Good News as Firefighters Claw Out 12% Containment on the Six Rivers Lightning Complex
Yesterday evening, residents of the Willow Creek/Salyer area who’ve dealt with over a week of evacuations, smoke, and fear saw law enforcement from both counties as well as the California Highway Patrol searching for looters. The two men, suspected of burglarizing a Trinity County property, were last seen in the town of Willow Creek, but had not been taken into custody as of late last night.
We’ve gathered the most important information about the Six Rivers Lightning Complex and organized it below for our readers.
We’ll update in green throughout the day.
UPDATE 2 p.m.: Information from Six Rivers National Forest,
The Lightning Complex Fire is currently 15,232 acres with 12% containment. There are 1,641 personnel assigned to the incident. USFS, CAIIMT 11 and CAL FIRE continue to work together in a unified command with a full suppression strategy to provide protection for structures, impacted communities, crucial infrastructure, and important wildlife habitat.
Last night in the area west of the Bremer Fire, firefighters performed firing operations using dozer and handlines to remove fuels to protect homes. Crews will continue to monitor and patrol the fire to look for threats to control lines.
On the northwest side of the Waterman Fire, crews conducted successful firing operations off Waterman Ridge. Today fire crews will focus on holding the Four Road, aka Waterman Ridge Road, to provide protection for the communities of Salyer Loop and Salyer Heights.
On the Campbell Fire, resources are working to keep the fire from the community of Trinity by maintaining the fire line constructed earlier along Waterman Road.
On the west side of the Ammon Fire, crews constructed dozer line and will continue working in the area today to construct handline. In the southeast corner near the Six Road off Ammon Ridge, crews successfully contained spot fires last night. They will continue to focus on this area today, establishing control lines. Firefighters will also continue to improve confinement lines along Ammon Ridge today.
To the west side on Friday Ridge Road, firefighters will continue to work along the Friday Ridge system.
Fire activity is expected to increase today with lower humidities and shifting winds. Aerial firefighting support will be deployed when visibility permits over the Campbell and Ammon areas.
The following roads into evacuation zones have been closed. Residents may still use these roads to travel out of evacuation order zones:
- Seeley McIntosh Road at Country Club Road
- Patterson Road at Raga Hills Road
- Friday Ridge Road at Forest Route 6N06
Highways 299 and 96 are currently open but remain impacted by fire behavior.
Due to a large presence of fire personnel and machinery working to build containment lines for the Ammon Fire, residents are asked to limit travel on Titlow Hill Road/Route 1 in zones HUM-E052 and HUM-E062 to essential traffic only.
Stats:
According to Cal Fire, there has been one injury on the fire.
The stats from Cal Fire captured yesterday morning are:
This morning’s stats from Cal Fire are:
That’s eight more helicopters, 51 more engines, 8 more dozers, and 241 more personnel.
Below are the rough acreage on the individual fires as gathered from the heat maps.
Ammon 6,938 IR Acres
Bremer 1,288 IR Acres
Campbell 5,366 IR Acres
Charlie 132 IR Acres
Waterman 1,502 IR Acres
Compelling Images:
The Weather:
According to InciWeb, “Warm and dry conditions continue this weekend with well defined thermal belts at night. Still monitoring for possible thunderstorm chances by later Tuesday into Wednesday of next week across the Forest.”
The Roads:
Hwy 299 and Hwy 96 is open but please keep your eye on Caltrans QuickMap for the latest information.
UPDATE 2 p.m.: The following roads into evacuation zones have been closed. (Please note we believe more rural roads have been closed but don’t yet have accurate information. These are just the ones we know for sure.) Residents may still use these roads to travel out of evacuation order zones:
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- Seeley McIntosh Road at Country Club Road
- Patterson Road at Raga Hills Road
- Friday Ridge Road at Forest Route 6N06
Due to a large presence of fire personnel and machinery working to build containment lines for the Ammon Fire, residents are asked to limit travel on Titlow Hill Road/Route 1 in zones HUM-E052 and HUM-E062 to essential traffic only.
The Maps:
- Operations Map –to see details either zoom or click on the map and download a pdf.
- KMZ Map–Zoom for detail or for 3D imagery, click on the map and download a file that connects with your Google Earth program.
Evacuation and Meeting Information:
- Click here for the latest evacuation information from Humboldt County
- This is the latest Humboldt County Evacuation Map as of 5 p.m. today. However, click the map to go to the latest information on ZoneHaven.
- Click here for the latest evacuation information from Trinity County
Earlier:
- Six Rivers NF Lists More Fires] Lightning Storm Peppers Northern Humboldt, Multiple Fires Reported
- Humboldt County Office of Emergency Services Issues an Advisory to Willow Creek Area After Multiple Fires
- Evacuation Orders Issued for Residents east of Willow Creek by HCSO and Evacuation Warnings Issued for Residents Near Salyer by TCSO
- Evacuation Orders and Warnings Expand as of 7:36 p.m. for Residents of the Willow Creek Area
- Over 500 Acres Burning Around Willow Creek This Evening as Latest Info on the Six Rivers Lightning Complex Released
- Six Rivers Lightning Complex Grows, Threatening Homes and Forcing Evacuations
- Trinity County Sheriff’s Department Issues Evacuation Orders For Areas Near Salyer
- New Evacuation Warning Issued for North of Willow Creek
- Humboldt County Issues New Evacuation Orders at 7:37 p.m.
- Six Rivers Lightning Complex Doubles in Size, 0% Containment
- More Evacuations Ordered This Morning as the Six Rivers Lightning Complex Takes New Ground
- Evacuation Orders Issued Sunday at 6:30 p.m.
- New Evacuation Warnings Issued Sunday by the Trinity County Sheriff’s Office at 7:52 p.m.
- HCSO Issues Evacuation Order for Zone South of Willow Creek
- Six Rivers Lightning Complex Expands to 6,773 Acres
- Six Rivers Lightning Complex Grows Several Thousand Acres and Is the Number 1 Priority in the State Right Now (PHOTOS)
- Steady Growth and New Evacuation Warnings: Six Rivers Lightning Complex August 10
- Six Rivers Lightning Complex Continues to Expand
- Firefighters Face Hotter and Drier Weather on the Six Rivers Lightning Complex Today
- Good News from HCOES
- Evacuate! New Order Issued on August 12 at 5 p.m.
- Trinity County Reducing Salyer From Evacuation Order to a Warning
- Law Enforcement Searching for Suspects in Willow Creek
- Law Enforcement Seeking Looters in Willow Creek
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As folks call out PG&E, LE, FS, CalTrans, etc. for their failures, I want to reiterate that here in the mountains these folks are our heroes!
Thank you again, and again for not just this present event, but for all the other times you guy’s are out here in the smoke, the snow, the ice, the heat, the 3am showing up to direct traffic in an accident. CPR on infants on the side of the highway. NarCan life-saving of people who have been thrown away.
Sacrificing healthy lungs to protect people.
Yeah, yeah. Mr/Ms Compiracy Nutt. They sometimes protect structures. Not because the citizens are, “wealthy,” but more likely the opposite.
It’s difficult not to respond to these ungrateful, uninformed, and inexperienced complainers when we who live here watch the firefighters, cops, Forest Service, CalFire, PG&E, local volunteers, risk life and limb daily to help us.
moviedad, your comment is just outstanding! I wish there were more folks like you that treat the men and women you mentioned as heroes. At lot of folks just don’t give a damn anymore. They just sit on their behinds and bitch, bitch!
Absolutely spot on. The sideline critics seldom lift a finger, but they can lift their lips. The overwhelming majority of us are grateful for all the people who contribute, behind the scenes it is thousands more, helping evacuate, prepare structures, running food support, sheltering animals and property and people. Thank you all!
Excellent comment! We can be critical and debate certain aspects at other times but….in a crisis- especially like a fire!- we pull together and give respect to all helpers. It’s a very rough duty the people out there are pulling…Big Thanks and props to all
Thank you so very much to all the fire fighters and police officers.
Your hard work is greatly appreciated!!
I know that the firefighting team leaders were saying they were preparing to gain containment but as day after day went by without any, it was worrisome. It’s so good to hear of their progress now.
Great let us go home before the looters take everything