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.
Weather is expected to be higher than normal in temperatures and below normal for precipitation throughout next week, reaching into the high 70’s with relative humidity decreasing to single digits. The fire continues to hold minimal heat in some areas and continues to smolder in some of the duff layer of the forest floor. Great Basin Team 4 appreciates the Payette National Forest, the Bureau of Land Management Cottonwood Field Office, Idaho and Adams counties, Idaho Department of Lands, the communities of Secesh, Burgdorf, New Meadows, McCall, Warren and surrounding areas for the support and hospitality they showed the entire Great Basin Team and all personnel involved in the Tenmile and Middle Fires.