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Location: 11 miles NNW of Mazama, WA Total Personnel: 74Acres: 127,607 total acres Cause: Under Investigation Containment: 79% Start Date: July 23, 2017 Note: The containment reflects the percent of operational objectives completed. NIMO transfers command to Type 3 Incident Management Team Current Activities: At 7:00 this morning the National Incident Management Organization (NIMO) transferred command to a Type 3 Organization. The Type 3 Organization is made up of resources currently assigned on the fire, as well as local district personnel. Suppression repair of contingency line continues today with heavy equipment. Similar to yesterday, resource advisors will continue evaluation of the remaining suppression repair activities. The Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) was lifted from the fire area during yesterday’s operational period. Ground resources will continue to monitor fire activity. Various heavy equipment and overhead personnel remain assigned to the fire....

One of those six functions of the Planning Section is maintaining a handle on just what is happening with the fire. How are the actions working or not and reflecting that accurately to help form the next work periods plan of operations. This function is the responsibility of the Situation Unit. Situation Unit Leader trainee Beau Richwine collects information from the fire behavior analyst, incident meteorologist, and resource advisers to assist in planning and operations.Link to Sit Unit

Daily UpdateSeptember 27, 2017 - 9:00 a.m. Fire Information: 541-392-1632 (8 a.m.-8 p.m.) eaglecreekfire2017@gmail.com Approximate Fire Size: 48,573 acres Approximate Fire Containment: 46% Summary: Crews continued to work on mop up and suppression repair yesterday through the eastern and western flanks of the fire. Heavy equipment, including a dozer and skidder made progress in suppression repair in the western part of the fire. Fire leaders will continue to relocate equipment as needed, as fire crews continue suppression repair efforts prescribed by incident resources advisors. Resource advisors are working with crews to implement suppression repair of almost 300 miles of dozer line, hand line, and road line. While suppression repair efforts prescribed by incident resource advisors are localized efforts to bring the fire area as close to a pre-fire condition as possible, the 13-person Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) team will research the potential adverse effects of...

Horse Creek Complex and Rebel FireUpdate for Wednesday, September 27, 2017, 9 a.m. Fire Information: (541) 719-8371 Online: inciweb.nwcg.gov/unit/3860 https//facebook.com/WillametteWildfires2017 Willamettewildfires2017@gmail.com Rebel Fire: 8,703 acres Horse Creek Complex: Olallie Lookout Fire, 1,572 acres; Roney Fire, 3,548 acres; Avenue Fire, 3,574 acres; Separation Fire, 17,914 acres; Nash Fire, 6,738 acres. Total all fires: 42,049 acres. Resources: Personnel, 283; Crews, 6; Helicopters, 1; Engines, 9; Water Tenders, 1; Skidgen, 1. Notice: This will be the final update produced by the Alaska Incident Management Team for the Rebel Fire and Horse Creek Complex. On September 28, the McKenzie Type 3 IMT will begin managing the fire, allowing the Alaska IMT to return home after 2 ½ weeks here. The Fire Information phone number and email address remains unchanged. Weather: Today’s temperatures will rise, relative humidity will fall and winds will...

Horse Creek Complex and Rebel FireUpdate for Wednesday, September 27, 2017, 9 a.m. Fire Information: (541) 719-8371 Online: inciweb.nwcg.gov/unit/3860 https//facebook.com/WillametteWildfires2017 Willamettewildfires2017@gmail.com Rebel Fire: 8,703 acres Horse Creek Complex: Olallie Lookout Fire, 1,572 acres; Roney Fire, 3,548 acres; Avenue Fire, 3,574 acres; Separation Fire, 17,914 acres; Nash Fire, 6,738 acres. Total all fires: 42,049 acres. Resources: Personnel, 283; Crews, 6; Helicopters, 1; Engines, 9; Water Tenders, 1; Skidgen, 1. Notice: This will be the final update produced by the Alaska Incident Management Team for the Rebel Fire and Horse Creek Complex. On September 28, the McKenzie Type 3 IMT will begin managing the fire, allowing the Alaska IMT to return home after 2 ½ weeks here. The Fire Information phone number and email address remains unchanged. Weather: Today’s temperatures will rise, relative humidity will fall and winds will...

Horse Creek Complex and Rebel FireUpdate for Wednesday, September 27, 2017, 9 a.m. Fire Information: (541) 719-8371 Online: inciweb.nwcg.gov/unit/3860 https//facebook.com/WillametteWildfires2017 Willamettewildfires2017@gmail.com Rebel Fire: 8,703 acres Horse Creek Complex: Olallie Lookout Fire, 1,572 acres; Roney Fire, 3,548 acres; Avenue Fire, 3,574 acres; Separation Fire, 17,914 acres; Nash Fire, 6,738 acres. Total all fires: 42,049 acres. Resources: Personnel, 283; Crews, 6; Helicopters, 1; Engines, 9; Water Tenders, 1; Skidgen, 1. Notice: This will be the final update produced by the Alaska Incident Management Team for the Rebel Fire and Horse Creek Complex. On September 28, the McKenzie Type 3 IMT will begin managing the fire, allowing the Alaska IMT to return home after 2 ½ weeks here. The Fire Information phone number and email address remains unchanged. Weather: Today’s temperatures will rise, relative humidity will fall and winds will...

Location: 11 miles NNW of Mazama, WA Total Personnel: 74Acres: 127,607 total acres Cause: Under Investigation Containment: 79% Start Date: July 23, 2017 Note: The containment reflects the percent of operational objectives completed. NIMO transfers command to Type 3 Incident Management Team Current Activities: At 7:00 this morning the National Incident Management Organization (NIMO) transferred command to a Type 3 Organization. The Type 3 Organization is made up of resources currently assigned on the fire, as well as local district personnel. Suppression repair of contingency line continues today with heavy equipment. Similar to yesterday, resource advisors will continue evaluation of the remaining suppression repair activities. The Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) was lifted from the fire area during yesterday’s operational period. Ground resources will continue to monitor fire activity. Various heavy equipment and overhead personnel remain assigned to the fire....

Jones Fire / Kelsey Fire 9/27/2017 - 8 a.m. Fire Information: (541) 937-5219 jonesfire2017@gmail.com Jones Fire - Size: 10,220 acres Containment: 80% Cause: Lightning Kelsey Fire - Size: 441 acres Containment: 30% Cause: Lightning Yesterday’s Activity - Fire suppression repair is in full swing on the west flank of the Jones Fire. This includes a series of immediate post-fire actions taken to repair impacts to the land and minimize the potential for erosion and other issues that might arise from these activities. It usually begins before the fire is completely contained and before the demobilization of the incident management team. It includes repairing areas impacted by the suppression effort hand lines, dozer lines, and helispots. Good progress was made on the chipping operations along FR 18. On the east flank log processing and felling of hazards trees continued today. On the Kelsey Fire crews continued to secure the containment on Bunchgrass Ridge on...

Date Started: Aug. 11, 2017; Cause: Lightning; Acreage: 52,056 (Norse Peak) and 3,853 (American) Percent Completed: 80% (Norse Peak) and 99% (American). Total Personnel and Resources: 85 personnel, 2 Engines and 13 pieces of assorted equipment for chipping, loading and hauling. Fire Summary: Minimal fire growth is expected. Isolated pockets of slow surface spread where the fire is sheltered by the tree canopy and continued burning in the larger dead or down trees is still possible. The southeast side of the fire is under the command of the Naches Ranger District’s Type 4 organization. The northwest side of the fire is under the command of a Type 3 organization with the Incident Command Post located at the Expo Center in Enumclaw. Norse Peak Fire: On the northwest side of the fire, cleanup and fire suppression restoration work continues along Forest Road 70. Fire personnel are monitoring fire movement within the containment lines. American Fire: Any fire activity is expected to be...

High Cascades Complex - West Zone UpdateNorthwest Interagency Incident Management Team 8, Incident Commander: Tim Keith September 27, 2017 Special Announcements: General Westside Deer hunting season opens this week-end. The Rogue River-Siskiyou and the Umpqua National Forests encourage Forest visitors to “Know before you go”! Know: the forecasted weather; road, trail and area closure information; and be aware of firefighters working in the vicinity of your hunting activities. Fire Information Center: (541) 316-8352 Available 8:00 am to 9:00 pm. Information Websites: Inciweb – https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5503 and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/R6RRSNF and https://facebook.com/UmpquaNationalForest/ Incident Management Team: Northwest Interagency Incident Management Team 8, Incident Commander, Tim Keith, is managing the High Cascades Complex - West Zone. The incident command post (ICP) is located at the Joseph Stewart State Park near Lost Creek Reservoir southwest of...

Date Started: Aug. 11, 2017; Cause: Lightning; Acreage: 52,056 (Norse Peak) and 3,853 (American) Percent Completed: 80% (Norse Peak) and 99% (American). Total Personnel and Resources: 85 personnel, 2 Engines and 13 pieces of assorted equipment for chipping, loading and hauling. Fire Summary: Minimal fire growth is expected. Isolated pockets of slow surface spread where the fire is sheltered by the tree canopy and continued burning in the larger dead or down trees is still possible. The southeast side of the fire is under the command of the Naches Ranger District’s Type 4 organization. The northwest side of the fire is under the command of a Type 3 organization with the Incident Command Post located at the Expo Center in Enumclaw. Norse Peak Fire: On the northwest side of the fire, cleanup and fire suppression restoration work continues along Forest Road 70. Fire personnel are monitoring fire movement within the containment lines. American Fire: Any fire activity is expected to be...

New Tool in Firefighting Pioneered by Alaska TeamThe Alaska Interagency Incident Management Team (AIIMT) is pioneering use of a new reconnaissance tool for wildfire: the Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), more commonly referred to as a ‘drone.’ The UAS is capable of detecting size, location and intensity of fires when conditions are too dangerous or smoky to send in ground teams or helicopters. AIIMT is the first team in the nation to travel to a wildfire incident with a UAS division (including equipment and personnel) as an integral part of the firefighting team. So what’s the difference between privately owned drones and this one? Communication and safety. If privately owned aircraft or drones are flying near a wildfire, fire managers have to cancel fire surveillance flights for safety reasons. That’s why it’s not legal for private aircraft (including drones) to fly over wildfires. “The UAS is part of our team,” said Air Support Group Supervisor Jason Brooks, who is...

If you have never seen what a grinder can do with the huge amounts of slash that is generated when firelines are being constructed, here is your chance. Great video shot by Heavy Equipment Boss trainee Jeanne Dawson today working along on the 3811 Road shows how quickly the horizontal grinder can chip up very large pieces of woody debris.Link to grinding/chipping operations

Rick Davis is assisting the Great Basin IMT #3's Planning and Operations sections as an Incident Meteorologist (IMET). Based in Tampa, Florida with the National Weather Service, Rick put in four 12-hour pre-hurricane shifts then waited out Hurricane Irma and spent the next five days without power before being dispatched to Oregon to assist with the Umpqua North Complex.Link to IMET

FINAL UPDATE Fire Information Line: 541-719-8371 Location: Willamette National Forest willamettewildfires2017@gmail.com Willamette National Forest Closures: Facebook: WillametteWildfires2017@facebook.com https://www.fs.usda.gov/alerts/willamette/alerts-notices Inciweb Website: Size: 14,451 acres (total for reported fires) Containment: 47% https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5420 Resources: 372 personnel (total for reported fires) (Beginning September 26 at 8:00 a.m., anyone calling for information on the Whitewater Fires will need to call the Forest Service Detroit Ranger District at 503-854-3366. The District Station is open Monday-Friday, 8:00-4:30 p.m.) On Wednesday, September 27, the local Type 3 Team will spend most of the day shadowing with outgoing NW Team 11. The Incident Command Post for the new Type 3 Team will be relocated to the Detroit Lake State Park on Highway 22. The Type 3 Team will continue to focus on suppression repair efforts, preparing the fire areas for the...

FINAL UPDATE Fire Information Line: 541-719-8371 Location: Willamette National Forest willamettewildfires2017@gmail.com Willamette National Forest Closure: Facebook: WillametteWildfires2017@facebook.com https://www.fs.usda.gov/alerts/willamette/alerts-notices Inciweb Website: Size: 14,451 acres (total for reported fires) Containment: 47% https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5420 Resources: 372 personnel (total for reported fires) (Beginning Tuesday, September 26 at 8:00 a.m., anyone calling for information on the Whitewater Fires will need to call the Forest Service Detroit Ranger District at 503-854-3366. The District Station is open Monday-Friday, 8:00-4:30 p.m.) Over the next three days the Northwest Incident Management Team 11 (Type 2) will be preparing to transition the Whitewater Fires to a local Type 3 Incident Management Team. Transfer of command is expected to take place on Wednesday, September 27. Fire managers are beginning to downsize and demobilize suppression equipment...

Reunion Comunitaria: Reunion Publica, que incluira informacion revisada y actual, en la Estacion de Bomberos Voluntarios en Winchuck (363 Winchuck River Road, Brookings) El dia de hoy a las 6:00 pm)El dia de hoy: Un mapeo de vuelo infrarrojo confirma las observaciones de los bomberos en los incendios de chetco bar e Indigo. Todavia permanecen areas recalentadas, las cuales se muestran como humo aislado dentro del interior del incendio asi como el acceso dificil en las areas de Meadow Creek, East Fork Pistol river (bifurcacion Este del Rio Pistol), Emily Creek y los drenajes del Rio Illinois. Los bomberos estan barriendo y patrullando dichas areas. Tambien,continuan con la recuperacion de equipo y las lineas de fuego de reparacion que ya no son necesarias. Con la finalidad de minimizar la erosion potencial del suelo, se llevo a cabo la introduccion de barreras de agua a lo largo de lineas manuales y de tractores. Los tripulantes colocaron arsenal de tierra, rocas, troncos, madera...

Umpqua North ComplexUpdateSeptember 26, 2017 – 9:00 a.m. Fire Information: 541-378-6944 (8:00 am to 8:00 pm) Inciweb address: https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5505/# Start Date: August 11, 2017 Cause: Lightning Fuels: Timber, forest litter, grass, shrubs Acres: 43,140 Percent Completed: 60% Current Situation: Yesterday crews made great progress in repair work across the entire complex. Along the western edge of the Ragged Ridge/Happy Dog Fire area, use of a newly arrived grinder chipped up woody debris much faster than anticipated. Chipped wood will be hauled to other areas in need of material to slow water runoff. Firefighters finished mopping up containment lines east of the Rattlesnake Fire. A hotshot crew finished repairing dozer line north of the 4775 Road where soils were too wet to use heavy equipment. Along the eastern edge of the Brokentooth Fire, crews finished falling hazard trees along the 28 Road and repaired a gravel retaining wall on the 100...

Location: 11 miles NNW of Mazama, WA Total Personnel: 75 Acres: 127,498 total acres Cause: Under Investigation Containment: 79% Start Date: July 23, 2017 Note: The containment reflects the percent of operational objectives completed. Evacuation order lifted and additional road openings in Diamond Creek Fire area Update: Yesterday, resources completed excavator suppression repair work in the Ruffed Grouse area. South of the fire area, an excavator also worked on primary dozer line. One hand crew continued piling and chipping, while additional suppression repair work was done in the area of Ortell Creek. During a recon flight yesterday; personnel monitored fire activity at Monument Creek, Pat Creek, and the Tungsten Mine area. Minimal movement of the fire was seen in the Pat Creek and Tungsten Mine area; while Monument Creek showed slightly more activity due to the rise in temperature and lower humidity levels. Approximately 97,043 acres in the U.S. and 30,454 acres in Canada...

Suppression repair work on the Umpqua North Complex is over 60 percent complete. Planning Operations Section Chief Dan Gustafson gives an update on today's operations, including extensive chipping, grinding, and log processing along on the 3811 Road north of the Ragged Ridge Fire.Link to 9/26/17 Operations Briefing