Grizzly Creek Fire August 16, 2020 Update

Yesterday’s Activity: Skies were clear early in the day as the inversion lifted causing higher temperatures and a more active fire. By midafternoon the fire on Fire Situation: Grizzly Creek Fire – 25,690 acres the north flank made a run from grizzly creek to Coffee Pot Road. The fire did spot across the road, but firefighters were able to catch it as the fuel types Start Date: Aug. 10 transitioned from timber to sage. Location: Spot fires from the previous night grew together and moved towards Bair Ranch. Dozer line around Bair Ranch and structure protection measures, were Containment: 0% successful in holding back the fire resulting in no loss of structures. Fire on the southeast edge is holding just shy of Spruce ridge. Heavy smoke in late afternoon Resources: was due to the fire pushing between the Deadman canyon and Devil’s Hole Hand Crews: 15 Helicopters: 13 Canyon. The fire has moved to the canyon rim and is holding. Activity in the No Engines: 32 Name area was quiet as the containment lines held and crews worked to bring in Water Tenders: 7 water with hose lays and aerial water drops. Dozers 4 Feller bunchers and other logging Today’s Activity: Firefighters will continue implementing structure protection equipment measures around the gondola at Adventure Park and will move north to Transfer Total Personnel: 625 Trail with heavy equipment building indirect line. Crews will work to keep fire south of Coffee Pot Road by constructing and reinforcing control lines. Crews InciWeb: will engage the fire where they safely can. Direct attack of the fire has been https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6942/ Facebook: difficult due to the rugged and steep terrain. Firefighters will hold and improve https://www.facebook.com/GrizzlyCreekF line construction as fire comes out of deep canyons. At this time the fire is held ireCO up on Spruce Ridge, however, there are stringers of heavy timber that are Twitter: @fire_grizzly concerning. Contingency line to the east will be implemented by heavy equipment. Today heavy air tankers will be shared with the Pine Gulch Fire. Fire Information Line: (970) 930-1850 Daily operations video updates will be posted on the Grizzly Creek Fire facebook Media Line: page. Maps and other information will also be posted on inciweb at (970) 930-1089 https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6942/. Office Hours: 7am-10pm

Email: [email protected] Evacuations: Please go to Garfield County website at www.Garfield-county.com and Eagle County at www.ecemergency.org, as well as on official FaceBook accounts.

Road Closures: I-70 continues to be closed between Glenwood Springs and Gypsum, with no estimated time for reopening. Forest Service Road 400, Eagle-Thomasville Road, is closed due to excessive traffic and accidents resulting from drivers attempting to use this primarily dirt road as an alternate to the I-70 closure. Cottonwood Pass Road in Garfield and Eagle counties. Coffee Pot Road, Transfer Trail and Clinetop Mesa roads and areas of the Flattops accessed by those roads are also closed, as well as many surrounding White River National Forest and BLM roads. For more information regarding road closures: www.cotrip.org

Area Closures: BLM recreation sites and boat ramps on the southern portion of the River Road (RD 301) near Dotsero, Colorado. Specifically, Cottonwood Landing boat ramp, Lyons campground and boat ramp, and Dotsero boat ramp.

Fire Restrictions: Stage 2 Fire Restrictions are in place for all jurisdictions. https://colorado.gov/pacific/dfpc/fire-restriction- information

A temporary flight restriction is in place over the fire area. If you fly, we can’t http://knowbeforeyoufly.org/