Chalets are evacuated in Fermont, on the North Shore, where a forest fire threatens the municipality.
Posted at 8:38 p.m.
The City issued a statement in the evening informing its residents that a “fire is currently raging near Lowball Lake”, to the south.
“The priorities of the Fire Department remain human lives [et] the evacuation of vacation cabins. The occupants of chalets along Lake Carheil will be evacuated.
Municipal authorities are asking residents for help in contacting anyone without means of communication who resides in this area. We also ask you to avoid driving on chemin du lac Carheil and on chemin Comstock.
“In the immediate future, the fire does not pose a threat to the population and the expected rainfall should help to mitigate it. We are monitoring the situation closely, ”the minister responsible for the region, Kateri Champagne Jourdain, said on Twitter.
According to the website of the Society for the Protection of Fires against Fire (SOPFEU), the fire threatening Fermont would cover 123.9 hectares.
This latest fire comes as the government announced its intention to lift evacuation orders one by one, within 24 to 48 hours, in several municipalities in northern Quebec affected by forest fires, if all goes well. .
