Active U.S. Wildfires – June 30, 2016

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Here are the updates for today.

BEAVER CREEK FIRE (Independence Mtn/Colorado)

• Routt National Forest, BLM,  private land, South of the CO/WY state line, 24 miles NW of Walden.
• Started 6/19/2016 @1200 hours
• Cause unknown
• 13,725 acres
• 5% containment
• 596 personnel
• Minimal, creeping, smoldering
• 11 crews
• 26 engines
• 9 helicopters
• 3 structures lost
• $4.3 Million CTD

BIG HAT FIRE (Valles Caldera National Preserve/New Mexico)

• Banco Bonita area
• Started 6/22/2016 @ 1200 hours
• Caused by lightning
• 87 acres
• Fire being managed as benefit resource.

 

BUG CREEK FIRE (East of I-17; Cordes Lakes area, Aqua Fria National Monument, Cultural sites/Arizona)

• Started 6/28/2016 @ 1045 hours
• 1080 acres
• 90% containment
• 30 personnel
• Interior smoldering
• Evacuation orders lifted
• $500,000 CTD

 

CEDAR FIRE (18 miles northwest of Whiteriver, 10 miles south of Pinetop-Lakeside/Show Low/Arizona)

• Safety Location: White Mountain Apache Reservation
• Start 6/15/2016 @ 1145 hours
• Cause unknown, under investigation
• 45,977 acres
• 90% containment status.
• 3 Type, 6 Engines, 1 Type-2A
• BAER on scene and working on rehabbing the burned areas

 

COLYEAR FIRE (off Colyear Springs Rd, 7 miles W of Red Bank (Tehama County)/California)

• Started 6/30/2016
• 464 acres
• 35% containment
• No new info

CROW PEAK FIRE (Black Hills NF/South Dakota)

• Approx. 4 miles west of Spearfish, SD and 2 miles south of I-90.
• Started 6/24/2016 @ 1815 hours by Lightning
• Active fire behavior with torching
• 1677 acres
• 15% containment
• Increased perimeter due to firing operations
• 512 personnel
• 12 Crews
• 37 engines
• 6 helicopters
• 0 structures lost
• $2.8 Million CTD

 

ERSKINE (Lake Isabella – Kern County/California)

• Lake Isabella
• Cause unknown, under investigation
• 80% contained
• 1743 personnel
• 257 structures destroyed
• $17.5 Million CTD

JUNIPER FIRE (Approximately 10 miles south of Young/Arizona) 

• Start 5/20/2016 @ midnight by lightning
• 30,631 acres
• 90% contained
• 11 personnel
• Managed by Pleasant Valley Ranger District
• Monitoring for hot spots and fire suppression repair

LION FIRE (S of Bradshaw Mountains/Arizona)

• Started 6/28/2016 @ 1600 hours
• Cause unknown, under investigation
• In rugged and remote area
• Indirect fire suppression
• 160 acres
• 0% containment
• 0 structures in the area/no threats

 

MARINA FIRE (One mile northwest of Lee Vining/California)

• Inyo NF
• Command transferring to local command on Friday, July 1
• Minimal fire behavior
• Structures still threatened
• 654 acres
• 89% contained
• 287 personnel
• 5 crew
• 2 engines
• 4 helicopters
• 1 structure lost
• $2.9 Million CTD

 

OBSERVATION FIRE (West of Lost Horse Observation Point, 10 miles Southwest of Hamilton/Montana)

• Started 6/24/2016 @ noon
• Caused by lightning
• 971 acres
• 5% contained
• 136 personnel
• Working to minimize impact on private property and Forest infrastructure
• Fire expected to spread up to the West to Lost Horse drainage into rugged and inaccessible terrain

PEAKS FIRE (Approximately 10 miles north of the Tonto Basin Visitor Center in the Four Peaks Wilderness Area, Tonto National Forest/Arizona)

• Started 6/20/2016 @ 2000 hours
• Lightning caused
• 427 acres
• Unknown containment status
• 55 personnel

 

PINE FIRE (Near Haddock Campground, 3 miles west of the Pine Mtn Lodge, above Middle Sespe/California)

• Started 6/30/2016 @ unknown time
• 200 acres
• 0% containment
• 150 personnel
• Cause unknown and under investigation

 

ROSEBUD FIRE (2 miles SW of the town of Pitkin; 3 miles NE of Ohio City, CO; 2 miles W of Juanita Pass/Colorado)

• Started on 6/26/2016 @ 1330 hours
• 52 acres
• 95% containment
• 55 personnel
• Command transitioning from an IMT3 to a IMT4

 

SADDLE FIRE (2 miles south of Pine Valley/Utah)

• Started 6/13/2016 @ 1100 hours
• Caused by lightning
• 1540 acres
• 29% containment
• 625 personnel
• Rain over the fire ground
• Most of fire backing down steep slopes with short up slope runs and occasional torching.
• Active during night operations.
• Fire Managers expecting fire to small runs from group torching

 

SAN GABRIEL COMPLEX

Fire Fish (Los Angeles County/California)

• Command transferred back to local authorities 6/30/2016
• 4253 acres
• 96% contained
• 194 personnel
• 7 crews
• 6 engines
• 8 helicopters
• 0 structures lost
• $7.3 Million CTD

Reservoir Fire (3 miles N of Azusa/Angeles NF/California)

• Command transferred back to local authorities 6/30/2016
• 1146 acres
• 96% contained
• 114 personnel
• 1 crew
• 5 engines
• 0 helicopters
• 0 structures lost
• $7.8 Million CTD

 

SKELETON FIRE (Skeleton Canyon, Peloncillo Mountains, Coronado NF/Arizona)

• Started on 6/28/2016 @ 1000 hours
• Caused by Lightning
• 820 acres in steep heavily forested canyons
• 0% containment
• 57 personnel
• Fire being managed for resource benefit to ecosystem
• $50,000 CTD

TRAILHEAD FIRE (Middle fork American River canyon south of Todd Valley/California)

• Started 6/28/2016 @ 1345 hours
• From an unknown cause
• NorCal Interagency Incident Management Team 2 / CAL FIRE NEU (Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit)
• 1564 acres
• 12% containment
• 992 personnel
• Evacuations in Placer County (http://placer.ca.gov/emergency/trail-fire) and El Dorado County (http://pio.edso.org/)
• Fire active prompting evacuations

 

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