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Credit: Jodie Barram, NW Team 6
A "Thank You Firefighters and Neighbors" sign displayed off North Bank Road. Credit: Jodie Barram, NW Team 6
Community members have posted wonderful "Thank You Firefighter" signs throughout the area; Collage made by Andrew Sandri
Crews gathered for Morning Briefing on 09/14/2023 to get assignments for the day. Credit: Jessica Reed, NW Team 6
Another photo showing the mosaic burn pattern of the Ridge Fire.
The Chilcoot and Ridge fires have been burning in a mosaic pattern, but what does this mean? Usually a wildfire does not consume everything within its perimeter. Depending on slope, vegetation type, and fire behavior there are usually pockets of green trees and unburned fuel within the fire perimeter. Even where the fire does burn there is mixed severity where trees torch in some area and other areas where the fire stays on ground burning ground vegetation. This results in a mosaic looking pattern on the landscape with areas that burned at different severities and some areas not burned at all.
Photo Credit: Dan Martin, Northwest Team 6
Helicopter 2HX approving a helispot in a remote part of the Chilcoot Fire in a meadow on September 2, 2023.
A thick smoke plume rises from the Ridge Fire on August 26, 2023.
Vegetation smolders on the Ridge Fire on August 27, 2023.