{"id":84815,"date":"2026-07-15T21:19:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=84815"},"modified":"2026-07-15T21:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:20:20","slug":"northeast-forest-fire-update-july-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/northeast-forest-fire-update-july-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Northeast Forest Fire Update &#8211; July 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"timestamp\"><b>Jul 15, 2026 at 21:19<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Updated: July\u00a015, 2026\u00a0at 8:10\u00a0p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (<abbr>EDT<\/abbr>)<\/p>\n<p>Eight new wildland fires were confirmed in the Northeast Region today.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e5d8130c71a66d189abf06891569b7b25\"><strong>Wawa 17 (WAW017) <\/strong>is a 12 hectare fire and is not under control. It is located approximately 4 kilometers east of White Lake.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e26a2f9950119bb0230b3d41dacf66c6a\"><strong>Wawa 18 (WAW018) <\/strong>is a 0.1 hectare fire and is not under control. It is located approximately 500 meters west of White Lake.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e572d6f255b04c4b55e8b5e2e60ed50ba\"><strong>Wawa 19 (WAW019) <\/strong>is a 0.1 hectare fire located on the western shore of Loonskin Lake and is approximately 7 kilometres west of Hawk Junction. This fire is not under control.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e7e778de272f6c97329207ec0aa17eeb8\"><strong>Wawa 20 (WAW020) <\/strong>is 0.8 hectares and not under control. It is located approximately 6 kilometres southwest of Bishop Lake. This fire is not under control.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e48cdb92cda3f14a2dd4c9efb1535752e\"><strong>Haliburton 22 (HAL022) <\/strong>is 0.9 hectare fire located 1 kilometre west of McNulty Lake. This fire is not under control.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e96d1fd846c7aada0a5b06c8907186c53\"><strong>North Bay 26 (NOR026) <\/strong>is a 0.3 hectare fire and is not under control. It is located southeast of MacPherson Lake.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"eae2ab36134d83ff010316473c1341aaa\"><strong>Timmins 22 (TIM022)<\/strong> is 1 hectare in size and is located 4 kilometres southwest of Ant Island Lake. This fire is not under control.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ee2df29b92740b3f06be2f8927f8b3be7\"><strong>Cochrane 41 (COC041) <\/strong>is 1 hectares and is not under control. It is located near Wellington Creek south of Highway 11 and approximately 21 kilometres west of Smooth Rock Falls.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are currently 44 active wildland fires in the Northeast Region. Of these fires: 9 are not under control, 3 are being held, 4 are under control and 28 are being observed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 15, 2026 at 21:19 Updated: July\u00a015, 2026\u00a0at 8:10\u00a0p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) Eight new wildland fires were confirmed in the Northeast Region today. Wawa 17 (WAW017) is a 12 hectare fire and is not under control. It is located approximately 4 kilometers east of White Lake. Wawa 18 (WAW018) is a 0.1 hectare fire &#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-84815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forest-fire-updates"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-22 23:00:41","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\/84815","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=84815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84816,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84815\/revisions\/84816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}