{"id":86272,"date":"2026-08-29T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=86272"},"modified":"2026-08-29T07:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T11:54:16","slug":"nw-forest-fire-region-update-august-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/nw-forest-fire-region-update-august-28\/","title":{"rendered":"NW Forest Fire Region Update &#8211; August 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: August 28,\u00a02026\u00a0at 6:00\u00a0p.m.\u202fCentral Daylight Time (<abbr>CDT<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<p>There were 3\u00a0new fires confirmed in the Northwest Region by the early evening of Aug. 28.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e75e770e93f62b5c263c83fc226d0814f\"><strong>Fort Frances 68\u00a0(FOR068)<\/strong> is located near Vickers Lake approximately 2\u00a0kilometres west of Highway 502. The fire is not under control at 0.2\u00a0hectares.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"efd4b4f5701e3e085031c841672c8eabe\"><strong>Dryden 64\u00a0(DRY064)<\/strong> is located near Nora Lake, approximately 28\u00a0kilometres southwest of Ignace. The 0.1\u00a0hectare-sized fire is not under control.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e3063bbe3463ff34a24303c97bbee4020\"><strong>Sioux Lookout 115\u00a0(SLK115)<\/strong> is located near Mount Lake, approximately 69\u00a0kilometres north of Sioux Lookout. The 0.2\u00a0hectare fire is not under control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the time of this update there are 59\u00a0active fires in the Northwest Region. Of those fires, 6\u00a0are not under control, 3\u00a0fires are being held, 12\u00a0fires are under control and 38\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=\"e686617994751c2fcf15ba1a91b289448\">Wildland fire activity across the Complex remains low.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e3f29c2978e288f3f1a0d576bc0d32fcd\">Firefighting crews, supported by helicopter bucketing operations, are focused on suppressing hotspots while demobilizing equipment as required.<\/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 28,\u00a02026\u00a0at 6:00\u00a0p.m.\u202fCentral Daylight Time (CDT). There were 3\u00a0new fires confirmed in the Northwest Region by the early evening of Aug. 28. Fort Frances 68\u00a0(FOR068) is located near Vickers Lake approximately 2\u00a0kilometres west of Highway 502. The fire is not under control at 0.2\u00a0hectares. Dryden 64\u00a0(DRY064) is located near Nora Lake, approximately 28\u00a0kilometres southwest &#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-86272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ner-forest-fire-updates"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-05 08:02:23","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\/86272","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=86272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86273,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86272\/revisions\/86273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}