This is the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) fire information update for
Thursday, August 16, 2012.
FIRES ON ODF-PROTECTED LANDS
No new fires 10 acres or larger were reported today on the lands protected
by the Oregon Dept. of Forestry.
The lightning-caused Barry Point Fire burning 22 miles southwest of
Lakeview has burned 8,532 acres on private lands in ODF's Klamath-Lake District,
and a total of 79,000 acres on all jurisdictions in Ore. and Calif. The
department has a number of firefighting resources assisting in the suppression
effort. It is 30 percent contained.
FIRES ON OTHER LANDS IN OREGON
The 436,560-acre Holloway Fire originating 25 miles east of Denio, Nevada,
has burned 224,556 acres in Oregon on the Burns and Vale Districts of the Bureau
of Land Management and 212,004 acres in Nevada. The lightning-caused fire is 71
percent contained.
The 3,657-acre Fort Complex burning on the Klamath National Forest in
Calif. and the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest in Ore. is 23 percent
contained. The fire was started by lightning.
The 14,036-acre Ten Mile Complex is burning on Bureau of Land Management
lands northeast of the town of McDermitt, Nevada, on the Nevada/Oregon border.
The lightning-started fire is 90 percent contained.
The 271-acre Buckhead Complex burning on the Willamette National Forest two
miles north of Westfir is 50 percent contained. The fire was started by
lightning.
The 2,723-acre Waterfalls 2 Fire burning on the Warm Springs Indian
Reservation is uncontained. The fire was started by lightning.
OTHER FIRE INFORMATION
For information on wildfires in all jurisdictions within Oregon, go to the
Northwest Interagency Coordination Center website, www.nwccweb.us/, or to the
national Incident Information System website, www.inciweb.org/state/38.
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