Provincial fire duty officer Mark Lawlor says fire guards are being built along sides of the Kingston fire and Martin Lake fire. There are also two fires burning in Labrador.

A large wildfire on Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula has destroyed nine homes in the small town of Small Point-Adam’s Cove-Blackhead-Broad Cove.

Three ongoing fires in Newfoundland have forced hundreds of people to evacuate their communities and have destroyed an unknown number of structures. Two are on the Avalon Peninsula in the Conception Bay North area and to the south near Holyrood,