DRYDEN, Ont. — Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry firefighters are working to put out eight new forest fires in Northwestern Ontario. Four of the eight outbreaks reported Wednesday are in the ministry’s Thunder Bay fire district. They include a 15-hectare blaze near Dewey Lake, 45 kilometres northeast of Armstrong. The others in the district are near Wigwasan Lake, 38 kilometres southwest of Armstrong; near Mojikit Lake, 78 kilometres northeast of Armstrong; and near Return Lake, 100 kilometres northwest of Geraldton. The largest new fire among those that were reported Wednesday in Northwestern Ontario is in the MNRF’s Red Lake fire district.