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This will be the last update until tomorrow, August 20 ,2008.

 

Fire Name: Silver Creek

Updated:
By:
Position:

August 19, 2008 @ 6:00 p.m.
Helen Frazier
Center Intelligence Dispatcher

Location:
Start Date:
Start Time:
Current Size:
Fuel Type:
Jurisdiction:
Assisting Agencies:

 Sonora Pass
8/17/2008
4:30 p.m.
740 acres
Timber and sagebrush
US Forest Service
BLM, NDF, Mono County, MWTC Winter Warfare Center (USMC), Ca. Highway patrol, CALTRANS, Lyon County, Douglas County, Antelope Valley VFD

Public Safety:

[Structures, Closures, etc.]

 No structures threatened.

Hwy 108 open with controls.  Controls in place from Hwy-108/Hwy-395 at Sonora Jct. to Hwy-108 at Kennedy Meadows,

Other Threats:

[Natural & Cultural Resources]

Unknown 

Resources Assigned:

 3

Air Tankers

 3

Helicopters
7

Water Tenders

 2

Dozers
10

Hand Crews

 28

Engines
42

Command Staff

 375

# Personnel

Containment/
Control:

No estimate of containment or control 

Remarks:

 Fire is 50% contained this evening.

Significant interior burning and heat. 

Firefighters will be improving and reinforcing the fireline tonight and tomorrow.

Breezy conditions continue over the fire area, which is a concern.

Snags and Hazard Trees near the fire perimeter are being allowed to burn up, or are cut down and bucked up.  Helicopter bucket work is assisting with  hazard trees.

A Type-2 Incident Management Tem is on scene and will take over command of the fire tomorrow.

Fire is presumed to be lightning caused.

Location:  Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, approximately five miles NW of the intersection of U.S. 395 and CA State Route 108.  N38 degrees, 21' 17.28" W119 degrees, 32' 9.23", T.6N, R.22.E. Section 23.

 

 

 


 

Last Updated 08/19/2008
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