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Today the Coffeepot Fire grew to 452 acres. Crews continue to work on handline and scouting the landscape. Water drops with aircraft continue. 

Today Complex Incident Management Team 5 arrived and participated in an in-brief with NPS and other local agencies. This team will take over management of the fire tomorrow morning under Unified Command with NPS and Cal Fire.

Reminder that we have scheduled a public meeting for tomorrow evening. 

Coffeepot Fire Public Meeting

Sunday, August 18 at 6pm

Three Rivers Memorial Building

If possible, the team will try to host the meeting using Sequoia and Kings Canyon's Facebook Live so more people are able to participate, but that is dependent on resources getting approved. An update about this will go out in tomorrow morning's fire update.

Fire updates will likely be sent each morning moving forward, opposed to the evening updates we've been doing. Team 5 will be sending these out.

Efforts to suppress this wildfire include 110 fire personnel, one fire engine, 5 helicopters, and multiple fixed-wing air tankers, with many more resources being requested and filled daily.