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Rain and Cooler Weather Helps Crews Make Progress 

SPRAY, Ore. – Showers and cooler weather over the fires helped slow growth and allowed crews to make progress around the fires.  The northwest to north side of the fire now has direct line and mop up operations have started. On the southwest side along ORE 19, crews will be focusing on removing hazard trees to allow mop up, which will allow opening of the highway.  

The community meeting in Fossil was attended by over 40 people. ODF Incident Commander Matt Howard, along with ODF Operations, ODF John Day Unit, Oregon State Fire Marshall and the Wheeler County Fire Defense Board Chief addressed the attendees and answered questions.

The Wheeler County Sheriff’s Office continually evaluates evacuation levels. Please check their Facebook page for the latest information. https://www.facebook.com/WheelerCountySheriffsOffice/

The Two Cabin, Holmes, Kinzua and Canyon Fires are all in patrol status.  

Community Meeting: 

Spray: Due to the closure of ORE19, a public meeting in Spray is planned for Thursday 12th at The Rock, 601 Willow St. at 6:30 PM.

Flying unauthorized drones is hazardous to aircraft and will ground critical aerial operations.

FIRE AT A GLANCE

Fossil Complex

Total Size:  22,439 acres          

Two Cabin-251acres

Canyon-190 acres

Kinzua-96 acres

Holmes-15 acres

Service- 21,887

Containment:  3% 

Cause:  Lightning

Current Cost: $9.8 M

All Resources 

Hand Crews: 40

Engines: 58

Water Tender: 16

Dozers:  20

Skidders: 7

Skidgen: 3

Excavator: 2

Masticator: 2

Feller Buncher: 4

Total Resources: 1,255

Aerial Resources

Type 1: 3

Type 2: 6

Type 3: 4

Evacuations: 

Level 1: 21 addresses

Level 2: 85 addresses

Level 3: 156 addresses

https://www.facebook.com/WheelerCountySheriffsOffice/

ODF Incident Commander:

Matt Howard, Incident Commander
Incident Management Team 2