interactive fire map<\/a>.<\/p>\nFires of note<\/h3>\n
The Rinker Lake Complex – Thunder Bay 36 (THU036), Dryden 34 (DRY034), Dryden 35 (DRY035)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Wildland fire activity across the Complex remains low.<\/li>\n
- Twenty-nine FireRangers crews \u2013 made up of personnel from Alberta, Ontario, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, and Mexico.<\/li>\n
- Fourteen helicopters are dedicated to the Rinker Lake Complex.<\/li>\n
- FireRanger crews are now evenly divided between hotspot detection and suppression, and the demobilization of equipment that is no longer required.<\/li>\n
- THU036<\/strong> is currently measuring 301,240\u00a0hectares and remains not under control.<\/li>\n
- DRY034<\/strong> is currently measuring 45,800\u00a0hectares and remains not under control.<\/li>\n
- DRY035<\/strong> is currently measuring 30,088 \u00a0hectares and remains not under control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Atikokan Cluster – Fort Frances 13 (FOR013), Fort Frances 14 (FOR014), Fort Frances 15 (FOR015)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Low fire behaviour has been observed in recent days.<\/li>\n
- Firefighters continue to extinguish hotspots identified through the most recent infrared scans.<\/li>\n
- There are currently 124 personnel assigned to the complex including 83 firefighters from Ontario and Mexico, flight crews and engineers for 8 helicopters, overhead personnel, support staff and an Incident Management Team.<\/li>\n
- FOR013<\/strong> is currently measuring 25,476 \u00a0hectares and remains being observed.<\/li>\n
- FOR014<\/strong> is currently measuring 51,768\u00a0hectares and remains not under control.<\/li>\n
- FOR015<\/strong> is currently measuring 42,273\u00a0hectares and remains not under control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There were 2 new wildland fires confirmed in the Northwest Region by the evening of August 21. Thunder Bay 85 (THU085) is located southwest of McGaughey Lake, approximately 12 kilometers west of Highway 527. The 0.1-hectare fire is being held. Kenora 33 (KEN033) is located near Puzzle Bay on Ord Lake, approximately 17 kilometers east …<\/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-86076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ner-forest-fire-updates"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-29 10:53:11","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\/86076","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=86076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86077,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86076\/revisions\/86077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}