Mayor of Newfoundland town among volunteer firefighters missing work to battle wildfire
July 22, 2025
Volunteer firefighters are on the front lines of a roaring wildfire that has forced hundreds to flee their homes in rural Newfoundland, and some battling the flames are missing work to be there.
Jason Chaulk says he was supposed to fly on Monday for Saskatchewan, where he is a rotational worker at a mine.
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O ne day, I was leaving the church where I work when an angry woman stopped me. She threw a bag of garbage into the encampment in our yard and told me that a person had started sleeping in hers—and that I needed to tell her how she could find out who it was and make him go away. I suggested that she ask the person himself.
She stared at me and exclaimed, “But he takes drugs!”
“You can still ask him who he is,” I said.
And she stormed away up the street.
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