{"id":76398,"date":"2025-08-20T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=76398"},"modified":"2026-01-03T12:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:36:16","slug":"northeast-forest-fire-region-update-august-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/northeast-forest-fire-region-update-august-20th\/","title":{"rendered":"Northeast Forest Fire Region Update &#8211; August 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were two new wildland fires confirmed in the Northeast Region by the evening of August 19.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Haliburton 24 (HAL024) <\/strong>was 0.1 hectares in size and is now out. The fire was located 200 metres from the western shore of Frank Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wawa 7 (WAW007) <\/strong>is 0.5 hectares and located midway between Ruthie and Danny lakes. This fire is under control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Outside Fire Region 1 (OFR001) <\/strong>is 33.5 hectares and located approximately 200 metres west of Prospect Road, and 1 kilometre north of Eldon Station Road. This fire is now out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are 13 active fires in the Northeast region; 2 are under control and 11 are being observed.<\/p>\n<p>The fire hazard varies from low to high across the Northeast region. Kawartha Highlands is experiencing a high to extreme fire hazard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were two new wildland fires confirmed in the Northeast Region by the evening of August 19. Haliburton 24 (HAL024) was 0.1 hectares in size and is now out. The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-76398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forest-fire-updates","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 00:04:19","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\/76398","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=76398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76399,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76398\/revisions\/76399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}