Forest fire situation update East Fire Region August 30, 2010 Two new fires were reported on August 29. North Bay 94, north of Temagami, was 0.1 hectares in size but has since been declared out. Wawa 32, a lightning fire north of Missinaibi Lake, is not under control at 0.4 hectares. On Saturday, [Read more]
Thanks to Simon of Guilletville, ON for this Letter to the Editor, it is a great example of the type of reader submissions OntarioNewsNorth.com is glad to publish. It is free of personal attacks, full of opinion and, references to polls are minimal (remember, OntarioNewsNorth.com does not endorse, [Read more]
This is the most recent report received, as of Aug.29-04:25 from the East Fire Region; to read Saturday, Aug.28th‘s report from the West Fire Region CLICK HERE Forest Fire Situation Update East Fire Region August 27, 2010 No new fires were reported on August 26. Two hundred staff will be [Read more]
Forest Fire Situation Update West Fire Region Saturday August 28, 2010 The forest fire hazard is high across northwestern Ontario. There is one new fire today in the West Fire Region. Thunder Bay Fire 60 is a small 0.1ha lightning caused fire burning on an island at Amik Lake north on hwy 527. All [Read more]
West Fire Region Thursday, August 19, 2010 There were no new fires reported in the West Fire Region by the evening of August 19. There were two new forest fires reported in the West Fire Region by day’s end August 18. Both fires were classed as human caused, located in the Nipigon District. [Read more]
West Fire Region Tuesday, August 17, 2010 There were no new fires reported in the West Fire Region by the evening of August 17. Four fires remain active in the far north. They are being monitored. Some Ontario fire fighting resources in British Columbia have reached the end of their 14 day tour of [Read more]
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Karina, I thoroughly enjoyed reading your articles and looking at the photos you published in Ontario News North. I was performing at the festival myself and didn’t have as many opportunities as I would have liked to watch and listen. I’m sure [Read more]
Letter to the Editor RE: Council meeting and garbage by-law petition On Wed, Aug 11, I brought the petition regarding updating and amending the garbage by-law and presented it to council. Although I was a bit nervous, many people showed up to support this topic. I was very pleased when the Mayor, [Read more]
East Fire Region August 12, 2010 One new fire was confirmed in the East Fire Region on Wednesday, August 11. Sudbury 148, north of Sudbury near Athlone Lake, is under control at 0.5 hectares. There are no issues anticipated. So far today, August 12, there has been one confirmed fire. North Bay 90, [Read more]
West Fire Region Wednesay, August 11, 2010 There were no new fires reported in the West Fire Region by the evening of August 11. Active fires continue to be monitored and no problems are anticipated. Ontario personnel in Saskatchewan are demobilizing resources and planning a return to Ontario. [Read more]
East Fire Region August 10, 2010 Three new fires were confirmed on August 9. Sault Ste. Marie 32, near Sand Bay, has been called out. Cochrane 35, south of the James Bay coast and ignited by lightning, was 0.1 hectares and has been called out. Algonquin Park 11, in the southwest area of the park, [Read more]
West Fire Region Tuesday, August 10, 2010 Thunder storms with heavy down pours of rain, high wind gusts and lots of lightning scattered over northwestern Ontario in the last 24hrs have dropped the forest fire hazard to low. The humid and hot weather experienced between down pours will continue. [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – Monday, August 9th, parents and grandparents who had been anticipating the opening of Just Kids, a used and new children’s store on Huron Walk finally got to shop the variety of clothing, toys, strollers and other items that owner Lisa Schut had collected. The store’s [Read more]
East Fire Region August 9, 2010 There were two new fires reported in the East Fire Region on August 8. Sault Ste. Marie 31, near Goulais, was 0.1 hectares in size. It has since been called out. Kirkland Lake 17, a 0.1 hectare fire, has also been called out. So far on August 9, two [Read more]
West Fire Region Monday, August 09, 2010 There was one new fire confirmed today located on the Deadhorse Road in the Nipigon District just west of Marathon. This fire is small at 0.1ha and the cause is lightning. One Incident Management Team departed from Dryden today bound Kamloops, British [Read more]
