{"id":86197,"date":"2026-08-27T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=86197"},"modified":"2026-08-27T08:01:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:01:05","slug":"nw-forest-fire-region-update-august-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/nw-forest-fire-region-update-august-26\/","title":{"rendered":"NW Forest Fire Region Update &#8211; August 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: August 26,\u00a02026\u00a0at 6:01\u00a0p.m.\u202fCentral Daylight Time (<abbr>CDT<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<p>No new fires were confirmed in the Northwest Region by the early evening of Aug. 26.<\/p>\n<p>One fire was confirmed during the evening hours of Aug. 25, following the previous update.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e05e26ba96a9fa8a92f1acad918eece72\"><strong>Nipigon 106 (NIP106)<\/strong> is located east of Fitzpatrick Lake, approximately 58 kilometres south of Geraldton. The 0.1 hectare fire is not under control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the time of this update there are 63 active fires in the Northwest Region. Of these fires, 4 are not under control, 3 fires are being held, 12 fires are under control and 44 fires 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=\"e686617994751c2fcf15ba1a91b289448\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: August 26,\u00a02026\u00a0at 6:01\u00a0p.m.\u202fCentral Daylight Time (CDT). No new fires were confirmed in the Northwest Region by the early evening of Aug. 26. One fire was confirmed during the evening hours of Aug. 25, following the previous update. Nipigon 106 (NIP106) is located east of Fitzpatrick Lake, approximately 58 kilometres south of Geraldton. The 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":[3408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ner-forest-fire-updates"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-03 10:15:07","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\/86197","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=86197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86198,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86197\/revisions\/86198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}