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Current Ukonom Complex Fire Information

The Ukonom Complex and Siskiyou Complex Incident Management Teams are providing daily updates on the local fires. Click on the following links to access the pdf files:

Ukonom Complex Update; July 13, 2008, 10 AM

Siskiyou Complex Update; July 13, 2008, 10 AM

InciWeb is working again and much of this information should be posted there soon. The link for the Ukonom Complex is: http://165.221.39.44/incident/1406/

For those of you living upriver the link for the Siskiyou Complex is: http://165.221.39.44/incident/1380/

Orleans/Somes Bar FSC UPDATE 7/12/08:                                                 

UKONOM COMPLEX

Last night, Division M Supervisor Kit Jacoby had hotshot crews conduct burnout operations from the top of Offield Mtn down to Offield Saddle and Camp Three Road on the east face of the mountain in preparation for holding the Merrill Fire as it comes out of the Merrill drainage. While darkness itself poses risks to these crews, stable winds and weather help mitigate unforeseen fire behavior and give them a chance to establish a black line before the afternoon winds and high temps whip the fire up. Today and tomorrow, the fire will  be testing these lines, and we will know if they are going to hold. Large runs on the east side of the Merrill drainage have actually assisted fire fighters by pulling the fire on the western flank back into itself. Yesterday, fire was brought down through the last little chunk at the mouth of Merrill adjacent to residences there, and things had settled by evening. Thanks to all the firefighters and locals who assisted landowners there prepare for and weather having fire in their back yards.

There is a new Public Info Officer on the fire: Tom Lavagnino. I think he still has the same number as the last team: 530-627-3981.

SISKIYOU COMPLEX

Things were a little more quiet yesterday after the large run the day before up Rock Creek Butte. Containment lines are being planned on Lonesome Ridge and Lightning Ridge down to the Klamath River near Eyese Bar. The Resource Advisor for the Siskiyou Complex visited us Thursday to get our Critical Info and Fire Protection survey data for residences potentially threatened by this fire. Ti Bar and Patterson residents had a lot of ash raining down in their yards a couple days back, so we requested Siskiyou Complex structure protection support be extended to them, as well as landowners to the south of Rock Creek. Hopefully, folks will receive a visit and resources as needed in the next couple days. I haven't heard what is happening on the north side.

Could be time to get an air purifier. Click here for some info to help find the right one for you.

Teresa Hacking Keeping Yard Wet as Merrill Fire Backs Down Behind Her House

MKWC Newsletter

MKWC's newsletter can now be found online!!!  CLICK HERE to view the February 2008, Tenth Edition.  Check out the MKWC publications to view past newsletters.

 

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