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Ontario has responded to a request made through CIFFC to provide a tanker package to support wildland firefighting efforts in Newfoundland & Labrador. The tanker package includes 2 CL415 waterbombers with a Birddog and Air Attack Officer.
Photo by AAO Carney McConnachie.
There was one new wildland fire confirmed in the Northeast Region by the evening of September 4.
- North Bay 20 (NOR020) is located approximately 3.0 kilometres southwest of the Highway 63 and Koko Lake Road Junction. The 0.5-hecatre fire is currently being held.
At the time of this update there are 3 active wildland fires in the Northeast Region. Of these fires, 2 are being held and 1 is under control.
Following widespread rainfall, the wildland fire hazard is low across the Northeast Region except for a small area of moderate hazard around Temiskaming Shores.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) is a government ministry of the Canadian province of Ontario that is responsible for Ontario’s provincial parks, forests, fisheries, wildlife, mineral aggregates and the Crown lands and waters that make up 87 per cent of the province. Its offices are divided into Northwestern, Northeastern and Southern Ontario regions with the main headquarters in Peterborough, Ontario.[1]
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