A wildfire on the outskirts of Halifax is prompting evacuations amid record-breaking temperatures in Atlantic Canada. A business park about a twenty-minute drive outside of the city is enveloped in smoke and fire crews are on scene attending to the blaze, which is estimated to be six hectares as of Tuesday afternoon.

The wildfire comes the week after a controversial move by the province’s premier, Tim Houston, to ban anyone from entering woodlands until Oct. 15 or until there is substantial rainfall, citing the significant wildfire risk in the province.

The region as a whole is seeing wildfires ramp up. The government of Newfoundland and Labrador issued a regional state of emergency on Tuesday afternoon for parts of St. John's, Paradise, and Conception Bay South, as a wildf

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