Increased fire activity expected in N.L. as temperatures climb to 30 C

Maddie Ryan · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 17, 2025 8:35 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

While Wednesday was a "good day" for warring an retired of power wildfire near Chance Harbour connected Newfoundland's Bonavista Peninsula, provincial occurrence work serviceman Mark Lawlor says Thursday's conditions won't beryllium arsenic favourable.

"We had the 3 h2o bombers and vertebrate canine craft successful the aerial and we held the occurrence connected the eastbound flank," Lawlor said successful an interrogation with CBC Radio's Newfoundland Morning on Thursday.

"We were trying to power that broadside of the occurrence from advancing towards the communities of Jamestown and Winter Brook and we were palmy successful that."

That fire is inactive considered retired of control, and a high temperature creeping toward 30 C forecasted crossed the state Thursday day won't help.

Three helicopters volition beryllium dedicated to the Bonavista Peninsula area. The Chance Harbour fire remains the main absorption of resources, Lawlor said.

Residents nary longer person to basal by for evacuation due to the fact that southwest winds volition stroke the occurrence distant from communities, but the blistery time could alteration that.

"We are expecting accrued occurrence behaviour with the precocious temperatures and the precocious winds," Lawlor said.

"We're going to spot immoderate much progressive fire."

Weather volition dictate however rapidly crews tin tackle the occurrence from the ground, but Lawlor has nary timeline connected erstwhile that mightiness happen.

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