{"id":134321,"date":"2025-08-10T12:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T12:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/134321\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T12:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T12:26:09","slug":"over-4000-hectares-burned-as-conception-bay-north-wildfire-worsens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/134321\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 4,000 Hectares Burned as Conception Bay North Wildfire Worsens"},"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\/kingston-western-bay-fire-aug-4.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Over 4,000 Hectares Burned as Conception Bay North Wildfire Worsens\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo submitted by Ed Harris)<\/p>\n<p>The weather yesterday in the Conception Bay North area created what officials described as a \u201cchallenging\u201d fire suppression effort, as the wildfire near Kingston grew to over 4,000 hectares.<\/p>\n<p>In a fire update yesterday evening, officials say firefighters were pulled from the blaze to make way for heavy smoke and other safety concerns forced crews to fight solely from above.<\/p>\n<p>More crews and aircraft from Quebec and Ontario will be on offer for Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in Holyrood, the fire had minimal growth through Saturday and is listed as \u201cbeing held,\u201d with helicopters dumping water on remaining hotspots.<\/p>\n<p>In Central, officials say residents should monitor for updates on the Bay d\u2019Espor Highway, as the efforts near Martin Lake focus on the northern edge of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>There was no reported growth through Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Further updates on all three fires are expected later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Photo submitted by Ed Harris) The weather yesterday in the Conception Bay North area created what officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":134322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-134321","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\/115004465679588364","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134321","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=134321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}