{"id":85929,"date":"2026-08-17T08:01:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=85929"},"modified":"2026-08-17T07:57:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:57:56","slug":"ne-forest-fire-region-update-august-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/17\/ne-forest-fire-region-update-august-16\/","title":{"rendered":"NE Forest Fire Region Update &#8211; August 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: August 16, 2026\u00a0at 6:00\u00a0p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (<abbr>EDT<\/abbr>)<\/p>\n<p>Two new wildland fires were confirmed in the Northeast Region today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ea7b564eff45a0b869b9d7fdf79d40d5c\"><strong>North Bay 37 (NOR037) <\/strong>is 0.1 of a hectare and located approximately 5 kilometres southwest of Emerald Lake and 7 kilometres west of Highway 805. The fire is under control.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ed4ed78a6f61231c1fbd302d7decf71c2\"><strong>Sudbury 61 (SUD061) <\/strong>was 0.1 of a hectare and located off the eastern shoreline of Round Lake, approximately 1 kilometre northwest of Wagon Trail and 2 kilometres south of Bolger Lake. The fire is now <strong>out<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are currently 45 active wildland fires in the Northeast Region. Of these fires: 1 is not under control, 2 are being held, 4 are under control and 38 are being observed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: August 16, 2026\u00a0at 6:00\u00a0p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) Two new wildland fires were confirmed in the Northeast Region today: North Bay 37 (NOR037) is 0.1 of a hectare and located approximately 5 kilometres southwest of Emerald Lake and 7 kilometres west of Highway 805. The fire is under control. Sudbury 61 (SUD061) was 0.1 &#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-85929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ner"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-24 10:00:55","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\/85929","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=85929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85931,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85929\/revisions\/85931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}