Acres: 32,739
Containment: 41%
Current Situation: As warm and dry conditions continue today, resources are prepared to respond to potential changes in fire activity while completing assigned suppression repair tasks. Fire managers continue to work with Resource Advisors concentrating on fire suppression repair, which involves carefully restoring areas disturbed during firefighting efforts.
This includes stabilizing firelines and forest roads, removing activity generated fuels created during fire suppression efforts and clearing these materials from ditches and other locations to reduce future fire risk, and prevent erosion and flooding issues.
Division A/P: Divisions A and P have been combined and are being placed in patrol status. The majority of suppression repair is completed in this division. Crews continue clearing debris such as tree limbs and other smaller woody vegetation that remains mixed in with gravel along roadsides. Firefighters will continue to patrol Forest Service Rd (FSR) 21 along the north side of the fire along with FSR 2134 and FSR 2136 on the west side for any potential heat or smoke.
Division D: Firefighters continue to patrol along FSR 21 and are mopping up any additional pockets of heat or smoke they may find. Crews are continuing to remove and transport activity generated fuels to designated locations. This work is expected to be completed before the weekend moving this division into patrol status.
Division F: The fire on the ridge above FSR 2153 is still holding even as the drier conditions persist. Suppression repair work is on-going as crews continue chipping and hauling activity generated fuels. Suppression lines are being repaired to reduce potential soil erosion. There has been visible smoke from the 433 Fire from interior pockets drying out and beginning to smolder, but it has not increased in size and will continue to be patrolled.
Division K: Firefighters continue suppression repair including removal and chipping of suppression generated activity fuels and repairing suppression lines. Patrol and mop-up operations continue on FSR 2136 and FSR 2154.
Division M: Pockets of interior unburned islands show increased activity with warm and dry conditions making smoke more visible, but fire poses no danger to completed containment lines. Firefighters will closely observe this area as warmer and drier conditions continue throughout the day. Crews continue suppression repair along roadsides removing suppression related activity fuels and vertical hazards such as fire-weakened trees. As work nears completion, firefighters will continue to patrol along FSR 2136 to ensure containment lines remain secure.
Contingency Group: Crews continue to make steady progress removing and hauling activity generated fuels from the contingency lines west of the fire along FSRs 2133, 2125, and 5850, and on the southeast side along FSRs 2150, 770, and 2610. This work will continue for several more days.
Weather, Fuels, and Fire Behavior: Unseasonably warm and dry weather continues today, further drying fuels that have retained moisture from previous rains. There may be more smoke visible as the unburned vegetation ignites within the containment lines of the fire.