Live blogging the 7:00 PM conference on WTIP
• Good weather today! "Very good day"
• Lots of clouds, low winds, low temp
• Still, no additional structure losses last night and today. Total structures lost 134 (phew 44 on the wilderness outpost alone)
• $3.7 million lost
• "Good news and more good news"
• Sag is cooling down
• all lines around the fire held today
• The controlled back burn (on wed) was a 100% success and saved the south side of gunflint. It is also cooling off
• The "finger" is more narrow and more west than the map shows
• The "finger" missed all structures
7:10
• 25 teams of 5 fire engines "strike teams" on structure protection
• Bulldozer line off power-line to protect loon and gunflint
• Tomorrow, wind coming out of the east, south east, could push back towards Gunflint
• Info is difficult to transmit. Mostly done by car.
7:15
• This fire is not out. If there is more wind, there will be substantial growth.
• Don't get overconfident, this fire could still make big runs with any wind
• WTIP is on the air until midnight and then back on air at 8:00
• only one meeting tomorrow at 10:00 AM.
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