{"id":35454,"date":"2020-08-11T13:33:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T17:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=35454"},"modified":"2020-08-11T13:38:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T17:38:23","slug":"community-of-red-lake-evacuates-under-threat-of-forest-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/11\/community-of-red-lake-evacuates-under-threat-of-forest-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Community of Red Lake evacuates under Threat of Forest Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35455\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-11-at-1.18.40-PM-600x369.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-11-at-1.18.40-PM-600x369.png 600w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-11-at-1.18.40-PM-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-11-at-1.18.40-PM-768x472.png 768w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-11-at-1.18.40-PM-1536x944.png 1536w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-11-at-1.18.40-PM-150x92.png 150w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-11-at-1.18.40-PM-500x307.png 500w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-11-at-1.18.40-PM.png 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The community of Red Lake issued an evacuation order Monday night. This was to urge all vulnerable residents to leave immediately, and others to leave that evening as a forest fire (RED049) was threatening the hydro lines and main access to the community.\u00a0More than 4,000 people began to leave and were registering at the Township of Ear Falls or Dryden.<\/p>\n<p>RED049 began early evening Monday, August 10th, and grew to 550 hectares, not even 24 hours later.<\/p>\n<p>Eight flights were scheduled for later today (Tuesday, August 11) to make sure that all remaining residents were evacuated to Thunder Bay.\u00a0Anyone who hasn\u2019t left the community must report to the Cochenour Arena immediately.<\/p>\n<p>A state of emergency in conjunction with the MNRF has also been declared.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35456\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/red-lake-presser-443x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/red-lake-presser-443x600.jpg 443w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/red-lake-presser-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/red-lake-presser-768x1041.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/red-lake-presser-150x203.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/red-lake-presser-369x500.jpg 369w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/red-lake-presser.jpg 1027w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The community of Red Lake issued an evacuation order Monday night. This was to urge all vulnerable residents to leave immediately, and others to leave that evening as a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 09:38:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35454"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35461,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35454\/revisions\/35461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}