Wallowa County Chieftain
Fire
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August 26, 2015
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FIRES BURN THROUGH BLAZE: 33
structures lost
WALLOWA COUNTY
the Grizzly Bear Complex and
a new ¿re.
The new ¿re started on 6at-
urday, Aug. 22, way up Hur-
ricane Creek 5oad a couple
of miles aboYe the trailhead.
That ¿re has resulted in a /eY-
el 1 eYacuation warning in the
area.
That ¿re, named the Falls
Creek Fire, was reported at
20 acres on Tuesday, Aug.
2. As of press time it is still
zero percent contained, but
¿re lines haYe been built along
Hurricane Creek Trail and the
ridge south of Falls Creek.
5ed Àag warnings are still
in effect for areas around both
of these ¿res, and the ¿re dan-
ger in the forests throughout
the northeast is listed as ex-
treme.
In the Good News/Bad
News column, a cold front is
expected on Friday, bringing
in a 60 percent chance of rain.
That said, it may also bring in
thunderstorms and threat of
more lightning-caused ¿res.
Air Tuality is Yery, Yery
bad. That may or may not im-
proYe.
Stay tuned.
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View from the Shiloh Inn Public Bath House parking lot, Aug. 20 at 10 p.m.
Fire visible up the Wenaha
Canyon behind the Troy
Store on Thursday night,
Aug. 20.
At 1 p.m.
in the
afternoon on
Aug 20, the
Grizzly Bear
Complex fire
on Bartlett
Bench
appeared
manageable.
It didn’t stay
that way for
long.
Steve Tool/Chieftain
The latest news (shortly be-
fore noon on Tuesday) is that
a ¿re line of nearly .5 miles
has been constructed along
the southern perimeter and
of¿cials estimate seYen more
miles of line will be needed to
contain the ¿re along 5oads
62 and 6212 near Troy.
On the northern perime-
ter of the ¿re, ¿re¿ghters are
looking for places to set up
their defenses, and new whiz-
bang protections, such as
¿re-retardant gel spray on the
surface of threatened build-
ings, are being considered as a
way to protect property in the
Turkey Tail area in Columbia
County, Wash.
Just to spice things up,
a new ¿re on the north edge
of the Grizzly Bear Complex
was reported Tuesday morn-
ing. It’s been named Green
5idge and is Must acres so
far.
A Yehicle accident also oc-
curred Monday night when a
¿re engine got too close to a
road-edge in the steep country
and rolled. Three ¿re¿ghters
were transported to the hos-
pital, but are reported to be
doing well.
The )orest 6erYice reports
there are now approximately
66 people working on these
¿res, with 12 crews, 5 en-
gines, ¿Ye helicopters and
four structural Task Forces in
the ¿eld. Those numbers Àuc-
tuate by the hour depending
on the behaYior of the ¿re.
They also report that
structures haYe been lost,
though they don’t detail those
structures at this time.
Two large helicopters haYe
been called in on the Grizzly
Bear Complex and the Grizzly
Helibase was established near
Joseph — to assist with both
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Paul Karvoski (in gray T-shirt) gives orders to a Joseph
Fire Department firefighter regarding structural
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