{"id":86124,"date":"2026-08-25T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=86124"},"modified":"2026-08-25T07:46:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T11:46:41","slug":"nw-forest-fire-region-update-august-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/25\/nw-forest-fire-region-update-august-24\/","title":{"rendered":"NW Forest Fire Region Update &#8211; August 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: August 24,\u00a02026\u00a0at 6:16\u00a0p.m.\u202fCentral Daylight Time (<abbr>CDT<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<p>Two new fires were confirmed in the Northwest Region by the early evening of Aug. 24.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e526a478718617b35adf19f3afd0fc55f\"><strong>Nipigon 102\u00a0(NIP102<\/strong>) is located north of Sandridge Lake, approximately 24\u00a0kilometres north of Rossport. The 0.1\u00a0hectare fire is not under control.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ef28f220ad566a1e37bfb542596cd1202\"><strong>Nipigon 103\u00a0(NIP103)<\/strong> is located on an island on Attawapiskat Lake just east of Neskantaga First Nation. The 0.5\u00a0hectare fire is not under control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the time of this update there are 64\u00a0active wildland fires in the Northwest Region. Of those fires, 5\u00a0are not under control, 3\u00a0are being held, 12\u00a0fires are under control and 44\u00a0fires are being observed.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"fires-note\">Fires of note<\/h3>\n<p><strong>The Rinker Lake Complex &#8211; Thunder Bay 36\u00a0(THU036), Dryden 34\u00a0(DRY034), Dryden 35\u00a0(DRY035)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e193074aa7614e14c2eef305358f3492a\">Wildland fire activity across the Complex remains low.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e710c219ca909987a8bf84817a3043bb3\">Fire Operations staff and FireRangers from Ontario and Mexico are being supported by helicopters equipped with belly tanks and buckets.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ec31d73d3f4bc9b7ffd0401f0c01ffa76\"><strong>THU036<\/strong> is currently measuring 301,240\u00a0hectares and remains not under control.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ee828521e4c4939a92c48cf2221611483\"><strong>DRY034<\/strong> is currently measuring 45,800\u00a0hectares and remains not under control.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e25414e9a869e9d82cff59c54450d3609\"><strong>DRY035<\/strong> is currently measuring 30,158 \u00a0hectares and remains not under control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Atikokan Cluster &#8211; Fort Frances 13 (FOR013), Fort Frances 14 (FOR014), Fort Frances 15 (FOR015)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"effbcb692d6612d854eaaed657ef31f2f\"><strong>FOR014<\/strong> is currently measuring 51,768\u00a0hectares and is now being held.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"eadafddd3639bfc65452e86e3360ca0d7\"><strong>FOR015<\/strong> is currently measuring 42,273\u00a0hectares and is now being observed.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e8d6e91cd1493ca6146c807e1e9aa6ffa\">Low fire behaviour has been observed in recent days.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e1c5d11b65822716f24aabf5039a704fb\">Firefighters continue to extinguish hotspots identified through the most recent infrared scans.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e2c043f632a6aacb5e77f56dcaebe6e2e\">There are firefighters from Ontario and from Mexico assigned to the cluster.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e5939ebbc54c8ba2522ebdc8611bb6aa0\"><strong>FOR013<\/strong> is currently measuring 25,476\u00a0hectares and remains being observed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: August 24,\u00a02026\u00a0at 6:16\u00a0p.m.\u202fCentral Daylight Time (CDT). Two new fires were confirmed in the Northwest Region by the early evening of Aug. 24. Nipigon 102\u00a0(NIP102) is located north of Sandridge Lake, approximately 24\u00a0kilometres north of Rossport. The 0.1\u00a0hectare fire is not under control. Nipigon 103\u00a0(NIP103) is located on an island on Attawapiskat Lake just east &#8230;<\/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-86124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ner-forest-fire-updates"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-01 09:30:51","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\/86124","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=86124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86125,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86124\/revisions\/86125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}