Wildfire — Central Oregon, Oregon

2015-09-01 to 2015-09-03 · Central Oregon, Oregon

Event narrative

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Wider weather episode

The County line 2 fire, started on Wednesday the 12th, in the afternoon. It started along Hwy 26, with multiple starts, on both sides of the Highway. With the weather conditions at the time, these fires quickly exceeded the capabilities of the local resources, and their mutual aid. The State Fire Marshals office, sent their Blue Management Team, along with 8 task force contingents, to help with structure protection. Oregon Interagency Incident Management Team#1, was also ordered, for the wild land component. It is a Unified Command between the two teams. This fire has gone through changing levels of evacuations, and numerous challenges.

Wednesday August 19, 2015 at 0600, the Oregon State Fire Marshal's Blue Team, and all remaining task forces assigned to them were released from this fire. Oregon Interagency Incident Management Team #1, with Incident Commander Shawn Sheldon, will be remaining to be in command of the fire.

Thursday September 3, 2015, at 0600, Incident Command was transferred to a Type 3 team, with Dorian Soliz, as Incident Commander.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 594404. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.