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Fire doesn’t care about our Hollywood expectations.

Two Halifax firefighters are being honoured for driving through “a wall of fire” to rescue an elderly man during the wildfire evacuations.

An emergency alert was sent out in Nova Scotia on Friday to notify more residents that it was safe to return home, after wildfires forced at least 16,000 people to evacuate.

As about 4,000 people still await their return home, Halifax officials say more wildfire evacuation orders are expected to be lifted for residents on Thursday.

Two Halifax firefighters are being honoured for driving through "a wall of fire" to rescue an elderly man during the wildfire evacuations.

During a grim tour through through the most impacted area Tuesday, piles of charred rubble could be seen where houses once stood, with burned out cars parked in driveways.

Capitalist-induced climate change is dramatically increasing the intensity and extent of wildfires across the country, impacting remote rural communities as well as major urban centers and pushing Canada’s firefighting resources past their limits.

Despite the facility's main building burning in a fire last week, the Waegwoltic club remains resilient as it continues to focus on rebuilding.

A construction industry leader said in an interview on Wednesday that it may take up to three years to rebuild the homes lost in the fires, due to an existing provincial backlog.

Officials are hoping to take to the skies above blazes burning in southwestern Nova Scotia today to get a sense of the status of the largest wildfire in the province's history.