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NWCC Morning Briefing in Spanish: En la parte norte central de Oregon y el Sureste de Washington hubo lluvias... http://fb.me/... Info from the NWCC Morning Briefing 8-25-15 at 0700 hrs: Activity Summary, In the Northwest: Lightning occurred in north central Oregon and southeast Washington with minimal precipitation. No new large fires. Continued growth on existing large fires. http://fb.me/...
Washington State: Southeast Incidents
Couger Creek - Glenwood Dip Site, Washington 8-24-15
Cougar Creek News Release 35,000 acres
Community Meeting scheduled for late afternoon, Tuesday, August 25 at 6:00pm in the Glenwood School Gymnasium. Future daily updates will be posted at 9 a.m. each day on InciWeb: http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/... Incident maps are available at the following link: https://deptofnaturalresources.box.com/...
Containment of the Cougar Creek fire along the southern flank North of Glenwood has been achieved and there is now minimal fire activity in that area. good progress with implementing the plan to increase containment around the upper east flank. Nonetheless an extensive effort is still needed to secure the head of the fire as it moves northward. A key element of this effort is completion of a large burnout operation along the 255 and Potato Hill roads to remove fuels and create solid containment lines. This operation was begun as planned and is progressing well. Burnout operations are expected to occur again today and for the remainder of the week. Residents should expect to see significant smoke in the vicinity and in adjacent areas as these operations occur.
Fire suppression along the southwestern flank of the fire above Trout Lake also proceeded effectively aided by bucket drops from Washington National Guard Black Hawk helicopters. Work will continue today in this area. It is possible that the fire will move into large piles of slash and may produce significant amounts of smoke as it does.
The USFS has announced a closure to the Pacific Crest Trail in the Mt. Adams Wilderness area. For more info http://www.pcta.org/... or call the Mt. Adams Ranger District at (509)395-3400.
Chelan Complex 88,104 acres
Chelan Complex Maps
8/25 Air Quality Report Note: Manson monitoring site has re-established. Yesterday an air monitor was also installed in Brewster.
Tuesday: Decent mixing has allowed smoke to disperse overnight and into the morning in some affected communities. Expect to see generally improved air quality in the afternoon with smoky conditions gradually returning overnight. This pattern will be more apparent in Chelan and Manson. Brewster will see improved air quality throughout the day. Wednesday: Chelan and Manson will again see varying levels of smoke throughout the day. Twisp and Winthrop will not likely get much relief from the smoke. Leavenworth and Wenatchee may see some smoke drift during the day which should clear out by evening Thursday: With uncertain meteorological information at this time, this forecast may change considerably. Webcam looking up Lake Chelan http://www.fsvisimages.com/... .
8/25 Current Maps ~ Chelan Complex
Evacuation/Aid Information: Level 3 evacuations are in place for approximately 1,000 residents in the greater Chelan area. Level 3 evacuations remain for Holden Village, Lucerne, Domke Lake, Riddle, and Lightning Creek. Evacuation information is available from Chelan County Emergency Management: Facebook | Twitter. Red Cross shelters are established at MOE Elementary, 407 East Woodin Ave, Chelan; Sterling Middle School, 600 North James Street, East Wenatchee; and Brewster High School, 503 S 7th St, Brewster.
Washington State:
Northeast Incidents 2 current
weather alerts
Okanogan Complex 256,567 acres largest fire in
state history (video)
Okanogan Events changing too fast to have updates since INCIDENT UPDATED 12 HRS. AGO except this: (Facebook) Okanogan County Emergency Management Current Evacuation Levels 8/25 at 10:50 AM #okanogancountyfire
Level 3: Aeneas Valley, Twisp River Road, Tunk Area, West Fork Road area of Salmon Creek, west of Conconully town limits.
Level 2: Chiliwist (Chiliwist Valley and Chiliwist Road), Conconully, Loomis area, Twisp, Winthrop, Buzzard Lake Road, Leader Lake, Pleasant Valley, West Fork Fork Road area, Salmon Creek west of the city limits of Okanogan, Gardner Creek Road (near Republic)
Level 1: Havillah, Tonasket, Clarkston Mill, State Frontage Road, Carlton, Chesaw, Malott, Mazama, Molson, Omak, Oroville, Pateros, Brewster, Okanogan, Riverside, Omak Flats (south of Epley & Bide-a-Wee), Omak Flats/Green Acres (North), Talbert Loop Road, Pogue Road, Danker Cutoff, & all areas west of Conconully Hwy to Epley Road, All Johnson Creek Road to Highway 97 including Green Acres Road.
There is a Red Flag (Fire Weather) Warning in until 9 PM Tuesday, so all areas should remain alert to changing fire conditions and evacuation levels.
Okanogan Emergency Management En Espanol - is on Facebook.
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Okanogan complex big enough to cover Tacoma to Mukilteo
JakeWhittenberg @jwhittenbergK5 says Much of area devastated by the #OkanoganComplex fire looks like a moonscape. video report here.
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