{"id":132230,"date":"2025-08-09T17:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T17:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/132230\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T17:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T17:15:11","slug":"fire-update-high-winds-a-concern-help-on-the-way-for-evacuees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/132230\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Update: High Winds a Concern, Help on the Way for Evacuees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/premier-john-hogan-fire-update-august-6-2025.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Fire Update: High Winds a Concern, Help on the Way for Evacuees\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Government of NL\/YouTube)<\/p>\n<p>The forest fire in Conception Bay North grew by only about 200 hectares since yesterday but winds are forecast to pick up this afternoon and tonight to 20-40 km\/h from the southwest \u2013 and that is a cause for concern in terms of fire behavior, says Premier John Hogan.<\/p>\n<p>The Holyrood fire and the one in central remain roughly the same size.<\/p>\n<p>The province\u2019s firefighting capacity has roughly doubled with the addition of outside resources including aircraft from Quebec and 20 firefighters from Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>There is a province-wide ban on outdoor fires but not everyone has been adhering to it, so Crime Stoppers is offering up some encouragement to people to refrain from such activity.<\/p>\n<p>The normal cap on a reward for a tip is $2,000 but anyone who provides information which leads to the arrest of a suspect is eligible for a reward of $5,000. Crime Stoppers says this is such a serious situation that a higher reward structure is justified.<\/p>\n<p>About 3,000 people have been evacuated from their communities, so the provincial government is offering each person a payment of $500 to help them through the crisis. The fund will be administered by the Red Cross and anyone who applies has to be registered with the relief organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Government of NL\/YouTube) The forest fire in Conception Bay North grew by only about 200 hectares since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":132231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-132230","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\/114999939798293929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132230","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=132230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}