SIT REP 3: JULY 20, 2025, SUNDAY @ 19455PT

Photo Credit: KCSO Undersheriff

INCIDENT SUMMARY: The BURDOIN FIRE is located about five (5) miles west of Lyle (Klickitat County) along the Columbia River and north of Hwy 14, near White Salmon and Bingen, Washington State (USA). This is on or near Burdoin Mountain. This is Incident #WA-SES-000447.

SIZE UP: The fire was observed on Saturday afternoon jumping the Klickitat River at Oliver Point and heading East, and north of Centerville Highway. Today (Sunday), the fire has burned about 9,000 acres with a sustained 0% containment status. The fire is still listed as undetermined as the cause and remains under investigation.

FIRE BEHAVIOR: Active fire behavior with running, torching, and long-range spotting.

STATE MOBE DEPLOYED: Multiple Fire agencies, personnel, and equipment have been deployed from Snohomish County, Whatcom County, and from throughout the State to respond to this fire.

DAMAGE ASSESSMENT: Damaged structures: 37 homes and 50 minor structures. Destroyed: 14 homes and 30 minor structures. Threatened: 250 homes. Cost-to-date: 3 Million Dollars.

EVACUATIONS IN EFFECT: Level 1, 2, and 3 evacuation orders are in effect.

Evacuation Map: https://caltopo.com/m/0NL3FK3

(R) Photo Credit: KCSO

LIVESTOCK EVACUATION SHELTER: Contact KCEOC 509-773-0570. SHELTER: Red Cross Columbia HS, C Court Building, off of NW Simmons Road in White Salmon.

INCIDENT COOPERATORS

There are about 289 total personnel with eight (8) crews and 41 engines.

AMERICAN RED CROSS: Staffing shelters and taking care of evacuees.

COLUMBIA GORGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: Providing wildfire resources: https://www.facebook.com/ColumbiaGorgeCommunityCollege

COLUMBIA HIGH SCHOOL, C Court Building, 1455 NW Bruin County Rd, White Salmon, WA 98687. This shelter can be accessed from NW Simmons Rd. Follow the RED CROSS Signage to the rear of the property.

INCIWEB

KLICKITAT COUNTY EMA: 2 Shelters remain open. Evacuation maps: https://sartopo.com/m/0NL3FK3. WEBSITE: https://www.klickitatcounty.gov/249/Emergency-Management…. FACEBOOK PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/KlickitatDEM911 https://www.klickitatcounty.gov/249/Emergency-Management

KLICKITAT PUD: Responded on Friday to a power outage and a damaged pole.

LYLE SCHOOL DISTRICT

THE DALLES MIDDLE SCHOOL, 1100 E 12th St, The Dalles, OR 97058.

SE WA IMT (SE WA All Hazards Type 3 Inter-Agency Team) gives incident updates.

U.S. FOREST SERVICE – COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE NATIONAL SCENIC AREA

WASHINGTON STATE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIVISION: (Camp Murray). A CIMT – Northwest Team 13 is assuming command this evening, if not already.

WILDCAD.NET

STATE MOBE RESOURCES

Deployed July 19, 2025, Saturday

ABERDEEN FD: Photo Credit. Members are actively engaged in attempts to stop the forward progression of the fire. Firefighters are being challenged by windy conditions and rugged terrain. Many structures have been lost, with countless others being threatened.

ARLINGTON/STANWOOD FFS IAFF 3438: NW Team 1: Strike Team Lead (t) K. Johnson and NW Team 2: Brush 46 with Gilman, Officer, Sato, and Thuringer (X-ray Division).

CHEHALIS FD

EVERETT FD: Brush 1 with 3 personnel.

HOQUIAM FD: Brush 1 is on their third fire deploy-ment in two weeks. They are staffed with three members.

LAKE ROESIGER FD: Three members with the Lake Rosesigner FD just came back after another State Mobe deployment for a short break and sent back out to this wildfire incident.

SNOHOMISH COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT 5: Brush 51 has been deployed with Lt. Gwilt, FF/EMT Perkins, and FF/EMT Araujo.

SNOHOMISH COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT 14

SNOHOMISH COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT 21: Brush Truck staffed with three Firefighters, Engle, Berg, and Jacob from Station 50.

S.E. THURSTON FIRE AUTHORITY: Brush Truck 24 with Firefighters, Fritsch and Olschewsky, part of the Central Strike Team. They were deployed on Friday night at 2115 hours PT.

WA STATE DNR (WA DNR)

WHATCOM COUNTY FD

WY’EAST WILDLANDS LLC: They currently have an IA crew on this wildfire.

THROUGH THE EYES OF SOCIAL MEDIA

HILARY FRANZ: “These fires in the PNW continue to be heartbreaking. The Burdoin Fire in Klickitat is an extremely challenging fire, with significant winds, in rugged, difficult terrain, filled with poison oak that gets in our firefighters’ eyes and lungs, making an already difficult fire even harder to fight. It has already displaced so many in the community and, sadly, taken everything from others. Each day, it is roughly doubling in size. I remember the challenges the Tunnel 5 Fire presented just west of here in 2023.”

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