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⚠️ West Dalhousie / Long Lake Update: No changes in the size of 3210 hectares from this morning and yesterday’s update. Fire doesn’t appear to have grown since yesterday which is good news, but lots of work yet. More detailed post on my end later today, firefighters along with aircraft making some good progress. Sprinkler […]
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⚠️ West Dalhousie / Long Lake Wildfires: Department of Natural Resources along with volunteer firefighters remain on scene of the fire in West Dalhousie this morning. “Long Lake wildfire still out of control. New size estimate 807 hectares. Aircraft dropping water this morning include 2 contracted helicopters. Ground crews are 44 DNR, 5 fire crew […]
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⚠️ West Dalhousie Wildfires Update Friday: Long Lake fire in West Dalhousie still out of control. Size still estimated at 406 hectares throughout the day on Friday. Same air resources as yesterday. 33 DNR and 10 local firefighters on scene. Heavy equipment continuing fire barrier work. Hoyt Lake is still estimated at 1 hectare, this […]
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⚠️ Habourville Bridge Update: I’ve heard from Department of Public Works that the bridge is being paved today and the road is set to open end of day tomorrow! Kudos to the workers on site, it’s usually quite cool over at the shore but with our recent weather the temps over there have been quite […]
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Lovett Road between Highway 1 & Brooklyn Street is now open and freshly paved at the bridge following completed work. Detour signs are still up in a number of areas but crews will be working to take these down shortly. Adrian J.
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The Nova Scotia Department of Public Works bridge crew will be wrapping up work on Thursday morning in Brooklyn Corner. Lovett Road will re-open to traffic between Brooklyn Street and Highway 1 and the barricades and detours will be removed. Thank you everyone for your patience and understanding while this work has been completed. Information […]
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⚠️ UPDATED RELEASE: On May 10, RCMP officers, fire services, and EHS responded to a fatal two-vehicle collision on Highway 101 between Hantsport and Falmouth. At this time, based on physical evidence gathered at the scene, investigators believe that the Honda Civic was travelling in the opposite direction of traffic in the eastbound lanes when […]
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Many in the community have been reaching out and looking for updates about Esther Jones, the suspicious missing person case, which is now being treated as a homicide. This case is now in the courts and there have been different court appearances since charges were laid in September. Most have been standard with no real […]
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UPDATE: Missing man located deceased The 36-year-old man who was reported missing from Ellerhouse has been located deceased. At this time, the death is not believed to be suspicious in nature; however, the investigation is ongoing. Our thoughts are with the man’s loved ones at this difficult time. File #: 2024-1807064
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