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 inside the property in Western Bay 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.

There were eight active wildfires in the province on Monday — six in Newfoundland and two in Labrador.

One fire was burning just outside St. John's.

The Paddy's Pond fire, which started on Monday and measured roughly two square kilometres in size, triggered an evacuation alert for parts of the towns

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