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2 days ago
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Hope fire grows around 200 acres remaining uncontained
Jul. 13—The Hope fire 5 miles southwest of Northport, Washington grew to 6,526 acres, according to a Sunday news release. Containment remains at 0% but 657 people are working on beating back the flames. The Hope fire started around 1:15 p.m. Tuesday and quickly spread with an estimate on Saturday morning putting it at 6,365 acres. Two primary residences are confirmed to be lost to the blaze, Northwest Complex Incident Management Team 8 spokesperson Thomas Kyle-Milward previously said to the Spokesman-Review. There are no damage estimates. The news release said that on Sunday crews would focus on improving lines on the western and eastern sides of the fire, securing homes to the north and mopping up to the south. Evacuation levels of 1, 2 and 3 remain in effect and the public is still advised to stay out of the immediate fire area. Two evacuation centers are open with the Animal Evacuation Center at the Northeast Washington Fairgrounds and the Red Cross Evacuation Center at Kettle Falls Middle School only open on an on-call basis. Corbin Vanderby's work is funded in part by members of the Spokane community via the Community Journalism and Civic Engagement Fund. This story can be republished by other organizations for free under a Creative Commons license. For more information on this, please contact our newspaper's managing editor.
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3 days ago
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Hope fire size increases to 6,365 acres with no containment
Jul. 12—The Hope fire 15 miles north of Kettle Falls and 5 miles southwest of Northport has increased in size. Updated estimates for the fire put the total at 6,365 acres Saturday morning, up by nearly 750 acres from Friday morning's estimates. It remains 0% contained. The increase in acres is primarily in areas where firefighters already established an indirect line, a fire control line constructed a distance away from the main fire edge, Northwest Complex Incident Management Team 8 spokesperson Thomas Kyle-Milward said. "I don't think it's a situation where it's unexpected growth. It's just the fire kind of moving around in the box that firefighters are creating for it," Kyle-Milward said. The fire started around 1:15 p.m. Tuesday and quickly spread north, driven primarily by wind, according to a news release from the Type 3 Incident Management Team. In a Saturday morning release, officials said fire personnel would work along the western side of the fire and dozer line construction, a fire suppression tactic involving bulldozing flammable vegetation, will begin in the northwest corner of the fire working toward Lael Road. Crews at the north head of the fire continue to establish a containment line, and to the south the Columbia River continues to act as a strong containment tool. On the fire's eastern flank, teams will continue mop-up operations around homes while crews patrol the area. Two primary residences are confirmed to be lost to the blaze, Kyle-Milward said. There are no damage estimates. So far, 546 personnel have responded to the fire. To allow for their safety, the public is encouraged to stay out of the immediate fire area. Level 1, 2 and 3 evacuations remain in effect. The Red Cross Evacuation Center at the Kettle Falls Middle School is only open on an on-call basis. The Animal Evacuation Center at the Northeast Washington Fairgrounds remains open. The cause remains under investigation. Bonny Matejowsky's work is funded in part by members of the Spokane community via the Community Journalism and Civic Engagement Fund. This story can be republished by other organizations for free under a Creative Commons license. For more information on this, please contact our newspaper's managing editor.
