Yolla Bolly Fires Grow: East to 125 Acres and Haynes to 10

map of East and Haynes fires Press release from the Mendocino National Forest:

The East Fire located 43 miles west of Red Bluff in the Yolla Bolly Wilderness on the Mendocino National Forest is estimated at 125 acres. It was reported by Anthony Peak Lookout June 17 at 4 p.m.

Forest officials have chosen to use a confinement strategy for the East Fire. The factors that officials considered in making that determination include firefighter safety, access to the fire, its location, potential areas of concern, likely growth over time and current and forecast weather. The designated confinement area is between East Ridge, Buck Ridge and Wrights Ridge.

The objectives for this incident include reducing exposure to firefighters, removing hazardous fuels, protecting wilderness characteristics and decreasing the probability for high severity wildfires in the future. Approximately 100 resources are managing the East Fire including smokejumpers, hotshot crews and aircraft. Today, fire crews plan to remove brush and reinforce the confinement area boundary along the East Ridge.

There is another wildfire southeast of the East Fire called the Haynes Fire. Several crews are taking actions to suppress this 10-acre fire. Crews report minimal activity on this incident.

In order to protect wilderness characteristics, crews are using minimum impact suppression tactics or MIST. These tactics include using natural barriers, minimizing tree cutting, using aircraft and water drops to slow fire spread and constructing the minimum amount of fireline needed to maintain the confinement area. The use of chain saws in the wilderness is authorized when necessary.

More information can be found at https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6394/.

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Willie Caos-mayham
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4 years ago

🕯🌳Thank you Kym for the updates.

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4 years ago

Looking at the map, and the remoteness of the fires, setting a designated confinement area between Buck Ridge, Wrights Ridge, and East Ridge seems pretty reasonable, and better than some of the USFS’s “confinements” from past fires. Sad to see it burn though. Too bad the smoke jumpers couldn’t put it out, but at least they prevented it from going northeast. They’re pretty bad ass fire attackers, so I’m sure they gave it a wallop. Perhaps more air support needed? Hopefully the downhill burning will proceed slow, and allow the fighters some small measure of safety. Cooler temperatures from now to next week will help too.

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4 years ago
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For once I am reading a fire fighting strategy that should’ve been being implemented for the past 20 years. YES!!! Let it burn if it doesn’t threaten life or property! That is what forest fires do, they burn! It will help the health of the forest by clearing underbrush, allowing seeds to finally germinate that do so only after being exposed to intense temperature. It will reinvigorate the soil with nitrogen and potash. Most importantly, it will reduce the fuel load in that area so the chance for that area to burn again in the next ten years will be minimal. Who is the new head of CalFire? Their policies have totally flipped 100. Maybe Pres. Trump’s threat to cut CalFire’s funding if they didn’t start being smart brought this change about.