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Update: Highways reopen, but fires spread across northwest
Crews in Baileyville work to bring a forest fire close to the Canada-U.S. border under containment. Image: Maine Forest Rangers/Facebook

Update: Highways reopen, but fires spread across northwest

Last Updated on May 16, 2026 5:21 pm

12 forest fires continue to burn near Kenora, Ignace, Fort Frances, and beyond.

The provincial Ministry of Natural Resources announced on Saturday afternoon that a fire near Ignace known as Dryden 11 has spread across more than 150 hectares and remains not under control.

Forest fires can be monitored via the provincial fire map.

Highways 599 and 617 are now open again, after being closed on Friday due to the forest fires.

Road closures can be monitored online.

This story may be updated as the situation changes.

  • Sam Goldstein is a 2025 graduate of the Seneca Polytechnic journalism program. Sam’s great passions are for history, politics, and food. Born and raised in Toronto, he works as a multimedia journalist in Thunder Bay. You can reach him at goldsteins@radioabl.ca.

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