A township in eastern Ontario issued a precautionary evacuation notice for residents near an active wildfire on Monday, as water bombers and crews battled dozens of fires in the northern regions of the province.
The wildfire burning around Centennial Lake, about 150 kilometres west of Ottawa, was one of the 21 new fire starts in Ontario since Sunday, said fire adviser Shayne McCool, with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry.
The latest data indicated wildfires this season across Ontario had burned through around 31,000 hectares, or 310 square kilometres, an area about half the size of the City of Toronto and 3,000 hectares more than the 10-year average by this point in the season, he said….