{"id":74233,"date":"2025-06-02T07:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T11:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=74233"},"modified":"2026-01-03T12:41:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:41:34","slug":"northeast-forest-fire-region-update-june-2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/02\/northeast-forest-fire-region-update-june-2nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Northeast Forest Fire Region Update &#8211; June 2nd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-02-at-07.13.17.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-74234\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-02-at-07.13.17-292x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-02-at-07.13.17-292x300.png 292w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-02-at-07.13.17-585x600.png 585w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-02-at-07.13.17.png 684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/a>There was 1 new wildland fire confirmed in the Northeast Region today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cochrane 5<\/strong> (COC005) is 2.8 hectares and is located approximately 6 kilometres west of Hearst, next to Highway 11. The fire is not under control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are 3 active wildland fires in the Northeast Region; 1 is under control, and 2 are not under control.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The fire hazard varies from low to high across the Northeast Region.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_74242\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-02-at-07.29.51.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74242\" class=\"size-large wp-image-74242\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-02-at-07.29.51-600x401.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-02-at-07.29.51-600x401.png 600w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-02-at-07.29.51-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-02-at-07.29.51-768x514.png 768w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-02-at-07.29.51-1536x1027.png 1536w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-02-at-07.29.51-2048x1370.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-74242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map from https:\/\/cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca\/interactive-map<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-02-at-07.18.20.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-74241\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-02-at-07.18.20-300x233.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-02-at-07.18.20-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-02-at-07.18.20-600x466.png 600w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-02-at-07.18.20-768x597.png 768w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-02-at-07.18.20.png 1040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In the northwest region of the province, <span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">due to high to extreme forest fire hazard conditions, the <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">MNR<\/span><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"> has implemented another Restricted Fire Zone in<\/span><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"> the Northwest Region. Zones 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 are now under an RFZ (see map at right).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There are 12 active fires in the Northwest Region in various stages of control. The fire hazard is high to extreme across the majority of the Northwest Region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fires of note:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Red Lake 12 \u2013 Deer Lake First Nation<\/strong> at 17,988 hectares, Deer Lake First Nation has declared a full evacuation due to the Red Lake 12 fire<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nipigon 5<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 <strong>Webequie First Nation<\/strong> at 7,506.9 hectares, not under control, evacuation is beginning for <strong>Webequie First Nation<\/strong> residents<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kenora 20<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 <strong>Ingolf, Wabaseemoong at<\/strong> 35,151.7 hectares, not under control<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kenora 14 (KEN 014)<\/strong> &#8211; currently being held at 1,607 hectares, being held<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fort Frances 4 (FOR 004) &#8211; <\/strong>currently being held at 3,593 hectares, being held<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kenora 32 (Woodland Caribou Provincial Park)<\/strong> &#8211; at 7,716 hectares, not under control, evacuation order in place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was 1 new wildland fire confirmed in the Northeast Region today: Cochrane 5 (COC005) is 2.8 hectares and is located approximately 6 kilometres west of Hearst, next to Highway &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"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":[3338,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forest-fire-updates","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 00:02:58","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\/74233","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74233"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74244,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74233\/revisions\/74244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}