{"id":86284,"date":"2026-08-31T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=86284"},"modified":"2026-08-30T23:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T03:07:09","slug":"nw-forest-fire-region-update-august-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/nw-forest-fire-region-update-august-30\/","title":{"rendered":"NW Forest Fire Region Update &#8211; August 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: August 30,\u00a02026\u00a0at 5:38\u00a0p.m.\u202fCentral Daylight Time (<abbr>CDT<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<p>Two new wildland fires were confirmed in the Northwest Region by the early evening of Aug. 30.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e914eb0a308bd11d8ebdae3798752ef5f\"><strong>Kenora 34\u00a0(KEN034<\/strong>) is located on an island on Cameron Lake approximately 33\u00a0kilometres southeast of Sioux Narrows. The 0.1\u00a0hectare fire is not under control.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e0063f62b561d6000b2e6913e33cd9a78\"><strong>Dryden 66\u00a0(DRY066)<\/strong> is located near Brownie Lake in Blue Lake Provincial Park, approximately 7\u00a0kilometres west of the park\u2019s campground area. The 0.1\u00a0hectare fire is being held.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the time of this update there are 59\u00a0active fires in the Northwest Region. Among those fires, 4\u00a0are not under control, 4\u00a0are being held, 12\u00a0are under control and 39\u00a0are 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 30,\u00a02026\u00a0at 5:38\u00a0p.m.\u202fCentral Daylight Time (CDT). Two new wildland fires were confirmed in the Northwest Region by the early evening of Aug. 30. Kenora 34\u00a0(KEN034) is located on an island on Cameron Lake approximately 33\u00a0kilometres southeast of Sioux Narrows. The 0.1\u00a0hectare fire is not under control. Dryden 66\u00a0(DRY066) is located near Brownie Lake in &#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-86284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ner-forest-fire-updates"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-07 10:25:25","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\/86284","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=86284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86285,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86284\/revisions\/86285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}