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Little Yamsay Fire

Unit Information

1301 S. G St. 
Lakeview, 
Oregon 
97630 
1301 S. G St. 
Lakeview, 
Oregon 
97630 

Incident Contacts

  • Fire Information
    Email:
    2024.littleyamsay@firenet.gov
    Phone:
    971-978-7899

Little Yamsay Fire Update - May 6, 2024 05-06-2024

Little Yamsay Fire
Publication Type: News - 05/06/2024 - 08:31

Little Yamsay Fire Update   

May 6, 2024

Fire Information: 971-978-7899

Email: 2024.littleyamsay@firenet.gov

 

Size: 2,009 acres  Location: 15 miles southeast of Chemult, OR near Klamath Marsh

Start Date: Detected April 20, 2024  Cause: Lightning  Total Personnel: 92

Crews: Engines: Heavy Equipment: 6  Water Tenders: 4

 

Cool, wet weather remained over the fire area with approximately 3 inches of snow accumulating at the highest point of the fire. Although the precipitation is helpful in securing the fire’s edge, our plan to utilize firing operations to promote forest health will be delayed until fuels dry out.

 

Firefighters focused on hazard tree removal and fuels reduction along roads in the phase three block. When completed, these roads will serve as control lines for planned firing operations that will occur when warmer and dryer weather returns later this week. Engine crews patrolled, secured the fire’s edge, and extinguished heat in the root systems and cat faces of large-diameter Ponderosa Pines.

 

Heavy equipment operators utilized feller bunchers and tracked harvesters to cut and stack debris along Forest Roads 49 and 7645. Afterwards, a skidder and dozer with a grapple hook piled the material out of the block that will be burned. In some areas, an excavator with a masticator head finished the process by grinding surface fuels.

 

Firing operations will not be implemented due to the cool weather and high fuel moisture. Control line preparations will continue during Monday’s operational shift, and resources will also prepare the phase four block as a potential area to reintroduce fire into.

 

Hotshot crews will be cutting standing dead trees along both sides of the Silver Lake Highway between Forest Roads 49 and 7645. To safeguard this operation, flaggers and signage will control the flow of traffic. If you plan on driving through this area, expect delays.

 

There are no closures or evacuations for the Little Yamsay Fire.

 

Social Media Links:

Inciweb Page: https://inciweb.wildfire.gov/incident-information/orfwf-little-yamsay-fire

South Central Oregon Fire Management Partnership (SCOFMP) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SCOFMPFIREINFO

SCOFMP YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/@scofmpfireinformation6729

Fremont-Winema National Forest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/R6FWNF

Fremont-Winema National Forest website: https://www.fs.usda.gov/fremont-winema/