hundreds of wildfires burning out of control in Canada and Newfoundland VIDEOS/ TRANSCRIPTS- Canada sees second-worst wildfire season • FRANCE 24 English
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huge fire devours Mount Underwood as 0:04 people in nearby Port Alurnie look on. 0:07 The city has declared a state of local 0:08 emergency in response to the fastmoving 0:11 blaze with an evacuation alert in effect 0:13 along with two other communities on 0:15 Vancouver Island on Canada's west coast. 0:18 I've lived in Port Royal Bernie since 0:19 1956 0:21 and this is the one of the biggest fires 0:23 we've ever seen in the valley. 0:26 In the space of 36 hours, the wildfire 0:29 burned more than500 hectares of woods in 0:32 what officials described as unusually 0:34 severe levels of fire behavior for the 0:36 region. At the other end of the country 0:39 on the Atlantic coast, outofcontrol 0:41 fires continue to rage near Halifax, 0:44 threatening the city of almost half a 0:45 million inhabitants. Local authorities 0:48 say 17 new blazes were reported just on 0:51 Wednesday. 0:52 It's going to be a long next few weeks. 0:57 There's no real rain in in the forecast. 0:59 Not certainly not in the orders of 1:00 magnitude that we would need in this 1:02 province. The province is a tinder box. 1:05 It's so easy for a fire to start right 1:08 now. 1:09 It's already Canada's second worst fire 1:11 season on record with about 7 1/2 1:13 million hectares of forest burnt about 1:16 the size of Ireland. More than 700 1:18 blazes are burning across the country 1:20 with more than 160 that are out of 1:23 control. In 2023, some 17.3 million 1:28 hectares were lost to wildfires in 1:30 Canada, an extraordinary toll that drew 1:32 global attention to the growing threats 1:34 of bush fires linked to climate change. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOCqojyvPwk
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"100 homes, structures possibly lost to Newfoundland's largest wildfire: premier"
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Mother Nature is giving us um a little
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bit of a break.
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As Newfaland and Labrador battles
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numerous outofc control wildfires,
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there's a little good news.
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But there's bad news, too, for residents
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affected by the province's largest fire
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in Conception Bay North. The fire has
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ballooned to more than 8,000 hectares
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and reached yet another coastal
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community.
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There's potentially up to or around a
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100 structures, 100 homes that have been
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lost due to the Kingston fire. A force
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fire in central Newfoundland has
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triggered an expanded evacuation
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advisory for cabin owners. And in St.
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John's, where the Patty's Pond fire
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forced a partial evacuation in the town
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of Paradise and put 20,000 others on
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evacuation alert, illegal fires are
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taking up precious time and resources.
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The St. John's Fire Department already
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busy enough with wildfire assistance.
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With everything that everyone is going
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through across the province, people are
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losing their homes and for someone to
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intentionally set a fire at a time when
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there's a lot of anxiety out there right
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now in the public. Um, it is
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frustrating.
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Police have charged a 20-year-old man.
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He allegedly set several grass fires
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downtown Tuesday night. He faces charges
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of arson with disregard of human life
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and three $50,000 fines. If you see
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something suspicious, if you see it,
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report it. Uh, don't resort to social
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media.
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In what's been a tense 12 days,
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complaints over the new ban on ATVs in
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wooded areas until at least Sunday today
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tested the patience of political
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leaders.
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For those who were on the phone
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yesterday,
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talking crap,
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talking crap to our staff, stop it. The
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public safety minister reminding
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residents this remains a state of
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crisis. And Donna, just to give you a
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sense of how many resources are engaged
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in battling the multiple wildfires
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throughout the province, the provincial
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government says there are 26
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firefighting aircraft in the air alone.
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Donna.
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All right, Heidi Petroic in Paradise,
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Newfoundland
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