DRYDEN — Ten new forest fires in Northwestern Ontario over the weekend brought the total number of active fires in the region to 52.
The Ministry of Natural Resources reports that one of the new outbreaks is an extension of a wildfire burning in Manitoba.
That province's EA061 fire has burned 278,000 hectares there, and 228 hectares in Ontario, as of Sunday evening.
It's located about 10 kilometres west of Bulging Lake in Woodland Caribou Provincial Park.
Among other new fires of note in the Northwest, a 394-hectare blaze is burning four kilometres northwest of Grist Lake in the MNR's Red Lake sector.
The ministry reports the wildland fire hazard is low to moderate in most of the region, except for along the Ontario-Manitoba border from the Rainy River area to Opasquia Provincial Park, 250 kilometres north of Red Lake, where the hazard is mainly high.
