SIT REP 4: JULY 21, 2025 @ 2050 PT

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: 10,730 acres. 0% containment. Fire fuels grass, brush, and timber.

FIRE BEHAVIOR: Active fire behavior with uphill runs and backing.

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

DAMAGE ASSESSMENT: Cost-to-date: 15.4 Million Dollars.

Photo Credit: ODF

Photo Credit: ODF

INCIDENT COOPERATORS

There are 417 total personnel, along with 10 crews, 56 engines, and 11 water tenders.

AMERICAN RED CROSS Evacuation levels have not changed and are coordinated through the Klickitat County Sheriff’s Office. Please visit Klickitat County Emergency Management’s website www.klickitatcounty.org/249/Emergency-Management or www.facebook.com/KlickitatDEM911 for the most current information. Red Cross Emergency Shelters are set up at Columbia High School, C Court Building, 1455 NW Bruin Country Road, White Salmon, WA, (access is from NW Simmons Road) and The Dalles Middle School, 1100 E. 12th St., The Dalles, OR, to assist with evacuation.

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

COLUMBIA HIGH SCHOOL

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KLICKITAT COUNTY EMA

KLICKITAT COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE: Primary objectives are to minimize impacts to communities and community infrastructure in Bingen, Lyle, and High Prairie, Yakama Nation lands, and natural resources.

The fire is primarily moving to the north and northeast in steep terrain. Multiple scooper aircraft and helicopters are supporting resources on the ground with strategic water drops to cool the fire’s forward edge. Additional resources are en route and are being assigned as they arrive.

Significant aviation assets, including fixed-wing scooper aircraft and Type 1 helicopters, are being utilized to minimize fire growth. These assets are using the Columbia River as their water source. River recreationists should be extra cautious between the Dalles Port and White Salmon.

A slop over on Lyle Snowden Road was halted Sunday. Overnight tactical ignition operations around a spot fire to the east were successful. Crews will continue working today to reinforce the work around Stupp Road. Crews will be working along the Catherine Creek drainage while an interagency hotshot crew scouts potential lines to tie into Major Creek.

On the northwest edge of the fire, a combination of hand and dozer line is holding, and ground crews are attacking the fire from this area as a secure point to engage the fire.

KLICKITAT PUD

LYLE SCHOOL DISTRICT

THE DALLES MIDDLE SCHOOL

SE WA IMT (SE WA All Hazards Type 3 Inter-Agency Team)

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

WASHINGTON STATE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIVISION: (Camp Murray).

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DAMAGE ASSESSMENT

Cost-to-Date: 4 Million Dollars.

STATE MOBE RESOURCES

Deployed July 19, 2025, Saturday

ABERDEEN FD:

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).

Photo Credit: North County Fire

CHEHALIS FD

EVERETT FD: Brush 1 with 3 personnel.

HOQUIAM FD: Brush 1 is on their third fire deployment in two weeks. Three members.

LAKE ROESIGER FD: Three members with the Lake Rosesigner FD have just returned after another State Mobilization deployment for a short break and have been 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.

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

Sean P. Sullivan Northwest Wine Report: They are saddened to report that the BARO winery and cellar were destroyed by the [Fire]. This business is in Lyle, Washington.

Photo Credit: Baro Wine

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