Incident Media Photographs

A timber faller is cutting a large hazardous snag or dead tree. The Williams Mine Fire is burning in the 2012 Cascade Creek Fire burn scar, which has many standing dead trees. These snags may be rotten and can fall unexpectedly, endangering fire personnel working nearby. Burning snags can also emit a shower of sparks, which can be blown by the wind, creating spot fires 1/4 mile or more from the main fire.

Smoke billows from the Williams Mine Fire, obscuring the lower slopes of the south side of Mt. Adams on 8-11-24

Smoke from the Williams Mine Fire glows from flames below and the sun's last light to the west, at sunset on 8-11-24. The top of Mt. Adams is visible north of the smoke, and stars are beginning to appear in the sky.

The Gotchen Creek Guard Station is the oldest historic structure on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.

Heavy equipment working to create a fire barrier on 8/8/24

Dead standing trees, called snags, can be hazardous to firefighters and could fall at any time. Taken on 8/7/24

View of the fire from the Mt. Adams Horse Camp on 8/8/24.