Residents of Labrador City were ordered to evacuate on Friday night after a day of what forestry officials described as 'extreme fire behaviour.'
A Quebec water bomber, shown here in this handout photo from June 20, 2024, sits at the Happy Valley-Goose Bay airport, ready to help battle wildfires in central Labrador. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Hunter WilsonThere was only one stop for gasoline for people fleeing a wildfire near Labrador City on Friday, and workers at Strickland's Auto and Gas in Churchill Falls pulled an all-nighter to keep it open.
Labrador City is home to about 7,450 people, and the town ordered them to head east to Happy Valley-Goose Bay, which is a six-hour drive along a remote, two-lane highway that cuts through the wilderness in the southern part of the region.Posts on social media showed people arriving in Happy-Valley-Goose Bay this morning after waiting in hours-long lineups heading into Churchill Falls in central Labrador, which is the only place to gas up along the way.
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