The precarious financial situation of the evacuees from Lebel-sur-Quévillon | Wildfires 2023

About sixty people are staying there, while the meal was served to more than 120 people.

Other citizens had often taken refuge with friends or family.

Val d’Or Mayor Céline Brind’Amour confirmed that her administration had put everything in place to ensure the evacuees were taken care of.

We redeployed our entire team to go to the Emergency Reception Center. It’s about making the beds, organizing the meals and everything, like we did on June 2ndsays the mayor.

The fires do not necessarily threaten the city or infrastructure, but more so the access roads of Route 113.

The Lebel-sur-Quévillon fire has now spread to more than 400,000 hectares of forest.

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The mayor of Lebel-sur-Quévillon, Guy Lafrenière, is worried about his countrymen bearing the economic costs of the new eviction.

Guy Lafrenière is now asking the government for help because many citizens are at the end of the line.

Businesses need financial assistance, and among the citizens there are many who were in tears yesterday. They go abroad with $0 in their pockets, and some don’t have a car. Not all residents have worked for at least 3 weeks, so no one will work tomorrow morning. In addition to not being in your house, these financial problems, with rent comes the same way, all the payments we keep going…co-mayor Guy-Lafrenière.

Chaos overcomes several evacuees staying at the Fournier Sports Center in Val d’Or who await the help promised by the authorities. We are immigrants, we don’t get a salary, we don’t have anything, we don’t have anythingsays a foreign worker.

We are still waiting for unemployment. We have a family to feedanother continues.

A third says he is impatient for the promised help, which is late in arriving. Since June 2, we have been walking around everywhere, from all sides. The government has not sent us a penny. Some got it, but not everyone. There, he has already spent 1,000 piastres of gas. People have lost their jobs, they are no longer working, and their paychecks are no longer coming in.

The mayor of the municipality confirmed on Friday morning that citizens are entitled to a second payment of $1,500 in compensation. Since this is your second total eviction, you are eligible to apply for $1,500 a second time, he posted on social media.

Weather uncertainty

Environment Canada isn’t expecting rain until early next week.

The few rains expected for Saturday across the strip are expected to bring showers, but there is a risk of scattered thunderstorms as well. All this will not help the cause, because it will be very lonely, although it is still unsettling because of the lightning that can happen and the vegetation is very dry indeed.insists Jean-Philippe Begin, a meteorologist with Environment Canada.

We are most confident of receiving rain in the Outaouais, Pontiac and Témiscamingue sectors. […] We are a little less certain how far north this precipitation can extend. There’s really quite a bit of discrepancy when we look at the different evidence that we use to predict the weather, so it gives us a lower level of co-financing […] We know the fires are farther north so we don’t want to give too much hope either. We want to be realistic and talk science, so science tells us to avoid some embarrassment, there is still uncertaintySupports meteorology.

A column of smoke rose from the woods near the Belle River, in the sector of L’Abel-sur-Quevillon.

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In its daily update, SOPFEU indicates the current weather conditions It causes a very large drying of the vegetation cover, a situation that has significant effects on the activity of the existing fires, which in some cases recover their strength and progress significantly.

And to specify that the severity indicators will vary from very high to Maximum So Monday over a very large portion of the heavy protection area.