A water bomber provides a steady steam of water to assist crews on the ground at the Paddy’s Pond wildfire, just outside St. John’s, N.L., on Aug. 14, 2025. The Canadian Press/Paul Daly
Officials in Newfoundland and Labrador extended an evacuation alert Thursday evening, asking residents of a small coastal community to be ready to flee a wildfire that may have already destroyed up to 100 homes and structures.
As a precaution, the province asked residents of Job’s Cove, on Newfoundland’s Bay de Verde Peninsula, to be prepared to leave as a wildfire measuring more than 80 square kilometres roared nearby. The fire near Kingston, N.L., is the largest in the province and has forced about 3,000 others in the area out of their homes.
