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The testing is necessary because the groundwater could be contaminated by residue from the fire, chemical fire retardants and fuel from ruptured tanks.
About 4,886 residents are still displaced from evacuation areas after a wildfire in the Tantallon and Hammonds Plains areas forced more than 16,400 people from their homes.
Members of the Canadian military, along with several American firefighters, arrived in Nova Scotia on Saturday to assist in the continued fight to contain several wildfires.
Waiting for a call to help fight fires in the neighbouring province of Nova Scotia, troops in New Brunswick trained on Saturday to fight wildfires.
An elementary school class in Dartmouth, N.S. is showing their appreciation through a project for the hundreds of firefighters responding to the province's wildfires.