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Page A—12 Shelton-Mason County JournaI.- Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020
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Over the weekend, five large fires —
more than 300 acres .— were burning in
. Eastern Washington and Olympic Na-
tional Park near Lake Crescent.
“The fire hazards are high right now
due to the combination of hot weath-
er, a dry environment and forecasted
Winds across Washington State,”
North Mason Regional Fire Authority
Emergency Prevention Specialist Lac-
ey Newman wrote in an email.
In 2019, 18 large fires were record-
ed throughout the state.
Two fires, East Beach Road and
Chikamin remained active this week.
The East Beach Road Fire’s prima-
ry containment lines were completed
by Sunday evening, and the fire, near
Lake Crescent about 84 acres and 25%
contained.
Jared Low, public information of-
ficer for Olympic National Park said
the fire was likely human-caused and.
is under investigation. The fire grew to
63 acres in one day.
Chikamin Fire, about 11 miles
northeast of Lake Wenatchee was not-
contained and about 269 acres as of
Wednesday. The fire is fueled by'brush
and timber.
Last week, Hillary Franz, Washing-
ton commissioner of public lands, an—
nounced a statewide burn ban on for;
estlands through Sept. 30 in response
to increasingfire risk acroSs the state.
“We’re anticipating critical fire
weather and potential for dry light-
ning. We need to be cautious, pre-
pared, and doing our part to protect
our firefighters,” Franz said in a July
31 Twitter video. “Be alert to windy
conditions and red flag warnings —
extreme fire weather.”
This year, however, wildland fire-
fighting looks slightly different from
years’ past. ,
Crews are taking precautionary
measures to help stop the spread of
COVID-19.
“We have to wear masks if we are
interacting with anybody not in our
strike (wildland firefighting) team,”
North Mason Regional Fire Authority
wildland firefighter Lindsey Chaffee
said. _“Every morning we get a briefing
— we usually gather in a crowd but in-
stead they are just briefing our strike
team leaders and then they can brief
us individually.”
North Mason crews were out on the
Coulee Meadows fire last weekend.
Chafi'ee said this was her first wild-
land fire experience during the pan-
demic, adding that the new precau-
‘tions slow communications and pose
technical challenges in long distance
travel and team meals.
The Department of Natural Re-
sources Wildland fire team has already
responded to nearly 900 fires in 2020.
Local agencies have had an equally
busy fire season, with NMFRA report-
ing they responded to around 150 inci-
dents over the last two weeks, includ-
ing structure, vehicle and vegetation
fires.
Newman said NMRFA is asking
homeowners to limit activities that
can contribute to sparking fires, and
issued a burn ban, exempting recre-
ational fires in conforming fire pits.
“It is important that we all do our
part to help prevent Wildfires and keep
our communities safe so please use ex-
treme caution when it comes to actith
ties that cOuld start a fire,” Newman
wrote. '
Flames burn near a fire engine at the Coulee Meadows fire in Central
Washington. Photo courtesy of Ted Christensen/Spokane County Fire District
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continued from page A4
and a half days keeping the footholds
—- ensuring the fire didn’t spark up
again and spread beyond the fire line
drawn by the US. Department of In-
terior Bureau of Land Management
and Grant and Douglas County fire-
fighters. '
“North Kitsap came as our water
source so we do the holding and
make short runs to get water,” Frazier
said.
The remaining time was spent
mopping up, or monitoring hots pots,
' Strike Team: Fire contained
removing dry, woody material and
keeping the area cool and damp.
The fire was reported to be 100%
-contained by noon Aug. 2.
According to a release from South-
east Washington Interagency Incident
Management Team the fire started
around 8 p.m. on July 30. “Low rela-
tive humidity in addition to variable
local winds pushed the fire resources
until about 4 am. (Friday) and crews
were able (to) slow the spread,” the re-
lease states.
The cause of the fire is under inves-
tigation.