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Northeast Washington Team 3 will assume command of the Gray Fire from outgoing Northwest Team 7 on Saturday afternoon. A contingent of engines and firefighters will remain on the Gray Fire through the weekend to complete mop up and rehabilitation work. Continued cool, wet weather is assisting firefighters but they are still finding and extinguishing scattered pockets of heat and smoldering debris. Around 307 personnel are assigned to the incident as of Friday morning, but that number will continue to drop as resources are demobilized and assigned to other incidents.

Evacuations: On Wednesday afternoon, evacuation levels were dropped from a Level 2 to a Level 1 within the fire perimeter and were removed entirely outside the burned areas. Evacuation maps are posted on the Gray Fire Inciweb page and Spokane County’s Emergency Management Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/GEGEmergencyMgt.    

Yesterday’s activities: On Thursday, wildland fire crews continued work to clean up equipment and flagging left in place during the suppression effort, to rehabilitate dozer lines, mitigate any hazard trees, and extinguish isolated pockets of burning material. Thursday was the final night shift.

Today’s activities will be a continuation of mopping up and rehabilitating fire suppression impacts.

Weather and Fuels: Temperatures are expected to rebound back into the upper 70s on Friday and into the lower 80s on Saturday. Winds will be light from the northeast into Saturday morning then shifting to the southwest on Saturday afternoon. Fuel moisture levels have risen significantly which has minimized fire spread potential. Remaining pockets of interior heat with continued creeping and smoldering are possible. Fuels in dry areas, such as under tree canopies or matted grasses, will continue to smolder and may produce light smoke.  

Disaster assistance: Resources are available through the Spokane County Disaster Assistance Center located at the Spokane Falls Community College, Building 9, 3305 W. Whistalks Way, Spokane, WA  99224 - phone: (509) 998-2750. Additional resources for property clean-up can be found at Spokane Regional Health and Spokane Air: bit.ly/44o05BX.

Prepare your property, Protect you neighbors.  https://wildfireready.dnr.wa.gov/

Be wildfire aware! Avoid activities that can cause an accidental spark.

https://www.readyforwildfire.org/prevent-wildfire.

The Gray Fire is a No Drone Zone. Remember, if you fly, we can’t! https://www.faa.gov/uas/resources/community_engagement/no_drone_zone

Gray Fire Information and Links

Phone: 509-903-5563, 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.  

Inciweb:  https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident-information/wanes-gray-fire 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/newfireinfo 

Interactive Evacuation Map: https://arcg.is/1z98v10

WA DOT Highway Updates: https://wsdot.com/Travel/Real-time/Map/ 

Washington Smoke Blog: https://wasmoke.blogspot.com/  

Spokane Co. Emergency Management: 1121 W. Gardner Ave., Spokane; 509-477-3046

https://www.spokanecounty.org/4579/Emergency-Management

Red Cross: 315 W. Nora Ave., Spokane; 509-326-3330

https://www.redcross.org/local/washington/get-help.html

Avista Power & Gas: 1411 E. Mission Ave, Spokane; 800-227-9187

https://www.myavista.com/outages/outage-faqs

Inland Power: 10110 W. Hallett Rd, Spokane: 509-747-7151

https://www.inlandpower.com/outages-emergencies

City of Medical Lake Public Utilities: 851 S. Lefevre St, 509-299-7715

https://medical-lake.org/utilities/

WA Dept. of Social and Health Services: 877-501-2233

https://www.dshs.wa.gov/esa/community-services-offices/community-services-office

Spokane County Sheriff: 1100 W. Mallon Ave, Spokane; 509-477-2240

https://www.spokanecounty.org/938/Sheriff-Services

Spokane County Fire, Dist. 3: 10 S. Presley Dr, Spokane; 509-235-6645

https://www.scfd3.org/