Quarry Fire - Daily Update - Oct. 7

Quarry Fire Update   
Saturday, October 7th, 2023   

Stanislaus National Forest   
Incident Management Team (Type-3)   

PIO Contacts: 
Eugenie Moore - eugenie.moore@usda.gov 
steve lyon - slyon@nps.gov 

Fire Statistics: 
Location: The Quarry Fire is located on the Stanislaus National Forest, Mi-Wok Ranger District, off Forest Road 3N01, east of Bourland Creek and near the Emigrant Wilderness west of Cherry Creek. 
Acres Burned to Date: 6,003 
Cause: Lightning 
Containment: 33% 
Total Personnel: 97 
Injuries: 0 

Background: Fire professionals using Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS, also known as drones) are managing fire behavior and intensity to provide for multiple resource benefits including reducing concentrations of all fuels, re-establishing multi-generational timber stands, improving wildlife habitat, promoting plant diversity, and re-introducing fire into fire adapted ecosystems.  

These UAS flights have a light footprint to bring fire to sensitive areas with minimal impact on the wilderness. 

Current Activities: Today, fire crews continued firing, bringing fire toward Bourland Mountain and upper Rock Creek while fire behavior created good consumption of dead and down fuels and mosaic spread. This “mosaic spread” is a healthy mix of burned and unburned forest that replicates the results a low-intensity, natural fire. Near Cherry Ridge, fire is backing and flanking with additional growth along east and west aspects of the ridge. 

Closures: Soft closures are in effect to provide for the safety of the public utilizing public lands as well as fire personnel working in the area.  The soft closures are an encouragement for the public to stay clear of the area, to find alternate routes to their locations and to provide fire personnel the widest berth possible as they go about their mission.  

With the public’s cooperation, we will continue to monitor the number and duration of each, recognizing that fire personnel and public safety is the focus.  

As of October 7, 2023, the following soft closures are in effect:  
2N71 where it meets 3N16 
3N21 where it meets 3N16 
3N21 where it meets 3N01 
3N22 where it meets 3N01 
3N17 where it meets 3N29 
3N29 to 3N29C 
3N16 
3N34Y 
3N01H 
3N01J 
3N01L 

Smoke: Smoke impacts from the Quarry Fire, the prescribed burns of the Experimental Forest, Dry Meadows and Beardsley Burn units on the Summit Ranger District will cause smoke to settle in low lying areas. Check out the fire and smoke map at fire.airnow.gov for more information. 

More Information:  
INCIWEB - Quarry Fire Info - https://inciweb.wildfire.gov/incident-information/castf-2023stfquarry-fire 
Stanislaus National Forest – Official Website - https://www.fs.usda.gov/stanislaus