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Classic Canyon Fire Update

Monday, July 31, 2023

Size: 235

Containment: 85%

Start Date: July 27, 2023

Cause: Under Investigation

Texas A&M Forest Service in coordination with the Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System Strike Team, McGregor Task Force and the Gatesville Volunteer Fire Department began work on July 27th to contain the Classic Canyon Fire. On July 29th, the Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System Strike Team and McGregor Task Force engine crew continued patrolling and holding the fireline, maintaining the containment at 85%.

Yesterday:

Incident Commander D. Pennington with Texas A&M Forest Service took command of the fire at 9:00am. Six engines patrolled the containment area, extinguishing remaining hot areas along the line. All resources released for night at 7:30pm and containment remains at 85%.

Today:

Resources from McGregor arrived on scene at 10:09am. There were no obvious flames within the fire perimeter and minimal heat and smoke within the containment line. Resources are patroling, improving containment lines where needed and holding the line where secure. No changes in containment or acreage.

Weather and Fire Behavior:

Hot and dry conditions are expected to continue through Tuesday, with high temperatures near 105 degrees and 10 mph winds from the southeast. The minimum humidity will be around 25% today, with an increase in relative humidity to 60% early on Tuesday morning.

Fire environment conditions during the first week of August will likely support a high volume of wildfire response for a broad area of Texas. Wednesday will feature high significant fire potential as critical fire weather is forecast over critically to extremely dry fuel for areas along and west of I-35 and into Central and East Texas. Tuesday and Thursday will feature moderate significant fire potential as elevated fire weather occurs over critically to extremely dry fuel in the Western/Eastern Hill Country, Cross Timbers, Southeast Texas, Western Pineywoods, and Central Texas.

Evacuations: None

Damages/Injuries:  None

Closures: None

Fire Information

Information Officer

Texas A&M Forest Service

Email: information@tfs.tamu.edu

Phone: 979-255-0591

Inciweb: https://inciweb.wildfire.gov/incident-information/txtxs-classic-canyon-fire

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