Wenatchee River Complex Fires
Location: Nahahum, Devils Gulch, Chelan Co. CA
Specific Location: Cashmere coords given: Lat 47° 31´ 20″ Lon 120° 28´ 05″
Date of Origin: 07/30/2010
Cause: Lightning
Situation as of 08/03/2010 5:00 pm
Personnel: 492
Size: 2,065 acres
Percent Contained: 100%
Costs to Date: $2,309,000
Structures Threatened: 84 PRIM , 90 OUTB
Structures Destroyed: 1 PRIM , 3 OUTB
100% containment.
Nahahum Canyon Road residence - Evacuation Level 2 remains in place, road closure signs will remain in place. Nahahum Canyon Road opened to residents only.
Devil’s Gulch Fire - Continue mop-up to turn back standards 100 feet in grass and 200 feet in timber and rehab trails. Tripp Canyon Fire – Continue mop-up to turn back standards 100 feet in grass and 200 feet in timber and continue rehab of trails and roads. Nahahum Fire – Continue structure protection and construct containment lines. Start rehab and another check with Hand held IR around structures for 100 feet. Patrol controlled IA Fires.
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Situation as of 08/02/2010 5:00 pm
Personnel: 643
Size: 2,065 acres
Percent Contained: 70%
Costs to Date: $1,800,000
Structures Threatened: 84 PRIM , 90 OUTB
Structures Destroyed: 1 PRIM , 3 OUTB
Evacuation Level reduced to a 2 on Nahahum Fire. All others have been removed.
Nahahum Fire – 1947 acres. Increase in acres due to accurate GPS around entire fire. Tripp Canyon Fire – 64 acres. Devil’s Gulch Fire – 37 acres. Yaxon Fire – 17 acres. Another seven confirmed lightning fires of less than an acre each since 7/30/10.
All fires – smoldering, creeping and burn out of interior large fuels.
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Situation as of 08/01/2010 10:30 am
Personnel: 524
Size: 1,626 acres
Percent Contained: 30%
~100 residences threatened, 1 destroyed.
12 fires, largest is Nahahum Canyon Fire. 52 structures were under evacuation orders as of Saturday night, but those evacuations have been lifted. Rain on fire yesterday.
