Methow, south end of Wenatchee: 150 acres.Oasis, about seven miles west of Touchet: 4,250 acres.Ruppert Road, about three miles north of Benton City: 155 acres.Hover Park, three miles southeast of Finley: 528 acres.Moran Creek, about 12 miles northwest of Chewelah: 61 acres.OIE Highway, about 10 miles northeast of Prosser: 1,300 acres.McEwan, about three miles northeast of Shelton: 232 acres.Consalus, about 20 miles north of Newport: 186 acres.Tunnel 5, about four miles west of White Salmon: 529 acres.These wildfires were also burning in Washington as of Tuesday afternoon, according to the National Interagency Fire Center: The cause of the fire is still under investigation, he said. “The force of the wind carried the fire quickly and made the fire grow exponentially.” “The winds played a role in spreading the fire very quickly, combined with unburned sagebrush and grasses,” Foreman said. Thunderstorms the previous night had ignited at least one other fire, and the winds were still blowing hard. Federal Emergency Management Agency funds were also released Tuesday morning to help pay for firefighting agencies’ costs in beating the blaze. State resources have been mobilized to fight the fire, According to a statement from Southeast Washington Incident Management Team 1, which took charge of the effort early Tuesday morning.
due to damage to the electrical infrastructure, but there were no injuries or confirmed damaged structures, Foreman said. The power was out from midnight to 6 a.m. SR 28 was closed to traffic Monday afternoon and reopened at about midnight. Those notices had been downgraded to level 2 (“Be ready to leave if requested”) as of noon Tuesday, according to the GCSO. It triggered level three evacuation notices (“Leave now”) first for the homes north of Baird Springs Road, and then for the Crescent Bar community to the south.
The fire, which started Monday afternoon, had burned 2,400 acres and was 1% contained as of Tuesday morning, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. We proactively evacuated them rather than wait for conditions to worsen, since there's only one road out of Crescent Bar.” “It was going to be safer for them and safer for firefighters if we could evacuate Crescent Bar. “We were erring on the side of safety,” he said. He said a proactive evacuation was implemented in the area to protect residents.
QUINCY - The Baird Springs fire north of Crescent Bar continues to blaze away, but it’s not spreading, according to Grant County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Kyle Foreman.
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