Firefighters with Quebec’s forest fire prevention agency (SOPFEU) are battling a major forest fire northeast of Lac Saint-Jean. The fire has already raged across 58,000 hectares of land and is now headed toward Pipmuacan Reservoir, between the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean and Côte-Nord regions, where there are dozens of cottages, homes, and hunting and fishing camps. “It’s too early to assess the type of damage, how many cottages have been affected,” said SOPFEU spokesperson Mélanie Morin. “When we see a perimeter this big, it’s easy to jump to conclusions and think that everything within that perimeter has burned. It may not have.” The fire is also closing in on the Peribonka Hydro-Québec station, which serves nearly 85,000 customers across the province.