Another Quebec municipality was evacuated due to forest fires Friday evening. The 2,000 residents of Lebel-sur-Quévillon were called to leave their homes as a nearby blaze approached the community.
An evacuation alert deemed “extreme” in severity from Quebec’s Public Security Ministry came in at 9:56 p.m., hours after a first alert was published at around 5 p.m.
“We’re quite preoccupied by the situation in Lebel-sur-Quevillon,” said Stéphane Caron, a coordinator for SOPFEU, Quebec’s wildfire management agency. “The force of the fire keeps moving forward.”
The forest fire is situated about 30 km north of the municipality in Quebec’s Jamésie region and southwest of another
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