{"id":135301,"date":"2025-08-10T21:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/135301\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T21:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:21:11","slug":"new-wildfire-spreading-rapidly-in-outskirts-of-moncton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/135301\/","title":{"rendered":"New wildfire spreading rapidly in outskirts of Moncton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Firefighters from Moncton, Dieppe and Riverview are battling a new wildfire fire north of the Irishtown Nature Park near Moncton.<\/p>\n

The rural community of\u00a0Maple Hills, which includes Irishtown, has posted on its Facebook page that it is asking some residents to “take immediate steps to prepare for a possible evacuation.” There is no evacuation order yet, but they are urging people to have personal belongings and pets ready to go.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The areas most at risk, according to a map posted by the community are those between Cape Breton Road to the North, Weisner Road to the east, Elmwood Drive to the west and Roma Way to the south.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

As of 5\u00a0p.m. AT, the fire near McArthur Lane spanned\u00a030\u00a0hectares and was listed as\u00a0out of control, according to the provincial fire data dashboard. The fire was not listed earlier in the afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pictures show heavy smoke in the area and the Moncton Firefighters Association is asking people to stay away.<\/p>\n

\"AThe Municipality of Maple Hills posted a map on Facebook to alert residents in the area to be prepared for any evacuation orders. The map displays an area with the following boundaries: Cape Breton Road to the North, Weisner Road to the east, Elmwood Drive to the west and Roma Way to the south. (Maple Hills NB\/CBC)<\/p>\n

“Please avoid the area to allow safe access for emergency vehicles and water shuttle operations,” said the association on Facebook.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Near Miramichi, three homes and a cottage are under an evacuation order and another 15 homes are under an alert due to the wildfire burning on Oldfield Road.<\/p>\n

New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources spokesperson\u00a0Nick Brown said in an email that no one was home at the four properties when the evacuation order was issued.<\/p>\n

The province’s fire data dashboard says the Oldfield Road fire now spans 340 hectares.<\/p>\n

\"ANatural Resources Minister John Herron describes the fire near Miramichi to be out of control. (Jacques Poitras\/CBC)<\/p>\n

Brown said it is difficult to measure the exact size of the fire as smoke has lead to reduced visibility. The\u00a0fire was first detected on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“It did jump Highway 8 and burned about 20 hectares,” said Brown on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The section of Highway 8 between Route 450 and Oldfield Road remains closed.<\/p>\n

Miramichi Mayor Adam\u00a0Lordan said\u00a0the last update\u00a0he received on the fire, at approximately 1 p.m., showed it\u00a0was “moving in the opposite direction\u00a0of the city.”<\/p>\n

“Thankfully it’s not in an area close to any communities,” he said.<\/p>\n

Lordan said firefighters were patrolling the river to make sure no boaters were\u00a0in the way of the\u00a0water bombers, as they swooped down to refill. He said the City’s\u00a0Lord Beaverbrook Arena is offering a place for firefighters to stay, in partnership with the Red Cross.<\/p>\n

New Brunswick’s Natural Resources Minister John Herron\u00a0said at a news conference on Saturday the fire was “beyond control.”<\/p>\n

He said fire conditions are so extreme that “under the current environment it doesn’t matter what we throw at it.”<\/p>\n

The Oldfield Road fire is one of 12\u00a0fires burning\u00a0in the province,\u00a0according to the fire data dashboard.\u00a0A fire near\u00a0Canterbury in Carleton County was brought under control Sunday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"SmokeA fire in Carleton County, near Canterbury, spans about five hectares. (New Brunswick’s Department of Natural Resources)<\/p>\n

On Sunday morning, Brown said it spanned\u00a0about five hectares with 40 firefighters on scene.<\/p>\n

The dashboard says nine of the fires\u00a0are now being patrolled. According to Brown that is the final step before a\u00a0fire is considered extinguished.<\/p>\n

The New Brunswick government has banned access to all Crown land, restricting fishing, camping, hiking, driving into the woods or using the trail systems.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Camping is only allowed on campgrounds and the government has requested private landowners also comply with the restrictions.<\/p>\n

“Going back to data as far back as 1986, we have not had a drying situation as severe as we have today,” Herron said at Saturday’s announcement. “This is a serious situation.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters from Moncton, Dieppe and Riverview are battling a new wildfire fire north of the Irishtown Nature Park…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":135302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-135301","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\/115006569519230779","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135301","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=135301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}