According to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre<\/a>, the national preparedness level is currently\u00a0at a five on a five-point scale as of Wednesday. That means the potential for new, significant wildland fires is “high to extreme,” and the demand on firefighting agencies and their resources is high.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Mike\u00a0Montigny, manager of field services\u00a0with P.E.I.’s forests, fish and wildlife division, said this\u00a0province is experiencing\u00a0similar dry conditions as its neighbouring provinces.<\/p>\n “When we’re looking at our forecast, we’re not seeing a lot of precipitation coming into the… foreseeable future,” he said. “We’re aware of that and that’s why we’re looking at the data every single day.”<\/p>\n Montigny said provincial officials have been in talks about adding more\u00a0measures to prevent wildfires \u2014 including possibly restricting trail use as Nova Scotia did.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I completely understand why Nova Scotia has gone that way, and if and when those conditions are right for us here, absolutely that will be the recommendation\u00a0that’s made,” he said, adding that\u00a0officials are\u00a0looking at data to ensure\u00a0their decisions are backed by science.<\/p>\n The current restrictions on Nova Scotia’s\u00a0provincial\u00a0Crown land are in effect until Oct. 15, or until weather conditions allow them to be lifted. Violations could result in a $25,000 fine.<\/p>\n Many national parks in Nova Scotia have also been closed, which has impacted the province’s forestry and mining sectors.<\/p>\n Montigny said many of P.E.I.’s wildland firefighters\u00a0have had recent practice through deployments\u00a0to the Yukon<\/a>,\u00a0Saskatchewan and Manitoba<\/a>.<\/p>\n “We have staff on standby during the entire fire season,” he said. “We’ve been able to keep their skills sharp, so whenever we need them, they’re ready to go.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A ban on all types of outdoor burning is in effect across Prince Edward Island as of Wednesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":125804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-126095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114987022584885623","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mike-montigny-png.png\")
Mike Montigny, manager of field services with P.E.I.’s forests, fish and wildlife division, says the Island’s wildland firefighters are ready in case they’re needed in this province. (Zoom)<\/p>\n