SMALL POINT-ADAM’S COVE-BLACKHEAD-BROAD COVE — He has no official confirmation, but Luo Xu is certain his family’s evacuated home in eastern Newfoundland has been destroyed by wildfire.

On Saturday night, he watched live images from a security camera showing smoke and then flames filling the screen before going blank.

“I don’t think any words could ever be able to describe my feelings about watching our own house burning,” Xu said in an interview Monday.

At the time, there were seven active wildfires in the province – five in Newfoundland and two in Labrador. Of the four burning out of control, the fire that entered Western Bay was by far the largest. As of Saturday, about 3,000 people had been told to leave their homes.

Xu said it appears his home, which he shared with his wife and tw

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