Nearly three weeks after it began, the Blackburn fire is expected to reach 100-percent containment on Wednesday, according to fire spokesperson David Morman.
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The Government Flats Complex Fire was listed at 85 percent contained Wednesday night, and fire crews are down to 552 personnel, about half of what was used at the height of the fire.
Blaze containment advances Rain and lighter winds than expected helped keep the Government Flats Fire Complex in check Thursday. After growing at a rate of two to three thousand acres a day this week the Blackburn fire had only increased from 11,040 acres Thursday morning to 11,247 acres Friday morning, bringing the total complex up to 11,542 acres.
Fire complex balloons to 11,335 acres, burns a fourth home A change in wind direction and the threat of evening thunderstorms had firefighters worried as the day shift headed out to the Government Flats Fire Complex Thursday morning.
A change in wind direction and the threat of evening thunderstorms had firefighters worried as the day shift headed out to the Government Flats Fire Complex Thursday morning.
Winds have shifted toward the northwest over the Blackburn Fire this afternoon, prompting fire commanders to increase the evacuation level on houses at the end of Cherry Heights Road near Wells Road from Level I "Ready" to Level II "Get set," according to David Morman a spokesman at the Government Flats Fire Complex incident command.
A level three evacuation order was issued for Obrist Road Monday afternoon as the Blackburn Fire escalated.
Nighttime fire crews reported a good night on the Government Flats Fire Complex as they returned to camp this morning, Monday, Aug. 19, but the Blackburn Fire remains a challenge.
An afternoon estimate of the Blackburn Fire, burning in part of The Dalles watershed lands, partly Bureau of Land Management lands and partly on private land places it at 550 acres.
PORTLAND — Firefighters and rainfall blunted a grasslands fire that threatened an Eastern Oregon city. Two overnight showers dropped a tenth of an inch of rain, slowing the flames enough for authorities to lift be-ready-to-leave notices given Thursday to neighborhoods at the edge of John Day.
