{"id":85575,"date":"2026-08-04T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=85575"},"modified":"2026-08-03T23:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T03:10:21","slug":"ne-forest-fire-region-update-august-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/ne-forest-fire-region-update-august-3\/","title":{"rendered":"NE Forest Fire Region Update &#8211; August 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: August 3, 2026\u00a0at 6:00\u00a0p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (<abbr>EDT<\/abbr>)<\/p>\n<p>Five new wildland fires were confirmed in the Northeast Region today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e2e49c2228bd7ce8e29f601cffedb2c47\"><strong>Cochrane 50 (COC050) <\/strong>is a 5 hectare fire located 27 kilometers east of Peawanuk. This fire is being observed.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e84445fed65b6140219c8d3a998e6c574\"><strong>Cochrane 51 (COC051) <\/strong>is a 320 hectare fire located approximately 20 kilometers northeast of the Opinnagau River. This fire is being observed.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ea1c730c3eac56c59c077cf0a8029cfa3\"><strong>Cochrane 52 (COC052) <\/strong>is a 40 hectare fire located approximately 4\u00a0kilometers south of the Matateto River. This fire is being observed.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ecaca47b23cd00c795a2a80f9ae3673cf\"><strong>Cochrane 53 (COC053) <\/strong>is a 400 hectare fire located approximately 4 kilometers east of Missisa Lake. This fire is being observed.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e9d39f75f9c4db0af996af0809e4d0393\"><strong>Cochrane 54 (COC054) <\/strong>is a 7 hectare fire located approximately 2 kilometers north of Wachi Creek. This fire is being observed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are currently 46 active wildland fires in the Northeast Region. Of these fires: 1 is being held, 6 are under control and 39 are being observed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: August 3, 2026\u00a0at 6:00\u00a0p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) Five new wildland fires were confirmed in the Northeast Region today: Cochrane 50 (COC050) is a 5 hectare fire located 27 kilometers east of Peawanuk. This fire is being observed. Cochrane 51 (COC051) is a 320 hectare fire located approximately 20 kilometers northeast of the Opinnagau &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3407],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ner"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 10:12:57","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\/85575","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=85575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85577,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85575\/revisions\/85577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}