A water bomber aircraft douses a wildfire close to homes near Western Bay, N.L., in this Wednesday, May 7, 2025, handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Eugene Howell
More people were packing up to flee their homes Thursday morning as wildfires raged in Newfoundland along the western shore of Conception Bay, about 45 kilometres northwest of St. John’s.
The flames had destroyed about a dozen homes since Wednesday afternoon, said Gerry Rogers, a resident of the amalgamated town of Small Point-Adam’s Cove-Blackhead-Broad Cove, N.L.
Rogers was emotional as she paced her home on Thursday morning, packing up her belongings to leave. She could see the flames creeping closer toward her house when she looked out the window, she said in an interview.
“To be somewhere where there’s a raging fire — a raging fire! — and you’re surrounded by water,” Rogers said, her voice catching. “It’s so ironic, you know? Because …