Wild Rivers Complex Fires
Location: 18 miles W of Grants Pass, Josephine Co., OR
Specific Location: Unknown. The reported coordinates put the fire 6 miles SE of Grants Pass (Lat 42° 22´ 27″ Lon 123° 11´ 39″) but that does not comport with the general location reported. We can only surmise that the Rogue River-Siskiyou NF has screwed up the coordinates.
Correct Coords: Lat 42° 22′ 04″, Lon 123° 44′ 15″
Date of origin: 08/16/2008 (Not officially reported to the public by the RR-SNF for 4 days)
Cause: lightning
Situation as of 09/01/2008 at 6:45 PM
Personnel: 107
Size: 1,082 acres
Percent contained: 100%
Costs to Date: $6,840,000
Transfer of command from Vanskike’s Type 2 to Wade’s Type 3 team today at 1500.
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Situation as of 08/31/2008 at 5:20 PM
Personnel: 275
Size: 1,082 acres
Percent contained: 100%
Costs to Date: $6,667,438
Fire is 100% contained. Transition meeting with incoming Type 3 organization (transition to occur 9/1 at 1500).
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Situation as of 08/30/2008 at 5:40 PM
Personnel: 349
Size: 1,082 acres
Percent contained: 95%
Costs to Date: $6,400,000
Horse Mtn Fire is 1,062 acres with active management. Whiskers Fire is 16 acres in
monitor status. East Fork Fire is 4 acres in monitor status.
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Situation as of 08/29/2008 at 5:20 PM
Personnel: 406
Size: 1,082 acres
Percent contained: 90%
Costs to Date: $6,119,898
Horse Mtn Fire is 1,062 acres with active management. Whiskers Fire is 16 acres in
monitor status. East Fork Fire is 4 acres in monitor status.
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Situation as of 08/27/2008 at 7:00 PM
Personnel: 533
Size: 985 acres
Percent contained: 80%
Costs to Date: $5,363,493
Horse Mtn Fire is 965 acres with active management. Whiskers Fire is 16 acres in
monitor status. East Fork Fire is 4 acres in monitor status.
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Situation as of 08/25/2008 at 5:30 PM
Personnel: 596
Size: 800 acres
Percent contained: 60%
Costs to Date: $4,318,413
4105 Road closed to non-fire traffic.
Horse Mtn. Fire, 781 acs, burnout operation successful. Continued preparation work on contingency lines. Whiskers Fire, 16 acs, monitor status. East Fork Fire, 3 acs, monitor status.
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Situation as of 08/24/2008 at 5:30 PM
Personnel: 609
Size: 739 acres
Percent contained: 55%
Costs to Date: $3,440,104
Horse Fire, 720 acs, improvement of containment lines in preparation of a burnout operation the evening of 8/24. Whiskers Fire, 16 acs, monitor status. East Fork Fire,
3 acs, monitor status.
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Situation as of 08/22/2008 at 5:45 PM
Personnel: 613
Size: 645 acres
Percent contained: 45%
Costs to Date: $1,300,000
Significant mopup progress on Whiskers Fire. Continued direct hand and dozer line construction on Horse Mountain Fire. Five helicopters on fire.
Coordinates continue to be mis-reported. Google Earth users should insert the correct coordinates given above.
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Situation as of 08/21/2008 at 5:30 PM
Personnel: 466
Size: 600 acres
Percent contained: 35%
Costs to Date: $900,000
Suwyn’s Great Basin Type 2 IMT assumed command today at 0600. Fires are W of Grants Pass in Horse Mtn. vicinity.
Correct Coords: Lat 42° 22′ 04″, Lon 123° 44′ 15″
Whisker Fire was contained. Clear weather allowed accurate mapping of Horse Mountain Fire and progress with direct line continues.
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Situation as of 08/20/2008 at 7:00 PM
Personnel: not reported
Size: 350 acres
Percent contained: 35%
Weather impacted air support, was not able to fly. Crews had to come off the lines early
due to bad weather. Unlike every other kind of woods worker in Oregon, RR-SNF firefighters cannot work when it is drizzling.
Type 2 IMT not affiliated with the RR-SNF will be taking command 8/21/08, so there is some hope for containment and control of this fire. Had it been left to the devices of the RR-SNF, Grants Pass would be at extreme risk right now.
