Sorry all, I missed the 7:00 PM fire update due to the housewarming party, but I am on the 9:00 WTIP broadcast. Live blog to follow.
7:00
• concern is the "finger"
• One bit went out to the east end of loon lake, but ok because it hit the burn out area and stopped.
• There was growth on the north end of the finger
• Growth east and west near rush lake (end of the finger), and entering blowdown area. This is a concern.
• The back burn is in progress now (7:00 PM)
• 53,000 acres (+700 today)
• USA: 30,000 Canada: 22,0000
• 134 structures lost total in US and Canada
7:05
• Today was a good day
• Evacuations lifted, from Poplar lake fire hall to west of Voyager point
• Did this because the winds were going the right direction
• Controlled burned occurred later than expected
• Main structure protection on loon and Gunflint
• Today was good, tomorrow looks not so good.
• Tomorrow wind out of the south west
• This might cause a re-decleration of evacuations tomorrow
• Showing a map of controlled burns
• These burns have helped us control this fire
• Back burn is directly south of Gunflint by loon
• Main concern is the finger pushing west or east
• Sag and Seagull has cooled down significantly, thinking about letting people in early next week (on temp basis)
7:10
• 10:00 AM meeting tomorrow
WEATHER TONIGHT
- partly cloudy
- chance of rain
- SE 10-15
- humidity 80%
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