The Quebec workers and business owners returning are not allowed to bring their children, since health service will not yet be operational
Residents of a northern Quebec town that has been under an evacuation order for the past two weeks due to forest fires are expected to be allowed home on Sunday, the town’s mayor said.
“Sunday, June 18, everything will be ready,” Lafrenière said. “The health centre will be ready, the grocery store will be ready, the dépanneur, the gas station, everything will be ready.” Forests Minister Maïté Blanchette Vézina said Friday that the flammability risk for the Lebel-sur-Quévillon area had risen overnight. However, officials said both the town and a nearby pulp mill – which had posed a concern because of chemicals stored there – are well protected by fire breaks and by the arrival of additional firefighters from the United States.
Lebel-sur-Quévillon, located 620 kilometres northwest of Montreal, is the last community that remains under a full evacuation order after unprecedentedforced more than 13,500 people across the province from their homes over the last two weeks.
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