LOLO Go — A team has taken about at the Granite Move Complicated fires with command transferred from the Northern Rockies Variety 1 Group to a Missoula Ranger District Kind 3 Workforce.
The Granite Move Intricate fires have found tiny alter with a full of 5,758 acres burned and are 15% contained.
A fire information and facts line at (406) 624-9176 among 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. day by day.
MTN Information
A full of 33 structures are threatened by the Granite Go Advanced. There are 155 men and women assigned to combat the lightning-sparked blazes.
The Granite Pass Intricate fire consists of 4 fires burning on the west facet of Highway 12 in the vicinity of the Lolo Move Visitor Heart.
Lolo and Nez Perce-Clearwater Nationwide Forests
BM Hill Hearth: 4,882 acres, found about 1.25 miles north of the Lolo Move Customer Heart and one particular-fifty percent mile west of Highway 12. There was a small improve in fire activity due to incredibly hot and dry circumstances on Thursday. A neighborhood Style 1 helicopter executed various bucket-drops together Granite Creek Street (#9942) to suppress a team of torching trees. Crews continued to put into action immediate suppression steps on hotspots inside of the fire perimeter discovered by the return of heat and dry weather conditions ailments. The large tools taskforce ongoing to make progress on constructing indirect line towards the southwest close of the hearth, utilizing old trails and other options.
Nowadays, perform will carry on alongside Granite Creek Highway and the 595 Road to suppress isolated warmth as hearth activity improves. Also, crews will continue on to patrol and keep an eye on the handle strains on the northeast side of the fireplace. Indirect line building will continue on towards Crooked Fork Creek on the southwest aspect of the fireplace. Firefighters will keep on to scout and establish immediate line tying into roadways and ridges in which feasible as they perform towards Shotgun Creek.
Lolo Nationwide Forest
Lolo Creek Fire: 165 acres, situated close to one-quarter mile west of Highway 12 and 1 mile north of the Lolo Move Customer Centre. Crews have accomplished management strains on the hearth perimeter and the fire is in patrol status.
Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests
Shotgun: 517 acres, positioned roughly two miles south of the Lolo Go Visitor Middle and 4 miles west of Highway 12.
Boulder Creek Fire: 175 acres, situated around 5 miles west of the Lolo Go Visitor Middle.
The Shotgun and Boulder Creek fires are in pretty remote, steep, and rugged terrain. Hearth distribute has been nominal due to the 2015 Boulder Hearth scar where by constrained fuels are out there. Road accessibility has been granted by means of non-public land alongside the southern perimeter of the fireplace. Fire personnel are scouting roadways and terrain functions on both of those the Shotgun and Boulder Creek Fires to place powerful oblique containment traces.