Central Idaho Fire Update
Cascade ICP Burnover - The Incident Management Team had a “shelter in place” plan for such an event
USFS - Monday, August 13, 2007 at 11:00pm MT
Late today, the North Fork Fire spotted across the South Fork of the Salmon River and burned toward the west and south flanks of the Cascade Complex Incident Command Post and base camp. The Incident Management Team had a “shelter in place” plan for such an event and activated it. Incident Commander, Paul Broyles, said, “We had a good plan, we activated it, and it worked.”
Damage to the Incident Command Post and base camp included the loss of one yurt (large tent), 5 firefighter tents and minor damage to one pickup truck. There were no injuries. The rest of the camp facilities are intact. Two historic structures belonging to Knox Ranch, next to the Incident Command Post, were lost. Firefighters were successful in protecting structures around Warm Lake, including the Youth on A Mission Camp, and the Juniper Outfitters facilities and the historic structures at Stolle Meadows.
The Monumental fire continued to grow to the northeast and joined with the Sandy Fire. In addition, there was also some growth on the west side of Stolle Meadows.
Firefighting efforts tomorrow will again focus on structure protection around Warm Lake, Yellowpine, Johnson Creek, Warren and Secesh.
CASCADE-ICP-BURNOVERCREDIT: UNKNOWN taken from id-bof-cascade-icp-burn-by.pdf
Read a red hot discusssion about this incident event at Wildlandfire.com They said and the Hotlist -
Amazing video of the actual burn over at thr Cascade ICP Video
209 from 1900 yesterday
Paul Broyles, IC (T1)
Significant events today (closures, evacuations, significant progress made, etc.):
Portions of the Boise, Payette, and Salmon Challis National Forests remain closed. Both the Monumental and North Fork Fires are growing significantly. Yesterday showed a combined fire growth of 27,240. Multiple improvements are threatened at this time. Due to rapid fire growth the number of improvements threatened is undetermined. The southern flank of the North Fork fire is threatening the Cascade Complex ICP. The "Stay in Place Plan" was implemented at Cascade ICP at 16:00 due to this threat. At approximately 1730 a running crown fire enveloped Cascade ICP. A defensive strategy was in place. Some infrastructure and two historical cabins were lost in the Knox Ranch/ICP area. Planning continues to reallocate resources to manage the significant change of both fires.
Remarks:
Yesterday the Monumental and North Fork fire grew a combined 27,240 acres. Today¿s fire growth will most likely mimic the previous operational period.
more info here on the ICP burnover:
Central ID Fire Update http://www.fs.fed.us/idahofires/audi.../indexpm.shtml
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Late today, the North Fork Fire spotted across the South Fork of the Salmon River and burned toward the west and south flanks of the Cascade Complex Incident Command Post and base camp. The Incident Management Team had a “shelter in place” plan for such an event and activated it. Incident Commander, Paul Broyles, said, “We had a good plan, we activated it, and it worked.”
Damage to the Incident Command Post and base camp included the loss of one yurt (large tent), 5 firefighter tents and minor damage to one pickup truck. There were no injuries. The rest of the camp facilities are intact. Two historic structures belonging to Knox Ranch, next to the Incident Command Post, were lost. Firefighters were successful in protecting structures around Warm Lake, including the Youth on A Mission Camp, and the Juniper Outfitters facilities and the historic structures at Stolle Meadows.
Cascade ICP fire video - shot by Alex Park and sent anonymously to fusee.org
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the plan worked!!!??????????/prior to the planned backburn we were told that they would burn off the upper meadow so,if the backburn took off,we would have a safety zone to go to.they never cleared the intended safety zone.the backburn took off on them.they had us gather in the middle of where all the large support propane tanks were.(showers,laundry,caterer ect.)we were surrounded by hundreds of vehicals,fuel tenders.the supply area with More fuels.partical board office trailers. we were trapped with no where to go!the videos don't show us down on the ground trying to get air.doesn't show us huddled up againt the vehicals trying to escape the heat.(bombs).embers flying everywhere.it was like the end of time!firestorm!!!we almost DIED!!
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