{"id":57819,"date":"2025-08-18T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=57819"},"modified":"2025-08-18T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:30:00","slug":"long-lake-wildfires-more-than-3000-hectares-burned-fire-crosses-west-dalhousie-rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=57819","title":{"rendered":"Long Lake wildfires: More than 3,000 hectares burned; fire crosses West Dalhousie Rd."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56501&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ANNAPOLIS COUNTY:<\/strong> The wildfires in Annapolis County is estimated to have burnt more than 3,000 hectares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Department of Natural Resources on X (formerly Twitter), the Long Lake wildfires complex is still estimated at 3210 hectares. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has crossed the West Dalhousie Road near Fairns Road. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DNR said crews are making good progress on dozer guards around the flanks. There are still no reports of damage to homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56376&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On the ground there are 93 DNR, 22 Ontario, five PEI, and 49 local firefighters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Air resources on Monday evening Aug. 18 included four NWT planes, one contracted helicopter, and an air tanker group coming from New Brunswick to make a quick strike. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next update will be on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To follow updates, check out NS DNR on X at @NS_DNR. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56526&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56530&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANNAPOLIS COUNTY: The wildfires in Annapolis County is estimated to have burnt more than 3,000 hectares. According to the Department of Natural Resources on X (formerly Twitter), the Long Lake wildfires complex is still estimated at 3210 hectares. It has crossed the West Dalhousie Road near Fairns Road. DNR said crews are making good progress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[8676,1208,9006,48,4046],"class_list":["post-57819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-annapolis-county","tag-dnr","tag-long-lake","tag-n-s","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}