{"id":86392,"date":"2026-09-03T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=86392"},"modified":"2026-09-03T08:02:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:02:47","slug":"nw-forest-fire-region-update-september-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/nw-forest-fire-region-update-september-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NW Forest Fire Region Update &#8211; September 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: September 2,\u00a02026\u00a0at 6:00\u00a0p.m.\u202fCentral Daylight Time (<abbr>CDT<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<p>Two new fires were confirmed in the Northwest Region by the evening of September 2.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e1f3a2933219209f63d0de763299930a9\"><strong>Kenora 35 (KEN035)<\/strong> is located north of Glorious Lake, approximately 2.5 kilometers southwest of Miller Lake. The 0.1-hectare fire is not under control.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"eba76a9c10ff90c4eea24f3ee9c6fe6e8\"><strong>Red Lake 28 (RED028) <\/strong>is located at the northeast end of Detour Lake, and southwest of Lee Lake. The 0.1-hectare fire is not under control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the time of this update there are 58\u00a0active wildland fires in the Northwest Region. Of those fires, 5\u00a0are not under control, 3\u00a0are being held, 12\u00a0are under control and 38\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=\"e9856d3724aa87645cf4180339eb03d19\">All 3\u00a0fires in the complex remain classified as \u201cnot under control\u201d, which can describe a wide spectrum of fire activity.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ec0bd98709b8b854f931ee36c4ec59fec\">Fire activity across the complex has remained on the lower end of the spectrum in recent days although smoke remains visible in some areas.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e2e2500f948c9363c2007841f9ae4e7c8\">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: September 2,\u00a02026\u00a0at 6:00\u00a0p.m.\u202fCentral Daylight Time (CDT). Two new fires were confirmed in the Northwest Region by the evening of September 2. Kenora 35 (KEN035) is located north of Glorious Lake, approximately 2.5 kilometers southwest of Miller Lake. The 0.1-hectare fire is not under control. Red Lake 28 (RED028) is located at the northeast end &#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-86392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ner-forest-fire-updates"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-10 10:31:23","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\/86392","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=86392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86393,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86392\/revisions\/86393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}