As wildfires burn around Nova Scotia and officials caution about the risk of more fires breaking out, community organizations and government departments are trying to get people living in the woods to leave.

Many, however, cannot be convinced.

"There's reluctance because it is home to some people … that's their comfort area," said Matthew Reid, the manager of Souls Harbour Rescue Mission's mobile outreach program.

Reid's team of six outreach workers travel around Halifax in vans, connecting with homeless people to offer food, clothing and other resources.

The outreach workers have an exemption from the provincewide ban on entering the woods so they can continue their work, which has taken on a new urgency in recent weeks.

"We try to educate as best we can to let them know that right n

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