Heavy gusts and rain hit the region yesterday, which included the Holiday Farm Fire site. KLCC’s Brian Bull reports on how the weather affected operations.
Despite gusts of up to 40 miles per hour, officials believe no flames were fanned or embers blown past the confines of the fire’s edge. Tom Fields of the Oregon Department of Forestry says that allowed incident managers to divert helicopters over to two neighboring fires that started Wednesday evening.
“We were sending one over to the Lorane area, and on its way, it made a couple bucket drops on the fire near Goshen. And then continued to Lorane to help with that fire.”
An inch of rain also fell, which helped dampen the flames more.
Officials add that despite the rain, fire season is still in effect. Outdoor burning of debris is prohibited.
The Holiday Farm Fire is 35% contained, and holding at just over 173,000 acres burned.
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