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About 16,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes, most of them about a 30-minute drive northwest of the port city's downtown.

"We're perhaps a little more likely to try to stick it out or maybe ignore warnings because we're not used to having to think about it."

For the second time in the past seven years, Danny Osborne has fled his home because of a ...

Sarah Lyon of the Nova Scotia SPCA says an eight-member team was preparing to head out into the evacuation zone to retrieve animals that were still in homes in the area.

HALIFAX - A rapidly spreading wildfire, fed by strong winds and tinder-dry woods, has destroyed homes and forced the evacuation of several suburban co...

HALIFAX - A rapidly spreading wildfire, fed by strong winds and tinder-dry woods, has damaged or destroyed dozens of homes and forced the evacuation o...

A rapidly spreading wildfire, fed by strong winds and tinder-dry woods, has damaged or destroyed dozens of homes in the region.

The Halifax deputy fire chief says an estimated 14,000 people were forced to flee their homes after the rapidly spreading fire broke out

Those evacuation orders apply to an area of approximately 75 square kilometres, within about a 30-minute drive of Halifax.

A wildfire that has consumed homes was burning out of control northwest of Halifax, Nova Scotia on Monday, Thousands of residences were under a mandatory evacuation order.