Despite searing heat, New Brunswick officials say firefighters have gotten ahead of a wildfire north of Moncton, in the Irishtown district of Maple Hills, where 1,500 people live.

Two wildfires are listed as out of control, according to the government’s fire watch, on Thursday morning. Two others that ...

A wildfire outside Moncton near Irishtown has been contained, and an evacuation advisory has been lifted, New Brunswick officials said.

On Wednesday, New Brunswick’s Fire Watch website listed the Old Field Road wildfire as being 1.358 hectares in size, up from the 1,120 hectares reported on Tuesday morning.

In a livestreamed event on the wildfires burning in New Brunswick, Premier Susan Holt and Natural Resources Minister John ...