Twin Falls
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Spud Butte Fire
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Location: five miles southeast of Carey
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Size: 4,093 acres
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Contained: 7/16/2018 at 9 p.m.
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Control: 7/18/2018 at 8 p.m.
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Resources:
four engines, Carey Rural Fire Department, one
dozer
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Fuel type: grass and brush
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Fire behavior: smoldering
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Structures threatened: no
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Cause: lightning
Brown Fire-
Final Update
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Location: 10 miles southwest of Hammett
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Size: 470 acres
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Contained: 7/16/2018 at 10 p.m.
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Control: 7/17/17
at 9 a.m.
● Resources: all
released
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Fuel type: grass and brush
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Fire behavior: smoldering
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Structures threatened: no
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Cause: lightning
East Fork Fire
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Location: approximately 26 miles southwest of Castleford
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Size: estimated
at 6,000 acres
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Contain: unknown
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Control: unknown
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Resources: Three Creek Rangeland Fire Protection Association, six engines, two BLM battalion chiefs, one dozer, one hotshot crew, one water tender, BLM camp crew
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Fuel type: grass and brush
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Fire behavior: smoldering, creeping and running
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Structures threatened: not at this time
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Cause: lightning
East Sailor Fire
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Location: six miles south of Hammett
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Size: estimated
250 acres
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Contained: 7/17/18 at 1
p.m.
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Control: 7/18/18 at noon
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Resources: Saylor Creek Rangeland Fire Protection Association, three engines
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Fuel type: grass and brush
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Fire behavior: smoldering
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Structures threatened: no
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Cause: lightning
Mud
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Location: 12 miles north of Richfield
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Size: estimated
55 acres
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Contained: 7/17/18 at
noon
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Control: 7/19/18 at 6 p.m.
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Resources: four engines, one BLM battalion chief
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Fuel type: grass and brush
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Fire behavior: smoldering
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Structures threatened: no
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Cause: lightning
Elephant Fire
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Location: six miles south of Hailey
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Size: 4 acres
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Contain: 7/17/18 at 8 p.m.
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Control: 7/19/18 at 8 p.m.
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Resources: one Sawtooth National Forest engine, one BLM engine, eight smokejumpers, one type two IA crew
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Fuel type: grass, brush, timber
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Fire behavior: smoldering
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Structures threatened: not at this time
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Cause: lightning
Berger Butte Fire
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Location: seven miles southeast of Castleford
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Size: estimated
1,700 acres
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Contained: 7/16/18 at 10 p.m.
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Control: 7/17/18 at 7 p.m.
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Resources: Salmon Tract Rangeland Fire Protection Association,
Shoshone Basin Rangeland
Fire
Protection Association, Gooding Rural Fire Department water tender, five
engines
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Fuel type: grass and brush
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Fire behavior: smoldering
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Structures threatened: no
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Cause: lightning
For More Information,
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Kelsey Brizendine, Fire Information and Prevention Officer,
kbrizendine@blm.gov
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208-308-5991
