Finishing Up
Incident: Canyon Complex Wildland Fire
Released: 8/7/2008
Canyon Complex
NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: Contact number - (530) 283-9420
Thursday, August 7, 2008, 6:00 a.m. Office Hours - 7:30 am - 7:30 pm
Acres: 37,357 Start date: June 21, 2008
Cause: Lightning Location: Feather River, Mount Hough & Beckwourth Ranger Districts
Containment: 97 percent Fuels: Timber, logging slash, brush and grass
Terrain: Steep, rugged Resources: 4 crews, 11 engines, 3 dozers, 10 water tenders
Total personnel: 403 Available air support: 3 helicopters.
Firefighters are continuing the rehabilitation of the last fire lines on the Canyon Complex on the Plumas National Forest. The French - Bear Fire and the South - Frey Fire were declared contained at 6:00 p.m. yesterday. Only the Scotch Fire remains uncontained due to the inability to safely approach the open line. Small isolated portions of heat remain on the daily infra-red reports of the area.
Some heat remains in the interior of the fire. Smoke will be noticeable in the area for an extended period of time, but that from the Canyon Complex will be diminishing.
At 6:00 p.m. today, the Arizona Central West Zone Incident Management Team will turn over management of the remaining suppression and rehabilitation activities to the Pacific Northwest 2 Team that is currently managing the Rich Fire. The remaining patrol and rehab of the Canyon Complex will be conducted under their management.
The fire information number for the Canyon Complex will be disconnected at noon today. All future inquiries should be directed to the Information Office of the PNW2 team at (530) 283-7882.
The status of the uncontained fires is as follows:
Scotch Fire: 13,009 acres Containment 90%.
For more information see www.fs.fed.us/r5/plumas/ and http://www.inciweb.org/.
Other contacts: Air Quality Info http://www.countyofplumas.com/; Fire Protection Info http://plumasfiresafe.org/; Butte County Fire Info http://www.buttecounty.net/; Cal Fire Website http://www.fire.ca.gov/;
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