{"id":87586,"date":"2026-10-27T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=87586"},"modified":"2026-10-27T08:05:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:05:37","slug":"nw-forest-fire-region-update-october-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/27\/nw-forest-fire-region-update-october-26\/","title":{"rendered":"NW Forest Fire Region Update &#8211; October 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: October 26, 2026\u00a0at 4:00\u00a0p.m.\u202fCentral Daylight Time (<abbr>CDT<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please note: The next update will be provided on Friday, October 30, 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three new fires were confirmed in the Northwest Region since the previous update on October 22.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ec25154d090512b3065c10d25961e4dbc\"><strong>Dryden 69 (DRY069)<\/strong> is located south of Eagle Lake near Bunyan Lake Road, approximately 17 kilometres west of Highway 502. The 0.1-hectare fire is under control.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ee9c0dc6ea1e71d1931dc82d6fd6660ed\"><strong>Sioux Lookout 118 (SLK118)<\/strong> is located near the southern shore of Misamikwash Lake, approximately 12 kilometres south of Kingfisher Lake. The 1.0-hectare fire is being observed.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ecf44b452ed96791727a8519b8999e5f2\"><strong>Thunder Bay 91 (THU091)<\/strong> was located east of Spirit Lake, approximately 2.5 kilometres west of Highway 527. The fire was called out at 0.1 hectares in size.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the time of this update there are 10\u00a0active fires in the Northwest Region. Of those fires, 5\u00a0are under control and 5\u00a0are being observed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: October 26, 2026\u00a0at 4:00\u00a0p.m.\u202fCentral Daylight Time (CDT). Please note: The next update will be provided on Friday, October 30, 2026. Three new fires were confirmed in the Northwest Region since the previous update on October 22. Dryden 69 (DRY069) is located south of Eagle Lake near Bunyan Lake Road, approximately 17 kilometres west of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3407],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ner"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87586","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=87586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87587,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87586\/revisions\/87587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}