20900 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/forest-fire-update-1.6150029?cmp=rssRecent rainfall in northwestern Ontario has helped with suppression efforts on some of the region's largest forest fires, Aviation, Forest Fire and Emergency Services (AFFES) says. In the morning, there were 89 active fires and the fire hazard was mostly low to moderate, with some pockets of high....2021-08-23T18:16+0200CBC-4f437e8807c043dd2230604a69f2457120210823181600https://tol.org/client/article/ready-or-not.html“The government didn’t send firefighters, didn’t drop water on the area, and didn’t send a helicopter to pick us up,” she said. “All the houses in the area were burned, people’s animals died, our village burned down as we watched, all because of negligence. We were left to deal with it on our own.2021-08-23T17:49+0200tol-cb3bfbbcbd24d0d31b01e12673c3346220210823174900https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/forest-fire-update-1.6149310?cmp=rssNinety-two forest fires were burning in northwestern Ontario on Sunday morning, as Environment Canada again issued air quality statements for the Atikokan, Upsala and Quetico area. Aviation, Forest Fire and Emergency Services (AFFES) said the fire hazard throughout the region was mainly low to....2021-08-22T17:10+0200CBC-a528694d812e50492397848f6fd9aa4a20210822171000https://www.twincities.com/2021/08/21/boundary-waters-closed-for-a-week-due-to-wildfires-drought-and-resources/The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is closed to all visitors effective Saturday due to spreading wildfires, drought and limited resources, the Superior National Forest announced in a news release. The closure will be effective for seven days, but could be modified or extended.2021-08-22T00:18+0200twincities-52eb94941e08f890ea23f05acbad13c620210822001800