Grasshopper wildfire continues in Badger Creek area
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00:00
Fire shows arrived at the grass hopper incident.
00:10
Columbia, copy. Is that arrived at grass hopper?
00:20
Columbia dispatch, crash operator, IC trainee, five point.
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Crash operator, IC trainee.
00:33
Columbia zone, good morning.
00:41
Hey, good morning.
00:42
I want to let you guys know all resources are in place and LCS is in place and everyone's engaged at this time on the line.
00:50
Break.
00:57
We'll have crews working the west, south, and east flanks of the fire today.
01:03
Fire activity has subsided through the night.
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We had smoke output this morning.
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It's continuing to burn in the Badger Creek Wilderness area and moving north.
01:14
Break.
01:22
The swap over that occurred last night grew.
01:26
To about 80 acres estimated, with several other little spot fires picked up through the night.
01:34
We'll be working on getting that contained this morning, and then continuing operations.
01:43
And lastly, operations has been in touch with you guys about orders for air resources this morning, and we'll keep you updated through the day.
02:00
Columbia Cascade, that copy is all.
02:02
Biggest thing, read back there.
02:05
Just wanted to verify is still moving north towards the Bad Creek Wilderness and growth about 80 acre.
02:13
Operations been in contact about air support for the day.
02:16
Resources are in place.
02:24
Yeah, as for clarity, the slopover south of Forest Road 4810 was estimated about 80 acres, and that's what we'll be engaged on to get around that this morning.
02:34
And we'll keep the size the same as the last update from yesterday until we can get an updated size from air attack.
02:46
Okay, copy that.
02:47
He jumped over the road, and you guys will be working on that today.
02:50
We'll wait for an accurate size-up from aircraft or air attack today before we do an official increase.
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