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Fire - Red Flag warning today and tonight due to low relative humidity and gusty east-northeast winds. Winds will increase today after inversion lift. This should aid in clearing heavy, pooled smoke in the lower valleys and provide good visibility for air operations. The combination of gusty winds and dry conditions will also lead to more active fire behavior today. Smoke - Increasing winds today from a recent cold front passage. Winds will clear out much of the smoke in the forecast area but there will still be lingering smoke throughout the day. More active fire behavior on local fires could produce more smoke in communities closest to the fires. Smoke will settle back into the valleys in the evening but not as thick as yesterday. Overall air quality will improve for all forecast areas today and tomorrow. Other - An "Air Quality Alert" has been posted for the forecast area. Unhealthy air will be common in all forecast areas. Under these air quality conditions, children,...

Northwest Incident Management Team 6 Shawn Sheldon, Incident Commander Shane Theall, Deputy IC Watson Creek Fire Update Monday, August 20, 2018 As firefighters work in challenging terrain on the Watson Creek Fire, favorable wind conditions assisted firefighting efforts on Sunday night. Last night’s infrared flight over the fire shows it has grown to 25,788 acres. On the northwest side of the fire near Forest Road 29, commonly known as Government Harvey Road, crews have been holding and improving the line while also addressing hazardous snags in the area. Near Slide Lake and Withers Lake, the fire is holding. Fire spread is in the direction of McComb Butte near Forest Road 33. Crews will be scouting to strategize modes of attack. On the southwestern edge of the fire, dozer lines are still holding. The temperature today in the fire area will be in the 70s with relative humidity at 20-30%. Winds are forecasted to be out of the north to northeast most of the day...

Actualización del incendio Crescent Mountain 20 de agosto de 2018 @ 8:00 a.m. Reunión comunitaria: Methow Valley Community Center, en Twisp, martes 21 de agosto a las 6:30 p.m. Incendio Crescent Mountain: 23,764 acres; 34 por ciento de contención ● Personal: 454 ● Punto de origen: Aproximadamente 21 millas al oeste del pueblo Twisp ● Fecha de inicio: 29 de julio de 2018 ● Causa del incendio: rayo Incendio McLeod: 13,451 acres; cinco por ciento de contención ● Personal: 408 ● Punto de origen: Aproximadamente ocho millas al norte de Mazama ● Fecha de inicio: 11 de agosto de 2018 ● Causa del incendio: rayo Incendio Holman: 110 acres, sin contención · Punto de origen: Holman Peak · Fecha de inicio: 17 de agosto de 2018 · Causa: desconocida Actividad actual: Incendio Crescent Mountain: los bomberos continuaron en su lugar y monitoreando a lo largo del río Twisp entre Poplar Flat y Slate Lake. El fuego continúa desplazándose...

Actualización del incendio Crescent Mountain 20 de agosto de 2018 @ 8:00 a.m. Reunión comunitaria: Methow Valley Community Center, en Twisp, martes 21 de agosto a las 6:30 p.m. Incendio Crescent Mountain: 23,764 acres; 34 por ciento de contención ● Personal: 454 ● Punto de origen: Aproximadamente 21 millas al oeste del pueblo Twisp ● Fecha de inicio: 29 de julio de 2018 ● Causa del incendio: rayo Incendio McLeod: 13,451 acres; cinco por ciento de contención ● Personal: 408 ● Punto de origen: Aproximadamente ocho millas al norte de Mazama ● Fecha de inicio: 11 de agosto de 2018 ● Causa del incendio: rayo Incendio Holman: 110 acres, sin contención · Punto de origen: Holman Peak · Fecha de inicio: 17 de agosto de 2018 · Causa: desconocida Actividad actual: Incendio Crescent Mountain: los bomberos continuaron en su lugar y monitoreando a lo largo del río Twisp entre Poplar Flat y Slate Lake. El fuego continúa desplazándose...

Horns Mountain Fire Update August 20, 2018 10 am Northwest Interagency Incident Management Team 9 (NWIIMT9), Brian Goff, Incident Commander Fire Information: 505-302-5008 (GoogleVoice) or 218-244-2843 Email: HornsMountainInfo2018@gmail.com InciWeb: https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6138 Northeast Washington Fire Information https://www.facebook.com/newfireinfo/ NWCC Public Information Blog www.nwccinfo.blogspot.com NORTHPORT, WA – The Horns Mountain Fire is approximately 2,413 acres. Of those acres, 1,998 are in Washington and 415 in British Columbia. The fire is being managed under unified command between British Columbia Wildfire Services (BCWS) and Northwest Interagency Incident Management Team 9 (NW9). There are 434 personnel assigned to the fire, which includes those working with aircraft, engines, dozers, water tenders and various additional heavy equipment. This is a busy fire season. In the United States 27,407 firefighters and support staff are...

Community Meeting Natchez Fire Information & Update Tuesday, August 21, 2018 6:00 p.m. Happy Camp Grange 64501 2nd Street, Happy Camp, CA For further Natchez Fire information, please visit: https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5948/

Acres: 1,779 Containment: 41% Total Personnel: 127 Cause: Human-caused and under investigation Starting Tuesday, August 21, daily fire updates will only be posted as needed Hamma Hamma, WA – The Maple Fire remains within the identified containment lines and firefighters are monitoring growth along Jefferson Ridge as the wildfire continues to slowly creep to the west. The fire has not moved to the northeast or south but will continue to spread west. Crews will focus on holding and improving roads, rivers and creeks where the fire is currently held in check. The fire is expected to continue burning and emitting smoke until steady, seasonal rains extinguish it. Warm, dry and unstable conditions are forecast for several days with red flag warnings issued for Monday. Heavy, low level smoke is expected to move into the area again; however, onshore flows should lower temperatures and clear the smoke by Wednesday night. Cooler weather with some possible showers is forecast into next...

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Community Meeting: Methow Valley Community Center, in Twisp, Tuesday, Aug. 21 at 6:30 a.m. August 20, 2018 @ 8:00 a.m. Crescent Mountain Fire: 23,764 acres; 34 percent contained ● Personnel: 454 ● Point of Origin: Approximately 21 miles west of Twisp ● Start Date: July 29, 2018 ● Cause: Lightning McLeod Fire: 13,451 acres; five percent contained ● Personnel: 408 ● Point of Origin: Approximately eight miles north of Mazama ● Start Date: August 11, 2018 ● Cause: Lightning Holman Fire: 110 acres, no containment · Point of Origin: Holman Peak · Start Date: August 17, 2018 · Cause: Unknown Current Activity: Crescent Mountain Fire: Firefighters continued monitoring and holding along the Twisp River between Poplar Flat and Slate Lake. Fire continues creeping down Snowshoe Ridge toward Eagle Creek. Wind impacts were minimal last night on the whole fire. Today, crews will continue assessing the situation in the Eagle Creek area and the west part of...

Community Meeting: Methow Valley Community Center, in Twisp, Tuesday, Aug. 21 at 6:30 p.m. August 20, 2018 @ 8:00 a.m. Crescent Mountain Fire: 23,764 acres; 34 percent contained ● Personnel: 454 ● Point of Origin: Approximately 21 miles west of Twisp ● Start Date: July 29, 2018 ● Cause: Lightning McLeod Fire: 13,451 acres; five percent contained ● Personnel: 408 ● Point of Origin: Approximately eight miles north of Mazama ● Start Date: August 11, 2018 ● Cause: Lightning Holman Fire: 110 acres, no containment · Point of Origin: Holman Peak · Start Date: August 17, 2018 · Cause: Unknown Current Activity: Crescent Mountain Fire: Firefighters continued monitoring and holding along the Twisp River between Poplar Flat and Slate Lake. Fire continues creeping down Snowshoe Ridge toward Eagle Creek. Wind impacts were minimal last night on the whole fire. Today, crews will continue assessing the situation in the Eagle Creek area and the west part of...

Yesterday’s Activities: The Miles Fire is now 33,204 acres and 38 percent contained. Minimal fire growth has allowed crews to shift to more active areas, including Elkhorn Peak. The north end of the Miles Fire and the south side of the Columbus Fire continue to work their way through greener vegetation towards each other. Today’s Activities: Firefighters will continue mop up and patrol as needed along the southern half of the Miles Fire and the northern edge of the Columbus Fire. Hazardous trees (snags) will be removed along travel routes and where mop up activities will be taking place. Crews are monitoring fire behavior and fuel conditions in the gap between the two fires, where forest fuels have greater moisture content and fire movement is slow. Team Transition: On Monday, August 20, the Northern Rockies Incident Management Team (IMT) 2 transferred command to the Pacific Northwest Team (IMT) 2 led by Incident Commander Chris Schulte. Oregon Department of Forestry IMT 3...

Fire Red Flag warning today and tonight due to low relative humidity and gusty east-northeast winds. Winds will increase today after inversion lift. This should aid in clearing heavy, pooled smoke in the lower valleys and provide good visibility for air operations. The combination of gusty winds and dry conditions will also lead to more active fire behavior today. Smoke Increasing winds today from a recent cold front passage. Winds will clear out much of the smoke in the forecast area but there will still be lingering smoke throughout the day. More active fire behavior on local fires could produce more smoke in communities closest to the fires. Smoke will settle back into the valleys in the evening but not as thick as yesterday. Overall air quality will improve for all forecast areas today and tomorrow. Other An "Air Quality Alert" has been posted for the forecast area. Unhealthy air will be common in all forecast areas. Under these air quality...

8/20 Natchez Fire UpdateCommunity Meeting: There will be a Fire Information meeting at 6:00pm Tuesday evening, August 21, 2018 at the Grange in Happy Camp, CA. Weather: It will be partly cloudy, warm and dry with areas of smoke. SW to NW terrain-driven winds at 0 to 4 mph will prevail across the fire during the afternoon with winds continuing to shift northeasterly along ridges overnight. Ridgetop winds will be SW to NW at 3-7 mph with gusts up to 10 mph. An upper level low pressure system is predicted to move in Monday through Wednesday. There is a chance of a thunderstorm later in the week. Max temperatures are forecasted to be 82 to 92 degrees. Yesterday’s Activities: Patrol and mop-up occurred along the primary fireline from the South Fork Indian Creek to the southern tip of the fire. Low intensity hand firing continued to secure the primary fire line on the south part of the fire. Patrol and mop-up around the structures in this area also occurred. Fallers and heavy...

Acreage: 38,023 Containment: 35 percent Personnel: 1,070 A community fire information briefing is planned for 6:00 p.m. tonight at the Plain Community Church, 12565 Chapel Drive in Plain, Washington. Fire officials will provide information about operations, as well as current and projected fire behavior. Cougar Creek Fire: A change in prevailing winds pushed the fire in a southwesterly direction Saturday night and Sunday, leading to a Level 1 (BE READY) Advisory Notification for areas west of the Cougar Creek Fire. While smoke continues to be a major concern, and limits the use of aircraft in fighting fire, it did have a moderating effect on fire behavior and temperatures yesterday. On the eastern flank of the fire, crews continued with mop-up and structure protection. To the west, firefighters were actively engaged along the primary containment lines while continuing to construct and improve alternate and contingency lines. With today’s Red Flag Warning for ridgetop winds,...

Community Meetings Cave Junction - Monday, August 20, 6 p.m at Illinois Valley High School, 625 E River St., Cave Junction, OR Agness - Monday, August 20, 6 p.m. at the Agness Community Library, 3905 Cougar Lane. Agness, OR Gold Beach - Tuesday, August 21, 6 p.m. at the Curry County Fairgrounds in the Curry Showcase Building, 29392 Ellensburg Avenue, Gold Beach, OR Weather Today will be another critical fire weather day, with temperatures climbing into the 80s, relative humidities falling into the high teens to lower 20 percent range, and northeast wind gusts of 20 mph or higher in the afternoon. Taylor Creek Fire and Klondike Fire East The Alaska Incident Management Team is managing Taylor Creek Fire and Klondike Fire East. Firefighters working day and night have made progress, shown by a spike in containment on both fires today. Containment on the Taylor Creek Fire rose from 61 to 79 percent Sunday while containment on the Klondike Fire increased from 15 to 28...

Kettle Falls, WA - The Boyds Fire is located 3 miles west of Kettle Falls, WA. The footprint of the fire remains 3249 acres and is currently 49 percent contained. The fire continues to burn in grass, brush and timber. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Yesterday, crews continued burn operations along the west side of the fire line. Work completed over the last few days is being monitored through the night, with crews mopping up hot spots and flareups. Crews continued mopping up on the east side of the fire along Highway 20 and much of this area is in patrol status. Crews have continued to secure the containment line along Nancy Creek by installing hose lays and sprinklers. Today, crews will continue prepping an indirect firing line along the western edge of the fire. Masticators, excavators, feller bunchers and other heavy equipment will be used to strengthen containment lines. These lines will be tested throughout the day by dry, northeasterly winds. Preparations are...

We continue our efforts to “right size” the resources assigned to the Kettle River Fire. During wildfires such as the Kettle River Fire, agency administrators and incident managers make choices to minimize the risk and focus on areas where firefighters can be the most effective. In keeping with that theme, many of the resources have been re-assigned to fires where there is a greater need such as the Tillman Surprise Fire near Loomis, WA. Many of the homeowners and citizens in this community have asked what they can do to help firefighters deal with wildland fires. The biggest help you can give a firefighter is to create a defensible space around your home or other structures. Taking individual responsibility to reduce flammable materials around homes and communities before a fire occurs can help the public and firefighters be safe. Although we understand that there is an inherent risk to what we do as firefighters, no human life is worth a home or structure; we will not put...

Public Meetings:Cave Junction - Monday, August 20, 6 p.m at Illinois Valley High School, 625 E River St., Cave Junction, OR Agness - Monday, August 20, 6 p.m. at the Agness Community Library, 3905 Cougar Lane. Agness, OR Gold Beach - Tuesday, August 21, 6 p.m. at the Curry County Fairgrounds in the Curry Showcase Building, 29392 Ellensburg Avenue, Gold Beach, OR Weather Today will be another critical fire weather day, with temperatures climbing into the 80s, relative humidities falling into the high teens to lower 20 percent range, and northeast wind gusts of 20 mph or higher in the afternoon. Taylor Creek Fire and Klondike Fire East The Alaska Incident Management Team is managing Taylor Creek Fire and Klondike Fire East. Firefighters working day and night have made progress, shown by a spike in containment on both fires today. Containment on the Taylor Creek Fire rose from 61 to 79 percent Sunday while containment on the Klondike Fire increased from 15 to 28...

Miriam Fire Update Fire Information Line: 360-481-0031 August 20, 2018 – 9 a.m. Acres: Miriam Fire – 3,146; Clear Fork Fire - 20 Percent Containment: 30% Start Date: 07/30/18 Personnel/Resources: 1-Type 2 IA hand crew, 3-Type 2 hand crews, 2-camp crews, 1-heavy lift helicopter, 1-medium lift helicopter, 1-light lift helicopter, 14-engines, 1-dozer, 8-water tenders, 2-masticators and 1-forwarder processor for 323 total personnel. Resources are being demobilized after the standard fire assignment length of 14 operational periods. Fire managers are concerned with the amount of large, active wildfires in Oregon and Washington, replacement resources maybe difficult to obtain. It is a critical time in the fire season where limited resources must be shared throughout the region. Location: Two miles east of White Pass Ski Area, within the Goat Rocks Wilderness on the Naches Ranger District, 13 miles east of Packwood, WA. Cause: Lightning Values at Risk: White Pass area and ski resort;...