{"id":84989,"date":"2026-07-17T21:22:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T01:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=84989"},"modified":"2026-07-18T11:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:30:10","slug":"fort-frances-39-minnesotas-thumb-fire-evacuation-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/fort-frances-39-minnesotas-thumb-fire-evacuation-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Frances 39 &#038; Minnesota\u2019s \u2018Thumb Fire\u2019: Evacuation Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jul 17, 2026 at 21:22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Updated MNR Report: July 17, 2026 at 8:00 p.m.\u202fCentral Daylight Time (CDT)<\/p>\n<p>An evacuation alert has been issued by Dryden Fort Frances Atikokan District due to the evolving situation and increased fire behaviour of wildland Fire Fort Frances 39\u00a0and Minnesota\u2019s \u2018Thumb Fire\u2019. People residing or utilizing the area near the fires, located within Ontario, are strongly encouraged to prepare to evacuate on short notice.<\/p>\n<p>This includes all areas accessed by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ef814e825f0894e0d1fe2c772db8300c3\">Lagoon Road<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And all areas located on the following lakes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ed712c22c76359a6376a9b6cec6a8acac\">Blue Lake,\u00a0Cranberry Lake,\u00a0Lac La Croix,\u00a0Lilac Lake,\u00a0Loon Lake,\u00a0Queer Rock Lake,\u00a0Spring Lake,\u00a0Thompson Lake, and Trout Lake<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Please plan ahead and stay connected:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e7f261281e81aea2dfbb698edf1711fe2\">Make sure you are aware of the current fire situation<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e9b4e5e11e89936521fc07fd467dd33af\">Prepare an emergency bag with your essentials (medicine, passports, legal documents etc.)<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e70acd9e98844db3a766ff754eab3dc2d\">Monitor official channels for updates at ontario.ca\/fireupdates<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"eb0c37f1468802b966419234ba67bdb7f\">Be ready to quickly leave if instructed<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e179511d17986c3a8c5fba5ecd6ac043a\">Respect evacuation orders, road closures and public officials&#8217; direction<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ed90192ff7a4fe7d289e0134d1655e908\">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:+18072233341\">807-223-3341<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 17, 2026 at 21:22 Updated MNR Report: July 17, 2026 at 8:00 p.m.\u202fCentral Daylight Time (CDT) An evacuation alert has been issued by Dryden Fort Frances Atikokan District due to the evolving situation and increased fire behaviour of wildland Fire Fort Frances 39\u00a0and Minnesota\u2019s \u2018Thumb Fire\u2019. People residing or utilizing the area near the &#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-84989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ner-forest-fire-updates"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-25 15:30:00","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\/84989","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=84989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84990,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84989\/revisions\/84990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}