{"id":85578,"date":"2026-08-04T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=85578"},"modified":"2026-08-04T00:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T04:04:00","slug":"nw-forest-fire-region-update-august-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/nw-forest-fire-region-update-august-3\/","title":{"rendered":"NW Forest Fire Region Update &#8211; August 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: August 3,\u00a02026\u00a0at 6:35\u00a0p.m.\u202fCentral Daylight Time (<abbr>CDT<\/abbr>)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_85586\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-03-at-23.58.13.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85586\" class=\"wp-image-85586 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-03-at-23.58.13-300x290.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-03-at-23.58.13-300x290.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-03-at-23.58.13-600x581.png 600w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-03-at-23.58.13-768x744.png 768w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-03-at-23.58.13.png 1318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-85586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for larger image.<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n       .errordiv { padding:10px; margin:10px; border: 1px solid #555555;color: #000000;background-color: #f8f8f8; width:500px; }#advanced_iframe {visibility:visible;opacity:1;vertical-align:top;}.ai-info-bottom-iframe { position: fixed; z-index: 10000; bottom:0; left: 0; margin: 0px; text-align: center; width: 100%; background-color: #ff9999; padding-left: 5px;padding-bottom: 5px; border-top: 1px solid #aaa } a.ai-bold {font-weight: bold;}#ai-layer-div-advanced_iframe p {height:100%;margin:0;padding:0}<\/style><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var ai_iframe_width_advanced_iframe = 0;var ai_iframe_height_advanced_iframe = 0;var aiOnloadScrollTop=\"true\";var aiShowDebug=false;\n\t\tif (typeof aiReadyCallbacks === 'undefined') {\n\t\t\tvar aiReadyCallbacks = [];\n\t\t} else if (!(aiReadyCallbacks instanceof Array)) {\n\t\t\tvar aiReadyCallbacks = [];\n\t\t}    function aiShowIframeId(id_iframe) { jQuery(\"#\"+id_iframe).css(\"visibility\", \"visible\");    }    function aiResizeIframeHeight(height) { aiResizeIframeHeight(height,advanced_iframe); }    function aiResizeIframeHeightId(height,width,id) {aiResizeIframeHeightById(id,height);}<\/script><iframe id=\"advanced_iframe\"  name=\"advanced_iframe\"  src=\"\/\/www.tinywebgallery.com\/blog\/advanced-iframe\"  width=\"100%\"  height=\"600\"  frameborder=\"0\"  border=\"0\"  allowtransparency=\"true\"  loading=\"lazy\"  style=\";border-width: 0px;;border: none;;width:100%;;height:600px;\" ><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var ifrm_advanced_iframe = document.getElementById(\"advanced_iframe\");var hiddenTabsDoneadvanced_iframe = false;\nfunction resizeCallbackadvanced_iframe() {}<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><p style=\"display:block !important; visibility:visible !important;margin: -18px 14px 0 0;padding-left: 3px;padding-top:3px;background: white; overflow: hidden; position: relative; line-height:15px;width: fit-content;\"><small style=\"display:block !important;visibility:visible !important\">powered by Advanced iFrame<\/small><\/p>There were 2\u00a0new wildland fires confirmed in the Northwest Region by the evening of August 3.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e41501edbf9438d7ca46ca663d8f9b090\"><strong>Nipigon 93 (NIP093) <\/strong>is located approximately 6 kilometres south of Kasibonika Lake First Nation. The 1.0-hectare fire is not under control.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e46250b88ede99d2c5c2a519d223e90ba\"><strong>Nipigon 94 (NIP094)<\/strong> is located approximately 10 kilometres west of Neskantaga First Nation, east of Kabania Lake. The 0.1-hectare fire is being held.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the time of this update there are 119 active wildland fires in the Northwest Region. Of those fires, 24 are not under control, 6 are being held, 7 are under control 82 are being observed. There have been 8 fires called out since the previous update.<\/p>\n<h3>Fires of note<\/h3>\n<p><strong>The Rinker Lake Complex &#8211; Thunder Bay 36 (THU036), Dryden 34 (DRY034), Dryden 35 (DRY035)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are 16 wildland firefighting crews from Ontario and Alberta, two 20-person crews of wildland firefighters from Mexico, heavy equipment operators, pilots, overhead staff from Ontario and Qu\u00e9bec, and an Incident Management Team assigned to the Rinker Lake Complex.<\/p>\n<p>Across these fires, firefighting crews are focused on establishing hoselines, patrolling for and extinguishing hot spots, and installing and maintaining values protection equipment. Heavy equipment operators are continuing to construct fire guards on portions of the THU036 perimeter.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e6195311637443b41c7c3a18ec9c84cd6\"><strong>THU036 <\/strong>is currently measuring 307,271 hectares and remains not under control.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ea02ece16d8c4c98e3ac8a9b907b5e3a9\"><strong>DRY034 <\/strong>is currently measuring 44,308 hectares and remains not under control.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e482ba1165cf3b0b6f54983ef5120522d\"><strong>DRY035 <\/strong>is currently measuring 31,510 hectares and remains not under control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Atikokan Cluster &#8211; Fort Frances 13 (FOR013), Fort Frances 14 (FOR014), Fort Frances 15 (FOR015), Fort Frances 38 (FOR038)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e810bc4a0be9d5e50d82fd420b8fca472\"><strong>FOR013 <\/strong>is located in the southeastern side of Quetico Provincial Park. The fire is not under control at 25,279 hectares. Operations staff are assessing priorities and opportunities to place crews in strategic locations on the fire\u2019s perimeter.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e9f164196c4b9760a4df025523b0afad2\"><strong>FOR014 <\/strong>and <strong>FOR015 <\/strong>have been exhibiting relatively low fire behaviour and have not grown or moved toward major travel corridors in recent weeks. FOR014 is currently measuring 51,768 hectares and remains not under control. Bucketing helicopters continue to support crews on the ground, working inward from the fire\u2019s perimeter to extinguish hotspots. FOR015 is currently measuring 42,273 hectares and remains not under control. Crews are continuing to patrol for hotspots and establish hoselines around the fire perimeter<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"eea86480f82526e2ee6b183dd0140b9dd\"><strong>FOR038<\/strong>, north of Crystal Lake has been called OUT at 44.2 hectares in size.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Dryden 36 \u2013 Upper and Lower Moosehide Lakes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The fire is being held at 1,710 hectares. Being held indicates that with currently committed resources, sufficient suppression action has been taken so that the fire is not likely to spread beyond existent or predetermined control boundaries under prevailing or forecasted conditions.\u00a0Ontario FireRangers, Type-2 crews, and firefighting crews from Mexico continue their hard work on ground suppression efforts, supported by bucketing helicopters. Low fire behaviour has observed in recent days under favourable weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highway 599\u00a0Cluster \u2013 Sioux Lookout 84 (SLK084), Sioux Lookout 86 (SLK086), Sioux Lookout 89 (SLK089)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There has been no fire recent growth observed on cluster of fires. There are currently 128 personnel assigned to the incident, supported by five helicopters.\u00a0Across all three fires, firefighters are using hand tools, pumps, and hose to extinguish remaining sources of heat. Helicopter bucketing operations were not required today due to the rainfall received this morning.\u00a0An infrared scan is planned for this evening for all three fires to detect and map remaining sources of heat, allowing fire operations staff to accurately locate and extinguish hotspots<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ebb767210e05210d677a7e014bfd21f34\"><strong>SLK084 <\/strong>is currently measuring 4,796.6 hectares and remains not under control.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ed0962bb56a6a916a743e459df1421487\"><strong>SLK086 <\/strong>is currently measuring 5,644 hectares and remains not under control.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e1129059cd6d6e0de12521239b959168c\"><strong>SLK089<\/strong> is currently measuring 7,190.1 hectares and remains not under control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: August 3,\u00a02026\u00a0at 6:35\u00a0p.m.\u202fCentral Daylight Time (CDT) There were 2\u00a0new wildland fires confirmed in the Northwest Region by the evening of August 3. Nipigon 93 (NIP093) is located approximately 6 kilometres south of Kasibonika Lake First Nation. The 1.0-hectare fire is not under control. Nipigon 94 (NIP094) is located approximately 10 kilometres west of Neskantaga &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":85586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ner-forest-fire-updates"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 09:57:48","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\/85578","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=85578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85587,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85578\/revisions\/85587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}