Slide Creek Fire
Location: 6 mi S of Colville, Stevens Co. WA
Specific Location: Moran Creek E of Hwy 395, Lat 48° 25´ 52″ Lon 117° 50´ 24″
Date of Origin: 08/26/2010
Cause: Under investigation
Situation as of 08/31/2010 5:00 pm
Personnel: 293
Size: 989 acres
Percent Contained: 90%
Costs to Date: $1,900,000
100% containment. Transfer of this incident to a Type 3 IMT tomorrow at 0600 hours.
***************
Situation as of 08/30/2010 5:00 pm
Personnel: 381
Size: 989 acres
Percent Contained: 90%
Costs to Date: $1,650,000
Crews completed reinforcement of the line and began pulling out the system of hoselines used for mop-up. Excavators are opening dirt berms-from dozer lines-to mop-up hot spots. Two Strike Teams of Engines, all aircraft, and some other equipment, were demobed today. Five Strike Teams of State Mobe Engines will be demobed early tomorrow morning.
***************
Situation as of 08/29/2010 5:00 pm
Personnel: 372
Size: 989 acres
Percent Contained: 60%
Costs to Date: $1,200,000
Structures Destroyed: 2 PRIM , 4 OUTB
No fire growth today. Continued interior consumption-smoldering. Protect endangered homes and outbuildings; reinforce existing control lines; remove unburned fuel from within the control line; grid for hotspots and mop-up (25 feet off line and 500 feet from all structures); rehab dozer lines where appropriate.
***************
Situation as of 08/28/2010 5:00 pm
Personnel: 449
Size: 989 acres
Percent Contained: 30%
Crews reinforced a good deal of line and made progress on elimination of unburned fuels within the line. A significant amount of hose line was strung in areas without road access-in anticipation of future mop-up operations.
***************
Situation as of 08/27/2010 5:00 pm
Personnel: 162
Size: 950 acres
Percent Contained: 0%
Structures Threatened: 100 PRIM
Structures Destroyed: 2 PRIM
State Fire Mobilization Incident. Sixty-five to 100 homes are at risk inside current containment lines. A HEL2 and 6 CRW2 are needed to work steep terrain to reinforce containment lines, eliminate unburned fuel near homes, and reinforce containment line/mop-up hot spots to prevent the wind from pushing the fire into homes or beyond control lines. There are many homes in/around the area located in such a manner that the containment line-by itself-will not protect these houses.
Planned Actions: Protect endangered structures, build line and reinforce existing control line, remove unburned fuel within containment line.
