Rain helped with efforts to address a White Lake area wildfire.
While Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources is reporting that "Wawa 17" - which was reported last Wednesday, east of White Lake - is still not yet under control at 37.2 hectares in size, about 15 kilometres northeast of Pic Mobert, 4 FireRanger crews "remain committed" to the blaze, continuing to work to establish hoselines around the perimeter.
There are four other fires burning in the Wawa District: "Wawa 14", under control at 12.5 hectares in size, just east of Highway 17 and less than a kilometre southwest of O'Brien Lakes; "Wawa 15", not yet under control at 1 hectare in size, on the eastern shore of Lake Superior in Lake Superior Provincial Park, about a kilometre south of Laughing Brook Creek; "Wawa 21", under control at 2.3 hectares in size, about 13 kilometres south of Highway 11 on Mistake River; and "Wawa 28", not yet under control at 0.1 hectares, about 17 kilometres northeast of Missanabie, west of Missinaibi Provincial Park.
Restricted Fire Zones remain in place for most of the Northwest and a large swath of the Northeast, including from Marathon through White River, Dubreuilville, and Wawa, up to the border of the Sudbury District, but also including Timmins and points north - Chapleau is not included - the RFZ automatically imposed a fire ban, though multiple municipalities in the area have also put their own in place.