{"id":85707,"date":"2026-08-08T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=85707"},"modified":"2026-08-08T08:40:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:40:53","slug":"ne-forest-fire-region-update-august-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/ne-forest-fire-region-update-august-7\/","title":{"rendered":"NE Forest Fire Region Update &#8211; August 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: August 7, 2026\u00a0at 6:30\u00a0p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (<abbr>EDT<\/abbr>)<\/p>\n<p>One new wildland fire was confirmed in the Northeast Region today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e62d5bcd4030eeba65830095def78292d\"><strong>Cochrane 55 (COC055) <\/strong>is 7 hectares and located approximately 3.2 kilometres southwest of Circle Lake, and 25.5 kilometres north of Lake Abitibi. Two FireRanger crews, two Twin Otters, two CL-415 waterbombers, and a Bird Dog have responded. The fire is not under control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There were 2 wildland fires confirmed yesterday evening in the Northeast Region after our update:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e736b49e04a6c8cdb94fb5b816d006578\"><strong>Timmins 24 (TIM024) <\/strong>is 0.7 of a hectare and located approximately 0.25 of a kilometre east of Highway 144, 0.35 of a kilometre east of Susanne Lake, and 0.55 of a kilometre southeast of Loucks Lake. The fire is being held.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"edc1c5566855b7fae5b160ccfd7c181d4\"><strong>Wawa 29 (WAW029\u00a0<\/strong>was 0.1 of a hectare and located approximately 1 kilometre northwest of Oganek Lake, and 3.8 kilometres northeast of Highway 17. The fire is <strong>out.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are currently 44 active wildland fires in the Northeast Region. Of these fires: 2 are not under control, 2 are being held, 2 are under control and 38 are being observed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: August 7, 2026\u00a0at 6:30\u00a0p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) One new wildland fire was confirmed in the Northeast Region today: Cochrane 55 (COC055) is 7 hectares and located approximately 3.2 kilometres southwest of Circle Lake, and 25.5 kilometres north of Lake Abitibi. Two FireRanger crews, two Twin Otters, two CL-415 waterbombers, and a Bird Dog &#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-85707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ner"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-15 09:25:20","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\/85707","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=85707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85708,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85707\/revisions\/85708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}