The number of forest fires in Northeastern Ontario has been reduced to 39 as of Sunday evening.
Fourteen of the wildfires remain out of control and that includes North Bay 72.
This fire, which is in the Lady Evelyn cluster is a good news-bad news fire.
The good news is firefighters have been able to reduce its size by 304 hectares and it’s now 27,275 hectares large.
The fire is still not under control.
The bad news is firefighters expect the wildfire to become more active over the next several days as the ground starts to dry up from recent rain.
More Mexican firefighters have arrived and they are assigned to this fire.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry says the fires in this cluster as well as those in the River Valley, Pembroke and Parry Sound clusters remain priority sites.
The fires in the Temagami cluster are no longer consider priorities because firefighters now have the upper hand on them.
Parry Sound 33 has grown since the weekend from more than 7,600 hectares to 8,224.
This fire continues to see smoke drift on to Highway 69.
On the weekend the fire was seven kilometres from Highway 69 and as of Monday it is about six kilometres west from the roadway.
Water bombers and helicopters have been fighting this wildfire continuously as firefighters try to bring it under control.
Some residents in areas close to the fires in the Parry Sound cluster were evacuated last week.
As for the fires in the Pembroke cluster, which closed Highway 17 east of Mattawa for a time last weekend, firefighters continue to make progress.
Road restrictions remain in place to camps close to the fires and go to www.Ontario.ca/forestfire for details.
The northeast remains a Restricted Fire Zone.