A township in eastern Ontario issued a precautionary evacuation notice for residents near an active wildfire on Monday, as water bombers and crews battled dozens of fires in the northern regions of the province.
The wildfire burning around Centennial Lake, about 150 kilometres west of Ottawa, was one of the 21 new fire starts in Ontario since Sunday, said fire adviser Shayne McCool, with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry.
In a news release Monday, the township of Greater Madawaska listed four precautionary evacuation areas around the 48-hectare Centennial Lake fire, including a local tent and trailer park. It was not immediately clear how many residents were impacted, though the area is sparsely populated. A provincial water bomber was battling the fire amid favourable wind conditions and two other aircraft were expected to arrive shortly, the release said early Monday afternoon.
Meanwhile, officials in the northwest region of Ontario were keeping an eye on a wildfire north of the remote Cat Lake Fire Nation. Officials had assigned 12 crews and three helicopters to the roughly 9,300-hectare fire, which was burning away from the community.
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