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Dufur, OR – Current Status: Last night the fire perimeter was patrolled by a strike team of engines. They utilized handheld infra-red cameras to scour the landscape along the perimeter of the fire for any threatening hot spots. Infra–red cameras are used to reveal heat sources buried deep in the ground. Upon discovery, the spots are flagged for the night crews to work on and the next day shift to double check and completely extinguish. This is the pick and shovel work that is necessary to keep the fire from rekindling later this summer. Today, crews will continue mopping-up all smokes within 150 feet of structures located within and adjacent to the fire. Fallers are working to fall all dangerous trees within 300 feet of the fire line for safety and to prevent spotting out-side the fire perimeter. Other crews will be tasked with bringing in excess equipment and hose from the fire line to be returned to the Redmond Fire Cache and made available to other incidents. A heat wave is...

Crescent Mountain and Gilbert FiresCrescent Mountain and Gilbert Fires (August 7, 2018 10:00 a.m.)● Crescent Mountain Fire: 7,671 acres (0% contained)● Gilbert Fire: 38 acres● Personnel: 330● Location: Headwaters of the Twisp River● Start Date: July 28, 2018● Cause: LightningA public meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, August 8, at the Methow Valley Community Center in TwispCurrent Activity: Fire activity increased yesterday with the Crescent Fire pushing south of Williams Creek and northeast toward Abernathy Peak. The Gilbert Fire is exhibiting no fire activity with little smoke observed. Firefighters are working to widen existing roads utilizing heavy equipment, evaluating ingress and egress routes, and preparing around homes and other structures. The fire edge is currently 3.9 miles from the closest structure in the Twisp River drainage.Fire Size: To date, the fire size has been an estimate. An accurate number has been difficult to obtain due to the steepness...

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Acerage: 41,103 Containment: 38%Pacific Northwest Team 2 and Oregon State Fire Marshal Red Team have assumed command of the Klondike Fire. Combining resources from Taylor Creek and Klondike will streamline fire managers’ efforts to fight both fires and provide structure protection. This will improve efficiencies and enhance firefighter and public safety. The continued inversion provided crews with favorable firefighting conditions. As a result, fire continues to slowly back toward Galice Creek Road and Bear Camp Road. The established line between the Galice Community Center and Galice Creek is being held and reinforced. Crews from the Oregon State Fire Marshal’s office continue to monitor and provide structure protection in these areas. Construction of the contingency line along Peavine Road is progressing. Heavy equipment and crews steadily remove vegetation and are reinforcing this line. Firing operations conducted by Taylor Creek and Klondike firefighters have nearly...

Fire Information: 541-474-5305, 7:00 am – 10:00 pm Inciweb: https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5998/ Pacific Northwest Team 2 and Oregon State Fire Marshal are managing Taylor Creek Fire and Klondike Fire, effective 0600 today. Northern Rockies Incident Management Team 1 is managing the Natchez Fire. Yesterday’s Activities: On the fire’s eastern flank, weather conditions hampered aerial firing operations, though ground crews continued to make progress. Their firing operations progressed northward toward the Taylor Creek Fire. Crews continued to patrol, mop-up and monitor firing operations on the primary containment line on the southeast side of the fire. Structure protection continued in the Briggs and Illinois Valleys, and Oak Flat in Josephine County. Today’s Activities: Firing operations will continue along the east side of the fire, using aerial ignitions when conditions allow. This action provides a buffer by reducing fire intensity and fuels ahead of the main...

Hamma Hamma, WA – The Maple fire is located west of Highway 101, northwest of Hamma Hamma. The fire is burning in heavy timber, 200ft trees, mature cedar spruce fir trees. Elk Lake trail runs through the middle of the fire and Jefferson Creek runs at the bottom of the fire. The fire is in a remote location and steep terrain. Resources have been ordered but due to a busy fire season, resources are in high demand across the region. Participating agencies in fighting this wildfire include the Olympic National Forest and Washington State Department of Natural Resources. Western Washington Incident Management Team (WWIMT) led by Kent Stanford, Incident Commander, assumed command of the Maple fire on August 6 at 6:00 pm. A Type 2 team was ordered on Monday and will be arriving mid-day Tuesday. The Type 2 team will be assuming command of the fire on Wednesday. The Maple fire has burned 247 acres, is 5 percent contained and has roughly 80 personnel currently working the fire. National Guard...

Weather: Continued sunny weather with areas of smoke. Winds will be west-northwest 4 – 8 mph with up to 15 mph on ridgetops. A warming and drying trend is expected through Thursday as high pressure builds over the area. A low pressure system will increase winds on Friday and provide cooler temperatures. Yesterday’s Activities: Firefighters continued to hold, mop up and patrol firelines on the entire north half of the fire. This portion of the fire becomes more secure each day. On the southeastern side of the fire, east of Cole Creek, crews used low intensity hand ignition to widen the blackened buffer zone that is securing the fire from moving east. Aerial ignition was not used due to smoke and limited visibility preventing helicopters from flying most of the day. However, for a portion of the afternoon, helicopters were able to make water drops on the southwestern fire flank as supervisors continued to develop strategies for initiating direct fireline construction. Brush...

Cougar Creek Fire:The Cougar Creek Fire is 20 miles northwest of Entiat, and is reported at 6,169 acres. A total of 700 personnel, including 15 crews, 4 aircraft, 36 engines and 9 bulldozers are being shared between the Cougar Creek and Lost Fires. Burnout operations along the west side of the Tyee Lookout were halted Monday afternoon as fire activity increased on the Cougar Creek Fire. The fire moved into the Grandma Creek and Young Creek drainages late in the day and remained active in to the early morning hours. Firefighters again monitored and patrolled the Entiat Valley during the overnight hours. Crews are headed back into the area Tuesday to reassess suppression options for the day, with aircraft available to assist firefighters on the ground in their attempt to hold the fire along Tyee Ridge. Lost Fire:The Lost Fire has grown to approximately 58 acres. Very Large Air Tankers (VLATs) dropped several loads of retardant on the fire Monday. Tuesday, a Type 1 hotshot crew will be...

Summary: Continued progress is being made on the Miles, Columbus, Snow Shoe, Round Top Fires. Heavy smoke from area fires has stifled the fire behavior for a second day. This break in fire behavior has given firefighters a chance to continue strengthening control lines. Oregon State Fire Marshal’s task forces worked west of Prospect off of Hwy 62 to assess homes and conduct defensible space work where it was needed. Community Meetings: The IMTs will be hosting three community meetings in the area this week. Wednesday, August 8: Tiller Rural Fire Protection District, 27598 Tiller Trail Highway, Tiller 6:30 p.m. Thursday, August 9: Upper Rogue Community Center 22465 Highway 62, Shady Cove 6:30 p.m. Friday, August 10: Prospect Community Center, 305 Red Blanket Road, Prospect 6:30 p.m. Miles Fire: Firefighters strengthened control lines and mopped up spot fires that started on Saturday. Additional crews will be joining the line to help conduct burning operations where direct...

August 7, 2018 – 9 a.m.Acres: 1,200 acres Percent Containment: 8% Start Date: 07/30/18 Personnel/Resources: Five 20-person crews, 3 helicopters (others available, as needed), 17 engines, 2 dozer, 295 total personnel Location: Two miles east of White Pass Ski Area, within the Goat Rocks Wilderness on the Naches Ranger District, 32 miles southwest of Naches, WA. Cause: Lightning Estimated Incident Containment or completion: 9/1/2018 Fire Fighters at the Mariam Fire Prepare for Week of Hot and Dry Conditions Current Activity: Additional resources including crews, engines and heavy equipment arrived yesterday and went to work. Good progress was made as masticators and chippers assisted hand crews in removing and chipping the dense vegetation along the Forest Road (FR) 1200-540 in the north and FR’s 1207 and 1200 on the east flank. On the north and west flanks fire managers continued to develop their containment strategy above White Pass in the difficult terrain in the Goat...

On Wednesday the 8th of August at 6:30 PM, a meeting at the Methow Valley Community Center in Twisp WA will be held for community members to listen to what is happening with the fire. Community members will be given a chance to speak with incident management personnel, agency administrators, and public information officers about fire suppression and evacuation notices. The address For the Methow Valley Community Center is 201 WA-20, Twisp, WA

Northport, WA - PUBLIC AND FIRE FIGHTER SAFETY IS THE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY. The NE Washington Type 3 Incident Management Team asks the public to avoid Sheep Creek road and surrounding areas due to fire apparatus. The Sheep Creek fire started on 30 July 2018 in north Stevens County near the town of Northport. The fire perimeter and acreage are unchanged and remain within the boundaries of Flagstaff and Sheep Creek roads. Falling crews continue to fall hazard trees along the line to improve safe working conditions for fire crews as they mop up. Hotter drier weather is resulting in continued consumption of unburned fuels within the fire perimeter. Smoke will be visible today. Air support remains available to help containment efforts. This morning at the 6:00 am briefing, firefighters were praised for their high level of personal responsibility in making risk based decisions given the extremely steep terrain and large trees with roots burning out. They were reminded that a successful...

COMMUNITY MEETINGS: There will be two Hendrix Fire Community Meetings this week. The first one will be held at 7 pm on Wednesday, August 8, 2018, at The Commons, Ashland Middle School, 100 Walker Avenue, Ashland, Oregon. The second meeting will start at 7 pm on Friday, August, 10, 2018, at the Hendrix Fire Incident Command Post located at the intersection of Highway 238 and Hamilton Road in Ruch, Oregon. This meeting will be followed by a short tour of the fire camp. Both meeting will be streamed on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/HendrixFire2018/.Hotter and dryer conditions will return to southwest Oregon and continue through Thursday. Maximum temperatures near the fire will be in the upper-70s to low-80s while temperatures at lower elevations will be in the triple digits starting today. Winds will be calm in the morning and then becoming northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. The National Weather Service has issued an Excessive Heat Watch for Wednesday and Thursday for...

Due to fire traffic along the Grayback Road, expect delays of up to 30 minutes. The road is open.

The finish line for the Garner Complex is in sight. Today, fire managers placed two additional sections of the fire into patrol status. Currently, well over half of the fire has no active operations, only daily monitoring and patrol. Fire managers expect that they will place the remaining portions of the fire in patrol status at the end today’s shift. The Suppression Repair group continues to make excellent progress and expects to complete repair operations within two to three days. The incident management team’s goal has been to get the fire to a point where it could be safely and confidently handed back to the local ODF district. “History will judge us by what we leave behind,” said Rick Dolan Incident Commander for the Florida Red Team. “There’s a lot of fire season ahead of us. We want to make sure ODF can use their resources to suppress the next fire, not come back to this one.” Crews continue to find a few isolated hot spots within 100’ of the line in the...

There will be a Hendrix Fire Community Meetings at 7 pm on Wednesday, August 8, 2018, at Ashland Middle School, 100 Walker Avenue, Ashland, Oregon. Officials will provide the public with an update on fire operations.

August 6, 2018 – Contact: Megan Hill, Public Information Officer, (509) 939-5216 Northport, WA – The Sheep Creek fire near Northport, WA, has been burning since July 30th and is currently being managed by the Northeast Washington Interagency Type 3 Incident Management Team #3. There are over 350 people assigned to the fire, doing various jobs from working on the line to developing operations strategies to managing resources behind the scenes. This fire was originally managed by a National Type 3 Incident Management Team from Albuquerque, NM. The Washington State Department of Natural Resources had pre-positioned this team in the area when critical fire weather was expected. This team was staged in Colville; they were able to respond to Northport and begin managing resources very quickly. Two days later, the fire grew in size and complexity during a hot and windy afternoon. The local Northeast WA Type 3 team joined the New Mexico team and worked side-by-side for four days....

Daily Update August 6, 2018Summary: The Miles, Columbus, Snowshoe and Round Top Fires are being managed under unified command amongst the Northern Rockies Team 2 (Turman), the Oregon Department of Forestry Team 1 (Hessel) and Oregon State Fire Marshal’s Red Team (Yocum). These incidents are formally known as the South Umpqua Complex and Sugar Pine Fires. Smoky conditions across the area on Sunday helped to temper winds and moderate fire behavior. Firefighters used this break to make good progress on lining spot fires and strengthening control lines around the incident. The smoky conditions did limit air operations on fires yesterday, due to low visibility. Community Meetings: The IMTs will be hosting a community meeting in Tiller on Wednesday, August 8 at 6:30 p.m. at the Tiller Rural Fire Protection District, 27598 Tiller Trail Hwy. There will also be a community meeting in Shady Cove on Thursday, August 9 at 6:30 p.m. at the Upper Rogue Community Center, 22465 Hwy 62. Miles Fire:...

The Southwest Oregon Joint Information Center has released the update for August