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Thursday, August 28, 2014

FINAL Fire Update 8-28-14

TWISP, WA: The Upper Falls, Little Bridge Creek, and Carlton Complex Fires are all at 100% containment. Fire crews are finishing all suppression repair work within the burn areas and then fires will all go into a monitoring status. The incident command center located on the Twisp-Carlton Road will begin to be disassembled and removed over the weekend into early next week.

This is the final fire update for all three fires. Information boards have been removed from the communities of Twisp, Carlton, Winthrop, and Mazama.

Inciweb, the Google Blog Site, and the Google e-mail lists used during the incident will no longer be active or updated. For continuing questions, please contact the Methow Valley Forest Service Ranger District in Winthrop at (509) 996-4003 or go to their website: http://www.fs.usda.gov/okawen   

With Labor Day Weekend fast approaching, there are key pieces of information that will be useful to those planning trips to National Forest Lands in Okanogan County.

Campfires are allowed in developed fire pits in the designated campgrounds and in the Pasayten and Lake Chelan Sawtooth Wilderness areas.

Campsite number three in Foggy Dew campground is closed because of concerns about flooding and debris flows.  The remaining 11 campsites in Foggy Dew Campground are open.

There are still some road and area closures associated with this summer’s fires and the recent flooding.  The South Summit area, south of Highway 20, remains closed.  The area around Falls Creek Road is closed, as is the area around Little Bridge Creek Road.  Finley Road #4100300 and Pole Pick Mountain Roads #4100500 and 4100535 are impassable.

The Incident Management Teams and Firefighters involved would like to thank the local communities that were impacted, for their patience and support during the suppression of the Carlton Complex, Uppers Falls, and Little Bridge Creek Fires.

Post Clean-Up and Recovery Helpful Links

The Okanogan Conservation District: www.okanogancd.org/Carlton

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS): http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/national/programs/landscape/ewpp/#actualContent.

Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER): http://centralwashingtonfirerecovery.info/



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