A total of 89 fires have been reported in the Yukon this year. 43 were started by lightning since last Friday. Only 17 were still reported burning as of Monday noon.

The largest fires were reported in the Mayo area, 250 miles north of Whitehorse where 17 fires had been reported and only were still burning.

A 1000 acres blaze at Sullivan Lake was reported under control while a 1000 acre blaze at Rackla River and a 1000 acre fire at Seattle Creek were still being fought by forestry crews, retardant bornbers and helicopters.

A total of 550 men were fighting fires in the Yukon of which 300 men 350 men were concentrated in the Mayo area.

A forestry spokesman said none of the fires were located near communities.

The Dawson area reported four new fires over the weekend. All were termed small and ranged in size from one to 50 acres.

The Dawson area has reported total of 10 fires so far this year.

Fires in the Faro area were being mopped up today. The largest fire in that area was reported to be 360 acres.

No fires were reported burning in the Whitehorse area but thunder and lighting activity on Saturday afternoon caused a fire to break out across the river from the downtown area.

The fire was quickly extinguished by the Whitehorse City fire department and Yukon Forest Service crews.

A total of 24 fires have been reported in the Whitehorse area this year, none of which were reported burning today.

Thunder storm activity on Saturday afternoon also destroyed an unused power pole at the Whitehorse airport and knocked off the power supply to Porter Creek for two hours.

Thunder storm activity on Sunday night started a spot fire that was quickly extinguished on the Fish Lake Road and was attributed to tripping a disconnect switch at the Whitehorse Rapids Hydr-electric power plant.

Power to Carmacks, 100 miles north of Whitehorse and Faro 200 miles north of Whitehorse was disrupted for almost three hours because of the tripping.

Both communities were automatically switched to standby diesel power within 15 minutes of the outages.