Fire rages near Halifax: "Their house was already burning"
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The Challenges of Fighting a Rapid Fire in Nova Scotia
There's a finite number of firefighting pieces of apparatus that are available and they're stretched pretty thin. Yesterday was the hottest day of the year thus far. It's really really dry in the region and also we've had a couple of major hurricanes over the last few years which is just creating fuel for these things. So it's a combination of everything that created this massive fire and allowed it to move so quickly yesterday.
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