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This evening, Great Basin Team 4 will transition command of the Tenmile Fire to a Payette National Forest Type 4 Incident Management Team. This will be the last daily update for the Tenmile Fire.All vegetation removal and chipping operations have concluded. Crews will continue working in the area backhauling equipment and supplies. Hose lay will remain in place as the Type 4 Incident Management Team assumes command and will likely remain in place until a true season ending event.

Chipping operations will continue today on the north side of the fire along NF 318 Road, finalizing indirect containment lines around the entirety of the Tenmile Fire. Operations along Warren Wagon Road, as well as NF 325 Road, have concluded but you may still see fire personnel in the area. Crews have also completed the majority of the vegetation and chipping operation around Burgdorf. The closure orders will remain in place until it is deemed safe for the public to return to the area.

Firefighters have completed all of the preparation and structure protection objectives around the communities of Secesh and Burgdorf. Crews have completed fuels reduction work along Warren Wagon Road and NF 325 Road to create an indirect containment line for the Tenmile Fire as well as prepare for future wildfires. Efforts will continue into the weekend to complete containment features north of the fire along the NF 318 Road and through lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management Cottonwood Field Office.

Firefighters continue to complete control lines around the majority of the fire. Crews have finalized most of the vegetation removal and chipping operations on the eastern, southern, and western sides of the fire. Once those operations are completed, resources will shift efforts to complete the last of the planned control lines north of the fire along NF 318 Road.

   Today, Great Basin Team 4, along with the Payette National Forest, Idaho Department of Lands, and the Bureau of Land Management, will hold a Community Meeting at the Secesh Meadows Community Fire Station at 11 a.m. Personnel from the Incident Management Team will provide updates on the completed operations, the current operations as well as what the community can expect through the week.

There will be a community meeting on Tuesday, September 20 at 11:00 a.m. at the Secesh Fire Station Vegetation clearing and dispersal via chipping operations have been completed along NF-325 Road between War Eagle Lookout and Secesh. Two additional chippers have arrived to expedite chipping operations along roadways and containment lines on the west and north sides of the fire.

Crews continue to clear vegetation and disperse the debris among the forest floor through chipping operations along the NF-318 Road. The fire remains active and continues to hold heat in isolated areas with minimal creeping and smoldering. Yesterday’s clear skies and warmer temperatures increased torching in some areas, which produced smoke columns in the afternoon. 

  

Today, fire crews will begin chipping vegetation debris that was removed along the 325 Road and from surrounding areas. Crews continue to make great progress on constructing containment lines around the Tenmile Fire, reducing the potential of fire impacting the communities of Burgdorf, Secesh, and Warren.

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