{"id":86343,"date":"2026-09-01T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=86343"},"modified":"2026-09-01T07:43:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T11:43:45","slug":"nw-forest-fire-region-update-august-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/nw-forest-fire-region-update-august-31\/","title":{"rendered":"NW Forest Fire Region Update &#8211; August 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: August 31,\u00a02026\u00a0at 5:47\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. 31.<\/p>\n<p>There was 1\u00a0fire confirmed in the evening hours of Aug. 30, following the previous regional fire update.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"eb6fb0bed571668b2602ae58373c5d6f9\"><strong>Dryden 67\u00a0(DRY067) <\/strong>was located east of Suzanne Lake near Basket Lake Road, approximately 26\u00a0kilometres east of Dinorwic. The fire has been called out at 0.1\u00a0hectares.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the time of this update there are 57\u00a0active wildland fires in the Northwest Region. Among those fires, 3\u00a0are not under control, 3\u00a0fires are being held, 12\u00a0fires are under control and 39\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 31,\u00a02026\u00a0at 5:47\u00a0p.m.\u202fCentral Daylight Time (CDT). No new fires were confirmed in the Northwest Region by the early evening of Aug. 31. There was 1\u00a0fire confirmed in the evening hours of Aug. 30, following the previous regional fire update. Dryden 67\u00a0(DRY067) was located east of Suzanne Lake near Basket Lake Road, approximately 26\u00a0kilometres 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-86343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ner-forest-fire-updates"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-08 08:09:00","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\/86343","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=86343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86344,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86343\/revisions\/86344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}