{"id":84982,"date":"2026-07-17T21:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T01:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=84982"},"modified":"2026-07-18T11:23:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:23:03","slug":"fort-frances-14-expanded-evacuation-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/fort-frances-14-expanded-evacuation-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Frances 14: Expanded Evacuation Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span id=\"timestamp\"><b>Jul 18, 2026 at 21:22<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 id=\"expanded-evac-fort-frances-14\">Updated MNR Report: July 17, 2026 at 8:00 p.m.\u202fCentral Daylight Time (CDT)<\/h4>\n<p>An expanded Evacuation Alert has been issued for areas within the Thunder Bay-Ignace District near the active wildland fire, Fort Frances 14. This is not an Evacuation Order. Residents in the newly identified alert areas are strongly encouraged to prepare for a possible evacuation and be ready to leave on short notice if conditions change.<\/p>\n<p>Please be advised that all areas included in the prior Evacuation Order remain under those orders and evacuation is still required<\/p>\n<p>This includes the following townships:<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Ames, Begin, Blackwell, Colliver, Conacher, Duckworth, Fallis, Gibbard, Goldie, Goodfellow, GTP Block 2, GTP Block 3, GTR Block 4, Hagey, Haines, Horne, Inwood, Joynt, Lamport, Langworthy, Laurie, Michener, Moss, Robson, Savanne, Soper, Stedman, Upsala, and Wardrope<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And all areas accessed by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e95deb27cb8da2bf75b5ec126086d6ce2\"><strong>Athelstane Road,\u00a0Bedivere Road, Boot Bay Road,\u00a0Brule Road,\u00a0Burchell Road,\u00a0Chief Peter Lake Road,\u00a0Connection Road,\u00a0Direct Road,\u00a0Dog River Road,\u00a0Drift Lake Road,\u00a0Fortes Lake Road,\u00a0Gold Creek Road,\u00a0Graham Road,\u00a0Haner Road,\u00a0Heart Lake Road,\u00a0Hoof Lake Road,\u00a0Lac Des Mille Lac Road,\u00a0Lily Lake Road,\u00a0Mine Road,\u00a0NeZaadiikaang Rd,\u00a0Numac Road,\u00a0Rounde Lake Road,\u00a0Sapawe Road,\u00a0Seine River Road,\u00a0Shabaqua Road,\u00a0Shelby Lake Road,\u00a0Sideen Rd,\u00a0Sideen Road,\u00a0Swamp Road, Township Road,\u00a0Wawiag North Road, Wawiag Road, and West Nelson Lake Road<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>All areas located on the following lakes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e6a759281791a4f4e4c84d09dc2047cbe\"><strong>Shebandowan Lakes,\u00a0Kashabowie Lake,\u00a0Burchell Lake,\u00a0Lac Des Milles Lacs,\u00a0Rudge Lake,\u00a0Brule Lake,\u00a0Baril Lake,\u00a0Lang Lake, Huronian Lake,\u00a0Peterkin Lake,\u00a0Athelstane,\u00a0Little Athelstane Lake, Bundy Lake,\u00a0Worthy Lake,\u00a0Milton Lake,\u00a0Moss Lake, and Rainbow Lake<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Please plan ahead and stay connected:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e5332012fc19e663dca318aea497d81a6\">Make sure you are aware of the current fire situation<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ebcce36003085b0376b0d9902cc64d26c\">Prepare an emergency bag with your essentials (medicine, passports, legal documents etc.)<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e0e7b4bc234a2d1a9eaa10171a0a180cb\">Monitor official channels for updates at ontario.ca\/fireupdates<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e817b2e2e47b5a31fe2f8b007ebf71454\">Be ready to quickly leave if instructed<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ee0b000bab2a78438b08c3b7f10cd52a6\">Respect evacuation orders, road closures and public officials&#8217; direction<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ee67b041a6f10d41dd269c75de3bd4833\">Give crews and aircraft ample space to work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>For more information on this evacuation alert, please call\u00a0<a href=\"tel:+18074751471\">807-475-1471<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 18, 2026 at 21:22 Updated MNR Report: July 17, 2026 at 8:00 p.m.\u202fCentral Daylight Time (CDT) An expanded Evacuation Alert has been issued for areas within the Thunder Bay-Ignace District near the active wildland fire, Fort Frances 14. This is not an Evacuation Order. Residents in the newly identified alert areas are strongly encouraged &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ner-forest-fire-updates"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-25 13:45:07","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\/84982","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=84982"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84985,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84982\/revisions\/84985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}