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Well, it depends where you are in the province. It's a huge province. So the fire hazard ranges from low to extreme. But there are a few new fires in northwest and northeastern Ontario that have developed over the past week. The largest fire right now still remains Red Lake and that one's the one northeast of Poplar Hill. That one is 30,602 hectares. It's been burning, smoldering, burning, smoldering up and down. There are no new evacuations at this point in time. However, there were evacuations previously. In the Coeur d'Alakes area, that fire is now under control. So for those that are in the greater Toronto area, the Coeur d'Alakes fire is a bit of an unusual fire. That one was near, that one was basically an hour away from Toronto. And it was a mix of, it was basically a hybrid fire. So at times it was a wildfire where it was, in its entirety it was a wildfire I should say. But it was a hybrid fire in that it was partially a forest fire as well as a more traditional wildfire like what you would see with brush, like a brush fire. So it varied between the two and that's because it was sort of on the interface where the agricultural land ends and the forested areas begin. So it was going through grass and shrub and also going into thick heavy forest and the area was impacted by an ice storm earlier in the year. So there was a lot of dead branches that were laying there. So the fire fuel indices were much higher because of all the accumulated dead wood in the area. Let me cycle it.