The Horseshoe, Riley, 7
Lakes and Canyon Fires are located on the Gifford Pinchot National
Forest. They are being managed as the Mt Adams COMPLEX by the Washington
Interagency Incident Management Team #4.
The Horseshoe Fire (now 340 acres) was detected in the Mt Adams Wilderness July 3, 2015. It
is located on the west side of Mt Adams and is burning in subalpine fir
forest and meadows along Riley Camp Trail #64 at approximately 5300
feet elevation. The southeastern portion of the fire has burned to the 2012 Cascade Creek fire.
Due
to the expected long duration of the 2015 fire season, potential for
the fire to eventually leave the Wilderness, impact tribal and private
forest lands and require even more aggressive control efforts,
firefighters have implemented direct suppression actions using minimum
impact suppression techniques (MIST) to confine these fires. Heavy
lift (Type 1) helicopters were used to drop water to check the spread
of the fires while ground crews initiated direct suppression using wet
line to confine them.
Mop up and rehabilitation are nearly completed on the Horseshoe Fire.
Crews
have completed clearing small trees and brush to strengthen contingency
lines along Forest Road 23 and evaluating additional contingency fire
lines developed during the 2012 Cascade Creek Fire.
On
July 9, 2015, lightning ignited three new fires in the area. The
largest of the new fires is the Riley Fire at 63 acres, with two other
small fires: 7 Lakes Fire (0.1 acres) and Canyon Fire (0.1 acres). 7
Lakes and Canyon have been confined and are being mopped up. Crews are
mitigating hazards and initiating suppression on Riley.
Firefighters
and district recreation personnel have developed and posted Pacific
Crest Trail closure notices and reroute instructions for Pacific Crest
Trail through-hikers to avoid the fire closure area.
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