Heres the latest update: It is strange how much it just feels like a normal day up here. There is very little smoke and the helicopters are just now starting to fly. We had a visit from a firefighter this morning who was able to update us on todays map and give us some good info. The fire is almost completely encircled by a fire break now. The only remaining portion that is not bulldozed is across the river from us -- south of low gap creek to the hermitage. He said that yesterday they were able to find a fire road from the hermitage towards low gap that had a huge, impassible wash out. He and his partner are heading out from the Grahams now to try to find this side of the fire road and map it to the wash out. If they are able to do that they will likely go in and bulldoze a break there giving them double the chance to stop it with a break and the river. He says that the fire is burning very slowly. It is burning all of the stuff on the ground but very few trees are igniting. There is very little wind right now which is also helping. He felt pretty confident that once they have defensible breaks they will go at it with aggressive back burns and take it out. He asked us to continue working to clear all of our structures so that they can get to them if they need to protect them but again, if conditions remain similar to what they are now he feels fairly confident that they are going to be able to stop it across the river. He mapped our buildings today as well as all of our neighbors so we will be added to the current count of 43 endangered structures and will appear on the map they are all using. We assume some of them have access to it digitally and we will appear right away. For those using the printed version we will be on it tomorrow morning.
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:04:55 +0000
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