FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
THE BAKER COUNTY PRESS — 9
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Bebe’s word search
Griffin Gulch
Photo courtesy of Tiffany Maness.
Resources including multiple engines, a dozer and air support quickly gathered
on scene.
The Littles’ crossword puzzle
Photo courtesy of Tiffany Maness.
Air support and retardant were key factors in knocking down the fi re.
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By 6 p.m. fi re resources
responding to the scene
included three dozers,
eight engines, one hand
crew, an air attack, and two
Single Engine Air Tankers
(SEATs). High winds had
pushed the fi re up to 20
acres.
In addition to the Level
3 (GO) evacuation notice
at Griffi n Gulch, a Level
2 (SET) evacuation order
was issued for the area
immediately surrounding
Griffi n Gulch to the north
side of Elk Creek. A Level
1 (READY) evacuation
notice was issued for the
Elk Creek, Washington
Gulch, Old Auburn and the
foothills south of Baker
City.
Tiffany Maness, whose
The
family lives up Griffi n
Gulch said, ”We were very
worried. We are the last
house on Griffi n Gulch
Lane, so it would have
been ours up in fl ames
fi rst.”
By 6:30 p.m., the blaze
had grown to 30 acres.
Maness said, “I am very
impressed with how quick
the fi re crew got out here.
They were on top of it! We
saw them before we saw
the fi re. We were auto-
matically a Level 3 so we
didn’t get to prepare. We
had to grab some clothes
and our kids and animals
and leave.”
Maness said she had
family in Baker City, so
she, her husband and three
children headed to their
home.
“A lot of the families
around here didn’t evacu-
ate—they pretty much
watched to see if it got any
closer before they left,” she
said. “But with our house
being so close to it we felt
a threat.”
Shortly after 7 p.m., the
winds began to shift to the
south, which meant the fi re
was being fanned away
from Baker City instead of
toward its Western Heights
area.
At that point, the area
that had fallen into the
initial Level 3 notice, was
downgraded to a Level
2, and the Maness family
began to feel the threat had
passed, which it had.
Resources from Keat-
ing, Bowen Valley, and
Baker Rural Fire Depart-
ments, as well as Oregon
Department of Forestry
and the Wallowa-Whitman
National Forest resources
responded.
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