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FIRE NEWS--Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center
For Immediate Release: August 1, 2014 10 a.m.
Friday, August 1 morning fire update
PRINEVILLE, Ore.—Central Oregon experienced significant lightning activity last night,
which created a number of new starts from the east slopes of the Cascades east
to the Dayville area.
By 9 a.m. this morning, the dispatch center
had fielded more than 20 reports of potential new fires since 8 p.m. last
night. Reports are expected to continue coming in throughout the morning.
A new fire 15 miles south of Dayville and 4
miles east of the South Fork John Day River had grown to 3,000 acres by early
morning on BLM-administered lands.
Crews worked through the night to protect
three threatened structures in the Murderers Creek area and keep open a road
for ranch owners to access their property. Firefighting efforts will continue
throughout today.
Other reports include multiple, small starts
west and northwest of Sisters, including four strikes immediately surrounding
Black Butte. There are two starts reported in the Three Sisters Wilderness, one
start immediately west of Elk Lake, two starts just southeast of Wickiup
Reservoir, and six small starts south of China Hat.
Other activity includes multiple, small starts
across Prineville BLM-administered lands, including several south of Brothers,
and isolated starts across the Maury Mountains and Ochoco Mountains.
Oregon Team 3, a Type 2 Incident Management
Team, is expected to take command of the Sniption fire near Condon today.
The Sniption fire is a wind-driven grass fire
that originated about 7 miles west of Condon on Tuesday on private property.
The fire has since spread south and west onto both private and BLM lands,
moving into Thirtymile Canyon and Sniption Canyon.
The fire is reported at 25,000 acres and 20
percent containment.
Firefighting efforts have focused on keeping
the fire west of Highway 19, which connects Condon to Fossil, and protecting 10
threatened ranches in the area. Crews will continue suppression efforts today
using air and ground resources. Currently, 127 firefighters are assigned to the
fire.
Future updates on the Sniption fire will be
available online at: http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4026/
Two fires southwest of Dayville continue to
put up smoke but have not grown. One fire is reported at 13 acres and another
at 40 acres. Crews have fought the fires with water drops from a helicopter due
to the steep, inaccessible terrain.
Three fires east of Dayville are being managed
by the Oregon Department of Forestry as the Haystack Complex. Information on those
fires can be found online at: http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4020/
The National Weather
Service in Pendleton has issued a Red Flag Warning for thunderstorms producing
abundant lightning. The warning will be in effect through 11 p.m. Saturday,
August 2.
Storms that develop
are expected to bring with them at least the potential for some rain, with
precipitation ranging from a few hundredths of an inch to around a quarter of
an inch.
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