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GLIDE, Ore. – Seasonal temperatures and higher humidities are expected to continue through the weekend, but temperatures will climb back into the 90s early next week, with possible Red Flag conditions Tuesday.   “We need to take advantage of this moderated weather,” said Incident Commander Brian Gales for Northwest 13 IMT, which is managing the Rough Patch Complex, Jack Fire and several smaller fires in the area. “We need to engage in the right place, with the right tactics to maximize the resources we have.”   For the safety of the public and firefighters battling the Rough Patch Complex and Jack Fire, several new closure orders are now in effect.   The Umpqua and Willamette National Forests have closed Steamboat Campground, Steamboat Falls Campground, Canton Creek Campground, Musick Guard Station and Mineral Campground. Roseburg District Bureau of Land Management has closed Francis Creek Road from the junction with Canton Creek Road north to the district boundary.  ...

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOREST SERVICE  WILLAMETTE NATIONAL FOREST  ORDER # 06-18-10-21-21  FOREST ORDER OCCUPANCY AND USE Pursuant to 16 U.S.C. § 551 and 36 CFR § 261.50(a) and (b), and to provide for public safety, the following acts are prohibited in the areas described in this order within the administrative boundaries of the Willamette National Forest. This Order supersedes order # 06-18-10-21-18. This Order is effective on August 5, 2021, and shall be in effect until rescinded or December 31, 2021, whichever comes first. PROHIBITIONS: 1. Entering into or being upon an area closed for the protection of public health or safety. 36 CFR § 261.53(e) 2. Being on the road. 36 CFR § 261.54(e) 3. Being on a trail. 36 CFR § 261.55(a) 4. Entering or using a developed recreation site or portion thereof. 36 CFR § 261.58(b) CLOSURE DESCRIPTION: All areas affected by this closure are located within Lane County, Oregon, and within the Administrative Boundaries of the...

Devil’s Knob Complex Morning Update Northwest Incident Management Team 8, Incident Commander, Kevin Stock August 6, 2021 Community Meeting: An in person community meeting has been scheduled for August 7, 2021, Saturday at 7:30 PM at the Tiller Volunteer Fire Department. Fire managers from both Devil’s Knob and Skyline Ridge Complexes will provide operational fire updates and an opportunity for the public to ask questions.  The Devil's Knob Complex is a grouping of 50 lightning caused fires with the majority burning on the Tiller Ranger District, Umpqua National Forest. The fires were started from thunderstorms on July 29th and August 1st. The Devil’s Knob Complex is situated between the Rough Patch Complex and Jack Fire to the north which is being managed by Northwest Incident Management Team 13 and the Skyline Ridge Complex Fires to the southwest which is being managed by Oregon Department of Forestry Team 1. The Devil's Knob Complex is managed by Northwest Incident Management...

Firefighters gain ground on fires with assist from weather CANYONVILLE, Ore.— Containing the wildfires closest to Canyonville is one of firefighters’ top priorities today. Once completed, more resources will be focused on the 1,104-acre Poole Fire south of Days Creek. While good progress has been made on the south end of that fire, difficult terrain on the northern edge has proven more challenging. Yesterday firefighters also began engaging on the Dismal Creek 210 Fire in the Upper Cow Creek area. Crews placed hoses around much of that fire and aim to complete that today. As the highest priority set of wildfires in the region, the Skyline Ridge Complex received more than 300 additional personnel yesterday, bringing staffing to 824. The number of hand crews doubled to 26, with more water tenders and more fire engines arriving. Ten helicopters will continue making water drops today, helping firefighters gain control of the smaller fires, many of which are now fully lined and in mop...

Actualizacion del Incendio de Bootleg Augosto 06, 2021  Localización: 28 millas (45 Kilómetros) noreste de Klamath Falls, ORTotal Linea de Defensa: 326 millas (525 Kilómetros)Tamaño: 413,765 acres (167,445 Hectáreas), 647 millas cuadrada (1,676 Kilómetros cuadrados)42 millas (68 Kilómetros) de borde de fuego activo, 284 millas (457 Kilómetros) de línea contenidaContención:  87%Personal: 1,252                                                                                      (Klamath Falls, OR) – Los vientos racheados y las tormentas eléctricas resultaron en varios incendios nuevos causados por rayos al norte y al sur del área de quema del incendio de Bootleg. Los recursos de ataque inicial han establecido un perímetro para controlarlos. El Incendio de Walrus y el incendio de Yanix tienen un tamaño de aproximadamente 75 acres cada uno. El incendio de Yanix tiene un foco...

Bootleg Fire Update, August 6, 2021   Location: 28 miles northeast of Klamath Falls, OR Fireline total:  326 milesSize: 413,765 acres, 647 square miles42 miles active fire edge, 284 miles of contained linePersonnel: 1,252Containment: 87%  (Klamath Falls, OR) – Gusty winds and thunderstorms resulted in several new starts from lightning strikes north and south of the Bootleg Fire burn area. Initial attack resources have established perimeter to control them. The Walrus Fire and the Yanix Fire are about 75 acres each in size. The Yanix Fire has a spot about a quarter of a mile outside its perimeter and crews are working on initial attack and control of those new fires. The Pacific Northwest Team 2 resumed command of the Bootleg Fire from the Alaska Incident Management Team at 0600 today and assumed command of the Yanix Fire and Walrus Fire.  Today’s weather will not be as extreme as the previous three days. Cooler temperatures and...

ORDER NO. 06-02-21-08 FIRE AREA EMERGENCY CLOSURE FREMONT-WINEMA NATIONAL FOREST Pursuant to 16 U.S.C. 551, 36 C.F.R. § 261.50(a) and (b), the following acts are prohibited on National Forest System lands and roads within the following described area on the Fremont-Winema National Forest, Bly, Chemult, Chiloquin, Lakeview, Paisley and Silver Lake Ranger Districts, as described in the attached Exhibit A. This Order becomes effective on August 5, 2021, and will remain in effect through December 31, 2021, or until rescinded. This order supersedes and rescinds order #06-02-21-07 signed by Forest Supervisor Barry Imler on July 27, 2021. PROHIBITIONS: 1. Going onto or being within an area closed for public health and safety. 36 CFR § 261.53 (e) 2. Being upon a closed road. 36 CFR § 261.54 (e) The area described below will be closed to public access/entry due to hazards and hazardous conditions created as a result of the Bootleg Fire. AFFECTED AREA/CLOSURE AREA: All National Forest...

 Devil’s Knob Complex Evening Update Northwest Incident Management Team 8, Incident Commander, Kevin Stock August 5, 2021 Community Meeting: An in person community meeting has been schedule for August 7, 2021, Saturday at 7:30 PM at the Tiller Volunteer Fire Department. Fire managers from both Devil’s Knob and Skyline Ridge Complexes will provide operational fire updates and an opportunity for the public to ask questions.  The Devil's Knob Complex is a grouping of 38 lightning caused fires with the majority burning on the Tiller Ranger District, Umpqua National Forest. The fires were started from thunderstorms on July 29th and August 1st. Northwest Incident Management Team 8 is managing these fires from an incident command post at the Milo Academy near Tiller, Oregon. Fire Information: (541) 900-6133 (8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.) E-mail:  2021.DevilsKnob@firenet.gov Information Websites: Facebook page “2021 Devil’s Knob Complex” Inciweb -...

 Cooler temperatures, higher humidity help firefighters CANYONVILLE, Ore.—After several hot, dry days, temperatures were 10 to 15 degrees cooler on Thursday, and humidity was higher. This combination reduced fire activity on the Skyline Ridge Complex. Firefighters attacked one new fire discovered near Packard Creek, holding it to two acres.Burning debris rolling down steep slopes continued to create control problems, including on Poole Creek and Packard Creek fires. These two fires gained acreage on Thursday, while other fires mostly stayed within their previous perimeters. John Flannigan, Operations Section Chief, said “O’Shea Creek, Sweat Creek, Ike Butte, and McGinnis fires are looking better and better.”Fire personnel are concentrating on corralling the many smaller fires, to keep them at their current sizes. Most are fully surrounded by fire lines and hoselays, and firefighters are extinguishing hot areas near the fire edges. As more of these fires are brought under...

EVACUATION NOTICES ISSUED IN KLAMATH COUNTY FOR THE WALRUS AND YAINAX FIRES Walrus Fire LEVEL 3 EVACUATION NOTICE Eastern Klamath County, All residents on Meadow Lark Dr, Porpoise Ln, Seal Ln in the Bly Mountain area are under Level 3 (GO NOW) Evacuation Notice due to the Walrus Fire. American Red Cross and Klamath County CERT are in the process of establishing a temporary evacuation point at the Bonanza school located at 31601 Mission St, Bonanza, OR. LEVEL 2 EVACUATION NOTICE Eastern Klamath County, All residents on Thunderbear Rd, Round Prairie Ct, Goldfinch Dr, Chicken Hawk Dr, Sparrow Hawk Dr in the Bly Mountain area are under Level 2 (GET SET) Evacuation Notice due to the Walrus Fire. Residents are urged to prepare to leave IMMEDIATELY if necessary. American Red Cross and Klamath County CERT are in the process of establishing a temporary evacuation point at the Bonanza school located at 31601 Mission St, Bonanza, OR. LEVEL 1 EVACUATION NOTICE Eastern Klamath County, All...

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUREFOREST SERVICEUMPQUA & WILLAMETTE NATIONAL FORESTS Roseburg and Springfield, ORORDER NO. 06-15-00-21-445 EMERGENCY FIRE AREA CLOSURE Pursuant to 16 USC § 551 and 36 CFR § 261.50 (a) and (b), the following acts are prohibited upon roads, trails, and general forest areas within the Umpqua National Forest and Willamette National Forest as described below and shown in Exhibit A. This Order will be effective beginning August 5, 2021 and ending March 9, 2022 unless rescinded sooner.  PROHIBITIONS:1. Being upon a closed road. [36 CFR § 261.54 (e)]2. Going into or being upon a closed area. [36 CFR § 261.52 (e)]3. Being upon a closed trail. [36 CFR § 261.55(a)] Closure Area is described as an area starting at the confluence of Highway 138E and Rattlesnake Creek in T26S R2E Section 13, then following Rattlesnake Creek to its northernmost headwaters in T25 1/2 S R2E Section 35, then Northwest to the intersection of Forest Service Road (FSR)...

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOREST SERVICEUMPQUA & WILLAMETTE NATIONAL FORESTS Roseburg and Springfield, ORORDER NO. 06-15-00-21-445 EMERGENCY FIRE AREA CLOSURE Pursuant to 16 USC § 551 and 36 CFR § 261.50 (a) and (b), the following acts are prohibited upon roads, trails, and general forest areas within the Umpqua National Forest and Willamette National Forest as described below and shown in Exhibit A. This Order will be effective beginning August 5, 2021 and ending March 9, 2022 unless rescinded sooner.  PROHIBITIONS:1. Being upon a closed road. [36 CFR § 261.54 (e)]2. Going into or being upon a closed area. [36 CFR § 261.52 (e)]3. Being upon a closed trail. [36 CFR § 261.55(a)] Closure Area is described as an area starting at the confluence of Highway 138E and Rattlesnake Creek in T26S R2E Section 13, then following Rattlesnake Creek to its northernmost headwaters in T25 1/2 S R2E Section 35, then Northwest to the intersection of Forest Service Road (FSR)...

Pursuant to 43 CFR 9212.2, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) hereby provides notice that effective at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, August 6, 2021, the BLM public lands described below are closed to all forms of public access and will remain closed until the Rough Patch Complex Fire is declared controlled. This closure is necessary to protect public land users from risks associated with active wildland fire, fire suppression, suppression repair, emergency stabilization, and burned area rehabilitation. The closure is also needed to protect wildland fire fighters from activities that could interfere with fire suppression. The health and safety of the public and the firefighters is our priority. BLM will post closure signs at main entry points to this area. Affected Area: BLM road 24-1-26 (Francis Creek) from the junction with BLM road 25-1E-31 (Canton Creek Road) North to the Roseburg District Boundary in Township 24 South Range 1 West Section 1. Please see attached map. Prohibitions: The...

Fire Update: Thursday, August 5, 2021Fire information: The Symbol Rock, Devil’s Canyon, Larison Cove, Way, Warble, and Journey Fires are at 100% containment and remain on a patrol status. The Packard and Windfall Fires are in mop-up status, as well as patrol status.On the north end of the complex, dozers will be working with resource advisors to establish primary indirect lines on the western flank of the 222-acre Ninemile Fire. Crews will also work on Ninemile to prevent southern spread. The Gales Fire has reached 2,148 acres and there is a structure protection plan in place for the five structures threatened west of the fire area. Crews will work on re-opening an old dozer line from a previous fire to establish an indirect line to prevent the fire perimeter from growing to the west. Heavy equipment is being utilized to prepare roads as primary line around the Gales Fire.Yesterday, the Kwis Fire near Oakridge grew to 358 acres and spotted between the 24 road and Salmon Creek....

Thursday, August 5, 2021                                        Fire:  Black Butte Fire                                                             Containment: 0% Acres:  approximately 5700                           Start Date:  August 3, 2021                                                   Cause:  Lightning                                           Location:  8 miles NE of Antelope Lookout                              Fuels/Topography: Mixed brush, grasses and timberTotal Personnel: N/A                                                           Type of resources:  N/A                                                                                    Today:  Crews will continue...

Devil’s Knob Complex Morning Update Northwest Incident Management Team 8, Incident Commander, Kevin Stock August 5, 2021 - 9:00 AM The Devil's Knob Complex is a grouping of 43 lightning caused fires with the majority burning on the Tiller Ranger District, Umpqua National Forest. The fires were started from thunderstorms on July 29th and August 1st. Northwest Incident Management Team 8 is managing these fires from an incident command post at the Milo Academy near Tiller, Oregon. The Devil’s Knob Complex Fires is situated between the Rough Patch Complex Fires and the Jack Fire to the north which is being managed by NW Team 13 and the Skyline Ridge Complex Fires to the southwest which is being managed by ODF Team 1. Fire Information: (541) 900-6133 (8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.) E-mail:  2021.DevilsKnob@firenet.gov Information Websites: Facebook page “2021 Devil’s Knob Complex” Inciweb - https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7771/ Oregon Smoke Information -...

GLIDE, Ore. – Cooler weather and higher humidity should moderate fire activity across the Rough Patch Complex and Jack Fire, but fuels remain dry and will burn readily, fire officials said.   “We had another good day, but it was challenging due to the wind picking up toward evening,” said John Spencer, operations section chief for Northwest 13, which is managing the Jack Fire, Rough Patch Complex and several small fires in the area.   By Wednesday evening, the Rough Patch Complex had grown to 841 acres from 720 acres, while the Jack Fire grew less than 100 acres, from 23,182 acres to 23,280.   Brush and woody debris are being removed along the 3821 Road and the 650 Road down to a dozer line at Lemon Dip. Coordinated efforts to remove logging equipment and log decks are going seamlessly, Spencer said.   On the west side of the Rough Patch Complex, firefighters caught a 2-acre spot fire within the containment lines west and south of the 651 Road, with assistance from aerial...

GLIDE, Ore. – Cooler weather and higher humidity should moderate fire activity across the Rough Patch Complex and Jack Fire, but fuels remain dry and will burn readily, fire officials said.   “We had another good day, but it was challenging due to the wind picking up toward evening,” said John Spencer, operations section chief for Northwest 13, which is managing the Jack Fire, Rough Patch Complex and several small fires in the area.   By Wednesday evening, the Rough Patch Complex had grown to 841 acres from 720 acres, while the Jack Fire grew less than 100 acres, from 23,182 acres to 23,280.   Brush and woody debris are being removed along the 3821 Road and the 650 Road down to a dozer line at Lemon Dip. Coordinated efforts to remove logging equipment and log decks are going seamlessly, Spencer said.   On the west side of the Rough Patch Complex, firefighters caught a 2-acre spot fire within the containment lines west and south of the 651 Road, with assistance from aerial...

Yesterday firefighters completed fire line around the Round Lake and Ogre Creek Fires. Both fires have hoses installed to deliver water to active areas of the fires’ edge. Mop-up of those two fires is expected to be close to completed by the end of today. Work to prepare containment lines for the Janus, Ridge, and Kola Fires is beginning as equipment continues to arrive.Over the last few days there have been well over 2,000 lightning strikes in the Pacific Northwest, including the ones that caused the fires of the Janus Complex. Incoming weather will bring progressively cooler temperatures and increased humidity with the best chance for precipitation on Friday.  While this will be a welcome relief for a few days, the 1,000-hour fuels (wood over 3 inches in diameter) will need more sustained precipitation to reduce the potential for fire growth.  While smaller fuels are typically where the ignition of a fire starts, these larger fuels are what sustains them. Fire camp is set up at...

Cooler weather helps firefighters gain groundCANYONVILLE, Ore.— Two Oregon Air National Guard Black Hawk helicopters are joining eight other helicopters today in dropping water on fires in the Skyline Ridge Complex in southern Douglas County. Such drops are key given the steep terrain and heavy timber and brush facing firefighters.Personnel on the Complex has increased to 518, with the number of hand crews almost doubling since yesterday, nine more fire engines and a tripling of heavy equipment, including dozers. Containment remains at 0 percent.Ground crews will benefit from cooler temperatures today. Heavy fuels, though, continue to burn, sending burning debris rolling downhill and across control lines. Firefighters will be on alert to put out any new spot fires caused by such rollouts.Infrared mapping has shown the combined acreage of the 15 fires in the Skyline Ridge Complex to be 1,516. The largest fires are:Poole Creek – 1,104 acres; O’Shea Creek – 182 acres; Ike Butte...