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Cedar Creek Fire

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Unit Information

Willamette National Forest 
Oregon 
Springfield, 
Oregon 
97477 
Willamette National Forest 
Oregon 
Springfield, 
Oregon 
97477 

Incident Contacts

  • Willamette National Forest
    Email:
    sm.fs.mf@usda.gov
    Phone:
    541-782-2283
    Hours:
    M-F 8-5

Photographs Gallery

Map October 24, 2022
PIO Map October 24, 2022
PIO Map October 24, 2022
Map October 24, 2022
Fire Update October 22nd 2022
380 of the fire update from October 22nd, 2022
380 of the fire update from October 22nd, 2022
Fire Update October 22nd 2022
Burned Scar on tree in Division A
Burn scar on tree in Division A
Burn scar on tree in Division A
Burned Scar on tree in Division A

Burn scar on tree in Division A

Hazard Tree in Division A
Hazard Tree in Division A
Hazard Tree in Division A
Hazard Tree in Division A

Burned Hazard Tree in Division A

Timber READ assessing tree damage in Division Y
Timber resource advisor assessing tree damage in Division Y
Timber resource advisor assessing tree damage in Division Y
Timber READ assessing tree damage in Division Y

Timber resource advisor assessing tree damage in Division Y

Heavy Equipment removing debirs
A large piece of heavy equipment know as an excavator uses a long arm with a claw bucket on the end to pick up vegetation debris along a road and place in a white dump truck.
A large piece of heavy equipment know as an excavator uses a long arm with a claw bucket on the end to pick up vegetation debris along a road and place in a white dump truck.
Heavy Equipment removing debirs

Heavy equipment works to remove vegetation along roadside and places it in a dumptruck.

Crescent Helibase
A green/blue/black/white helicopter sits on a paved helipad. Helipad also has a silver and white fuel trucks, black truck and a white/orange helicopter in the background. Equipment stands in front of a row of green trees and blue sky.
A green/blue/black/white helicopter sits on a paved helipad. Helipad also has a silver and white fuel trucks, black truck and a white/orange helicopter in the background. Equipment stands in front of a row of green trees and blue sky.
Crescent Helibase

KMAX helicopters located at the Crescent Helibase on Oct 12

Community Meeting on Oct 16
People sit in chairs looking at a man in a yellow shirt who is presenting fire information next to a tv screen.
People sit in chairs looking at a man in a yellow shirt who is presenting fire information next to a tv screen.
Community Meeting on Oct 16

Hector Medrano with Operations provides an update during a community meeting at Oakridge High School on October 16th.

Fire vehicles
Vehicles parked in a gravel parking lot surround by trees. Vehicles are a green buggy transport, white pickup truck, and a black water tender.
Vehicles parked in a gravel parking lot surround by trees. Vehicles are a green buggy transport, white pickup truck, and a black water tender.
Fire vehicles

Fire vehicles including the Zigzag Hotshot Buggy and water truck.

Entiat Hotshots on Cedar Creek
Multiple firefighters in white hardhats and yellow shirts use tools to dig line in the ground to remove all vegetation and have a strip of mineral soil along the fires edge. Smoke rises though the trees with a hazy, orange sun in the cloudy sky.
Multiple firefighters in white hardhats and yellow shirts use tools to dig line in the ground to remove all vegetation and have a strip of mineral soil along the fires edge. Smoke rises though the trees with a hazy, orange sun in the cloudy sky.
Entiat Hotshots on Cedar Creek

Entiat Hotshots constructing handline on the Cedar Creek Fire. Photo by Joe Koffel

Smoke at ICP on Oct 15
View from the command post has American flag in the foreground, camping tents and vehicles while the orange sun rises above the mountains and smokey haze in the air.
View from the command post has American flag in the foreground, camping tents and vehicles while the orange sun rises above the mountains and smokey haze in the air.
Smoke at ICP on Oct 15

Smoke at the Cedar Creek Fire Incident Command Post in Oakridge, Oregon.

Smoke in Division Tango
Mountainside covered in green trees with multiple smoke columns rising from in between the trees and up against a blue sky
Mountainside covered in green trees with multiple smoke columns rising from in between the trees and up against a blue sky
Smoke in Division Tango

Smoke rising from trees during a firing operations to slow and stop any forward progress of the main fire.

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