Northwest Interagency Coordination Center: 10/13/2017 NWCC Morning Brief

Date/Time Stamp: Friday, Oct 13, 2017, 07:54

Next Morning Brief will be posted Monday, October 16, 2017

Northwest Activity Summary

Mild and showery yesterday with widespread precipitation on the west side and moderate to light precipitation on the east side. No precipitation fell in Southeast Oregon or Northcentral Washington. One new fire reported yesterday. Around 700 acres of prescribed burning was reported yesterday and 8 prescribed burns are planned. Continued mobilization of Northwest resources to California yesterday.

Preparedness Levels

Current:

Northwest	2 (10/02)
National	3 (10/11)

Northwest PL Forecast

1	1	1
3-day	10-day	30-day

Northwest Fire Activity
New Fires and Acres 1 fires for 0 acres191 acres growth on existing large fires
OR: 1 fires for 0 acres
WA: 0 fires for 0 acres

Large Fire Summary
New large fires: 0
Large fires contained: 1
Uncontained large fires: 4 (OR: 4 WA: 0)

Northwest IMT Activity

NIMOs Committed: 0

Type 1 IMTs committed: 0
Type 2 IMTs committed: 0

National Fire Activity
Initial attack activity: Light (73) new fires

New large incidents: 0
Large fires contained: 3
Uncontained large fires: 19

National IMT Activity
Area Command Teams: 0

NIMOs committed: 0
Type 1 IMTs committed: 5
Type 2 IMTs committed: 2

Northwest Current Incident Details

Incidents not Previously Reported: 0

Incidents Previously Reported: 5

Chetco Bar OR-RSF-000326. IMT3. 16 miles W of Selma, OR. Start 7/12. Full Suppression. Cause: Lightning. 191,121 acres (+0). 97% containment. Timber. Minimal fire behavior. Road, trail, and area closures in place.

Eagle Creek OR-CGF-000493. IMT3. 2 miles S of Cascade Locks, OR. Start 9/2. Full Suppression. Cause: Human. 48,831 acres (+0). 50% containment. Timber. Minimal fire behavior. Watershed, timberlands, powerline infrastructure, and major transportation corridor threatened. Road, trail, and area closures in place. Transfer of command back to local unit occurred this morning at 0600.

Miller Complex OR-RSF-000647. IMT3. 20 miles west of Ashland, OR. Start 8/14. Monitor/Full Suppression. Cause: Unknown. 39,253 acres (+191) 86% containment. Timber. Active fire behavior. Road, trail and area closures. Includes the Abney (32,401 acres). Remaining fires within complex are contained and/or in monitor status.

High Cascades Complex OR-RSF-000636. ICT4. 16 miles N of Prospect, OR. Start 8/13. Full Suppression. Cause: Lightning. 27,476 acres (+0). 35% containment. Timber. Minimal fire behavior. Road, trail, and area closures in place. Includes: Broken Lookout (19,194 acres) and Pup (8,282 acres). Last report unless significant activity occurs.

Wolf Creek OR-OCF-001277. ICT4. 45 miles E of Prineville, OR. Start 10/10. Full Suppression. Cause: Human. 540 acres. 100% containment.

Northwest Prescribed Fire Information:

Oregon Department of Forestry Burning & Smoke Management: http://www.oregon.gov/ODF/Fire/Pages/Burn.aspx.
Washington DNR Daily Smoke Management Approvals for Large Burn Silvicultural Prescribed Fires: https://fortress.wa.gov/dnr/protection/BurnRequests

Northwest Fires Utilizing Monitor, Confine, Point Zone Protection Suppression Strategies (YTD) (link)

Lists fires (of any size) that singly utilize Monitor, Confine or Point Zone Protection suppression strategies, or use Multiple Suppression Strategies (which may also include a Full Suppression component).

Northwest Fire Potential Summary

Cool and showery weather over the region today will be followed by clearing and drying over the weekend and the first part of the new week. More rain following later next week. Fire danger indices appear too low for much threat of large fires.

More info, see NW 7-Day Significant Fire Potential Forecast, and National 7-Day Significant Fire Potential Forecast

National Incident Management Situation Report (IMSR): https://www.nifc.gov/nicc/sitreprt.pdf

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