The Nena Springs Fire is now 80% contained and covers about 40,000 acres. Incident Commanders Richy Harrod and Scott Magers are rapidly turning their attention from containing this fire to demobilizing their organizations and sending people home or to other fires. A smaller force is on the fire today finishing some areas that still have some heat and need attention.
But the work is not finished. On Wednesday, the NW Incident Management Team 12 and the State Fire Marshal’s Blue Team will be handing management of the fire back to the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Fire Management Division.
Although the Incident Management teams will be leaving, a number of resources will remain assigned to the incident.
The Fire Management Division is putting together a local Incident Management Team (IMT) that will be taking over responsibility for the further management of the Nena Springs Fire. Many of those team members have been working on the fire for the past week. Today the new team members are “shadowing” their counterparts on the existing IMT and finalizing plans for the next steps.
The transition to the local team is being done carefully to assure that the investments made by the hundreds of local, state and federal firefighters to contain this fire, are followed through to completion. The new team will be patrolling the area, mopping up where necessary, and rehabilitating areas disturbed by fire suppression activities.
Yesterday (Monday), firefighters made excellent progress in mopping up and patrolling the northeastern area of the fire that burned all the way to the Deschutes River. Last night a crew was camped out on this section of the fire and will be completing that work today. One small area on the west side of the Mutton Mountains was burned out yesterday and is looking very good this morning.
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