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VANITY FIRE CLOSURE 09-05-2024
Vanity
Publication Type: Closures - 09/05/2024 - 10:00
The Salmon‐Challis National Forest has implemented the Vanity Fire Closure, Order Number: 04‐13‐24‐018.
Description of #04-13-24-018:
DESCRIBED ROADS
The closure shall include the following National Forest System Road:
• NFSR # 40008 Beaver Creek Road from Vanity Summit to Josephus Lake
The purpose of this order is to protect public safety during the Vanity Fire.
This Order shall be in effect from September 5, 2024, at 18:00 (6:00 pm) through September 30, 2024, at 12:00 am unless rescinded.
The Vanity Fire was detected on September 3 and is located approximately 42 miles west of Challis on the Middle Fork Ranger District. The fire is 113 acres burning in subalpine fir, surrounded by the 2012 Halstead Fire. Fire managers are using a point protection strategy (a wildfire response strategy, which protects specific assets or highly valued resources from the wildfire without directly halting the continued spread of the wildfire) to minimize exposure to fire personnel while protecting identified values. Specific values potentially threatened with this fire include Forest Service infrastructure. 27 firefighters are assigned to the fire.
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