{"id":84911,"date":"2026-07-17T09:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=84911"},"modified":"2026-07-17T09:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:22:14","slug":"ontario-forest-fires-july-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/ontario-forest-fires-july-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Forest Fires &#8211; July 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">We are continuing to respond to active wildland fires across the province. With new fires confirmed over the past 24 hours, there are currently 177 active fires. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Key updates on some fires of note in the Northwest Region:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Fort Frances 14 &amp; 15\u202f\u2013 were both remapped at 55,106.3 and 48,261.4 hectares.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Dryden 36 \u2013 Dryden 36 has now merged with Dryden 28. These fires will now be referred to as one fire and maintain fire number Dryden 36. It now measures 1762 hectares.\u202fAerial fire suppression continued yesterday.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Red Lake 23 \u2013 currently measures 106 hectares in size and is 2 km southwest of Macdowell Lake. Sioux Lookout 89\u202f- combined with two other fires yesterday and now measures 7944 hectares. Aerial fire suppression was on site yesterday afternoon.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Thunder Bay 51 &#8211; measures 15 hectares and is located 6 km north of Whitefish Lake. FireRangers continue to\u202festablish\u202fhose lines.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Thunder Bay 36\u202f- combined with three other fires yesterday, including the fire previously listed as Dryden 13. These four fires combined into one now measure 350,922.2 hectares. Operational planning is ongoing, and crews remain\u202ffocused on establishing a fire perimeter.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><strong>Key updates on some fires of note in the Northeast Region:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Wawa 17 \u2013\u202fis located northwest of\u202fCrocker Lake and measures 25 hectares. Aerial fire suppression is currently on the scene.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are continuing to respond to active wildland fires across the province. With new fires confirmed over the past 24 hours, there are currently 177 active fires. Key updates on some fires of note in the Northwest Region: Fort Frances 14 &amp; 15\u202f\u2013 were both remapped at 55,106.3 and 48,261.4 hectares. Dryden 36 \u2013 Dryden &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":84912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-firegen"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 11:31:07","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\/84911","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=84911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84913,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84911\/revisions\/84913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}