{"id":60880,"date":"2023-05-27T18:48:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T22:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=60880"},"modified":"2023-05-27T18:57:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T22:57:36","slug":"forest-fire-slows-traffic-on-highway-17-depew-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/27\/forest-fire-slows-traffic-on-highway-17-depew-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest Fire slows traffic on Highway 17 (Depew River) &#8211; Hwy now OPEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>May 27, 2023 at 18:48<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The highway has been reopened.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>May 27, 2023 at 17:48<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Hwy 17 has been closed from Wawa to White River. Please drive with caution in that area, there may still be fire fighting activities underway.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>May 27, 2023 at 16:09<\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60883\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-27-at-4.10.03-PM-e1685218231232.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60883\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60883\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-27-at-4.10.03-PM-300x251.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MNRF is showing the fire at the Depew River Rest Area.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A forest fire at the Depew River has caused traffic delays and a closure notification by ON511 (WAW003). The fire is currently 1\/2 hectare in size, and MNRF is on site. The fire was reported begun at 2:36 this afternoon. The Depew River is approximately 9km southeast of White River.<\/p>\n<p>WAW002, northwest of White River is now at 32 hectares. It is located 3 kilometers west of Highway 17, just south of Kwinkwaga Ground Moraine Uplands. It was first discovered at 0.8 hectares Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"moz-extension:\/\/86e31345-88cb-4e07-bae4-272d394c2a47\/injectedPasswordless.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 27, 2023 at 18:48 The highway has been reopened. &nbsp; May 27, 2023 at 17:48 Hwy 17 has been closed from Wawa to White River. Please drive with caution in that area, there may still be fire fighting activities underway. &nbsp; May 27, 2023 at 16:09 A forest fire at the Depew River has &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 11:00:57","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\/60880","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=60880"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60897,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60880\/revisions\/60897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}