{"id":8248,"date":"2025-06-23T14:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T14:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/8248\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T14:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T14:53:11","slug":"30-homes-remain-evacuated-with-wildfire-in-musquodoboit-harbour-n-s-being-held-halifax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/8248\/","title":{"rendered":"30 homes remain evacuated with wildfire in Musquodoboit Harbour, N.S. being held &#8211; Halifax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-byline__image\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"68\" width=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/author-placeholder.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy \tThe Staff<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted June 23, 2025 9:50 am\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>1 min read<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Nova Scotia officials says a wildfire near Musquodoboit Harbour is being held at about 0.3 square kilometres in size.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson with the Halifax Regional Municipality says about 30 homes near Ostrea Lake remain evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>RCMP began helping people leave their homes Sunday afternoon after issuing a statement about the wildfire.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Ad\u00e8le Poirier, with the Department of Natural Resources, says there are 20 firefighters on the scene, about 45 kilometres east of downtown Halifax.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11253379\/16-billion-passwords-stolen-protection-tips\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ef27b715a2e3088f4d16bbf28944f271ba9683b0bb7005fb6e3ef5c3da649cbd.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tSixteen billion passwords may have been stolen. 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