Emergency crews in Kawartha Lakes are working to knock down a \u201csignificant forest fire\u201d in the Burnt River area.<\/p>\n
Officials say the fire has grown to 27 hectares since Friday and was \u201cactively burning\u201d as of Sunday evening.<\/p>\n
\u201cAerial water support, including water bombers, is scheduled to continue, targeting the most active fire zones,\u201d City officials wrote in a press release. \u201cTanker trucks are drawing water from local lakes to supplement firefighting efforts on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n
Authorities say the fire is burning in a heavily wooded area, where ice storm damage \u201chas left hazardous terrain that makes hose deployment especially challenging.\u201d<\/p>\n
No evacuation order has been issued at this time, but fire crews say they are monitoring the conditions closely and will provide another update on Monday, August 11, 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cResidents and visitors are urged to avoid the Burnt River area,\u201d officials said.<\/p>\n
A road closure is in effect on County Road 49 between County Road 121 and Bury\u2019s Green.<\/p>\n
Authorities say this is the third significant fire in the past week and extremely dry conditions are straining firefighting resources.<\/p>\n
A total fire ban is in effect across Kawartha Lakes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you see smoke, report it immediately to Kawartha Lakes Fire Rescue at 705-324-2191.\u201d officials said. \u201cDo not operate drones near active fire areas. This is illegal and poses serious risks to both aerial and ground crews.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency crews in Kawartha Lakes are working to knock down a \u201csignificant forest fire\u201d in the Burnt River…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-60166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}