Overview

• Newfoundland’s Kingston wildfire remains classified Out of Control at an estimated 10,095 hectares, with crews reporting more than 10 millimetres of rain on the fire Tuesday morning.
• Low cloud grounded air tankers on the Kingston fire as 74 ground crew members from Newfoundland and Labrador, Ontario and British Columbia dug into hot spots, with helicopters staged to launch if ceilings improve.
• Nova Scotia’s Long Lake fire is now estimated at 8,026 hectares after advancing along both sides of Paradise Lake, where crews resumed building dozer guards with heavy equipment.
• More than 170 personnel, including volunteer firefighters and interprovincial wildland crews, and six helicopters were assigned to Long Lake as officials focused on structure protection and containment lines.
• Air quality warnings were issued for Annapolis County and special statements extended to Lunenburg, Halifax, Kings and Hants as smoke shifted with changing winds, following a weekend when Long Lake doubled in size under Hurricane Erin’s winds, high heat and low humidity.