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 Current Situation: Monday’s Red Flag Warning proved to be another test of existing containment lines, which held as expected, allowing fire managers to remain confident in the security of the firelines.  Despite the weather conditions, firefighters were able to complete the first phase of suppression repair which was to rehabilitate the secondary firelines created by a dozer.  Firelines, especially dozer lines, create berms of soil and vegetation on the sides of where the dozer cleared.  Suppression repair work pulls the berms back into place, spreading them within the line, and then filling the lines with the slash (or cut brush and limbs). This helps prevent the fire lines from becoming new paths for water to flow and accumulate and helps protect new grass and shrub growth that may follow with rains.  On other parts of the fireline, crews continued patrol and mop-up operations, and backhauled unneeded supplies and equipment.  Unaweep Wildland Fire Module also began collecting fire and fuels data through Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) technology.