Fire Information: (541)
316-7711
Containment: 60%
Size: 24,025
Milli Fire
September
10, 2017 Daily Update
REDMOND, Ore.— There was no new growth on the Milli Fire yesterday. Total acreage for the fire today remains at 24,025 acres with 60 percent containment.
Resources on scene include 59
personnel from the US Forest Service, the BLM, the Oregon Department of
Forestry and the Oregon Department of Transportation.
Air quality information is calling
for improved conditions today over parts of Central Oregon and firefighters on
the ground report reduced smoke above the Milli Fire. The fire may
intermittently put up columns of smoke as it moves into interior pockets of unburned
fuel.
Firefighters
today will continue patrolling, mopping up and repairing all repairing all
containment lines. Crews also continue monitoring the perimeter as
it pushes into the lava flows along Highway 242 ensuring that all hot spots are
monitored until cold. The majority of heat from this fire remains in the
southwestern edge of the fire perimeter as it moves slowly south in the Pole
Creek burn and west into rock.
The area
closure in place for the Milli Fire has been reduced. While the western,
southern and eastern boundaries of the closure remain the same, the northern
border has decreased to open access around Black Butte Ranch and Cold Springs
Campground. More information on this closure can be found at the Forest
Closures link below.
Acreage on this fire will likely grow moderately in the coming week. The
west side of the fire continues to burn down slope with occasional torching in
pockets of timber in the Three Sisters Wilderness and will continue to
extinguish naturally when it runs out of fuel in the lava fields. Fire will
also continue a slow move to the southwest in the Pole Creek burn area where
overhead hazards remain a concern for firefighter safety. When necessary,
firefighter will utilize indirect firefighting tactics like helicopter bucket
drops to cool hot spots.
Total
suppression cost to date for this fire is estimated at $15 million.
Links
Road Closures - OR 242 is
closed east of Cascade Crest to the junction of FR 15. For further information
seewww.tripcheck.com
Forest
Closures- For further information go to: https://www.fs.usda.gov/alerts/deschutes/alerts-notices
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