{"id":83591,"date":"2026-06-01T12:21:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=83591"},"modified":"2026-06-01T12:21:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:21:40","slug":"northeast-forest-fire-region-update-may-31-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/northeast-forest-fire-region-update-may-31-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Northeast Forest Fire Region Update &#8211; May 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Northeast Region:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the time of this update, there are 6 active wildland fires in the Northeast Region. Of those fires, 2 is not under control, 1 are being held, and 3 are under control.<\/p>\n<p>There were 2 wildland fires confirmed in the Northeast Region today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cochrane 4 (COC004) <\/strong>was 0.2 of a hectare and is located approximately 0.25 of a kilometre north of Highway 11 and 0.3 of a kilometre west of Fontaine Drive, on the west side of Hearst. The fire is now out.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Timmins 9 (TIM009) <\/strong>is 350 hectares and is located approximately 1.4 kilometres east of Bell Lake and 8.8 kilometres west of Highway 144. The fire is not under control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There were 2 new fires confirmed after the update last night:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Haliburton 17 (HAL017) <\/strong>was 0.4 of a hectare and is located approximately 3.3 kilometers east of Fosters Lake, along the northern end of Havergal Road. The fire is now out.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Haliburton 18 (HAL018) <\/strong>was 0.1 of a hectare and located approximately 0.5 of a kilometer north of Highway 60, 1.2 kilometers southwest of Brotton Road. The fire is now out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Northwest Region:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the time of this update there are 10 active wildland fires in the Northwest Region. Of those fires, 4 are not under control, 2 are being held, 2 are under control and 2 are being observed.<\/p>\n<p>Seven new wildland fires were confirmed in the Northwest Region by the evening of May 31.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Red Lake 4 (RED004) <\/strong>is located approximately 20.0 kilometres southwest of McIntosh Bay and 10.0 kilometres northwest of Apps Lake. The 0.1-hectare fire is not under control.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Red Lake 5 (RED005) <\/strong>is located in North Spirit Lake First Nation, approximately 0.6 kilometres south of the North Spirit Lake-Sandy Lake Winter Road landing. The 0.3-hectare fire is not under control.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fort Frances 9 (FOR009) <\/strong>is located approximately 1.3 kilometres south of Crooked Pine Lake Road, near Sawmill Lake. The 0.5-hectare fire is currently being held.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kenora 12 (KEN012) <\/strong>is located approximately 3.0 kilometres south of Sioux Narrows, near Fickas Road. The 0.5-hecatre fire is currently being held.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dryden 13 (DRY013) <\/strong>is in the south end of Wabakimi Provincial Park, approximately 19.0 kilometres east of Allanwater Bridge. The 5.0-hectare fire is not under control.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dryden 14 (DRY014) <\/strong>is located approximately 19.0 kilometres west of Vermilion Bay, on the south side of Highway 17. The 0.8-hectare fire is under control.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thunder Bay 17 (THU017) <\/strong>is located approximately 4.5 kilometres west of Highway 527, on the southeast side of Smiley Lake. The 2.5-hectare fire is not under control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northeast Region: At the time of this update, there are 6 active wildland fires in the Northeast Region. Of those fires, 2 is not under control, 1 are being held, and 3 are under control. There were 2 wildland fires confirmed in the Northeast Region today: Cochrane 4 (COC004) was 0.2 of a hectare and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forest-fire-updates"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 14:11:45","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\/83591","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83593,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83591\/revisions\/83593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}