Twin
Falls District BLM Fire Update
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Twin
Falls District BLM Fire Management, along with our rural fire department
partners, are responding to multiple starts throughout the district. Fires
listed below are confirmed fires, with resources responding and/or on scene.
New fires will be posted to social media accounts, then included on later fact
sheets.
Wilson Fire
● Location: approximately
two miles northeast of Hazelton
● Size: estimated
250 acres
● Containment:
estimated 7/7 at 10 p.m.
● Control:
estimated 7/8 at 8 p.m.
● Resources: two Boise
BLM engines, one Boise BLM dozer, three overhead, three Twin Falls BLM engines,
one water tender
● Fuel type: grass,
brush
● Fire behavior: running
and smoldering
● Structures
threatened: none
● Cause: undetermined
Cinder Butte Fire
● Location: approximately
five miles northeast of Hazelton
● Size: estimated
25 acres
● Containment: unknown
● Control: unknown
● Resources: First Segregation
Rural Fire Department, two Twin Falls BLM Fire engines and two single engine
air tankers (SEATs)
● Fuel type: grass,
brush
● Fire behavior: running
● Structures
threatened: none
● Cause: undetermined
Crest View Fire
● Location: approximately
four miles northeast of Hazelton
● Size: estimated
30 acres
● Containment: estimated
for 7/6 at 10 p.m.
● Control:
estimated for 7/7 at 5 p.m.
● Resources: one Twin Falls BLM Fire engine
● Fuel type: grass,
brush
● Fire behavior: running
● Structures
threatened: none
● Cause: undetermined
For More Information,
● Kelsey
Brizendine, Fire Information and Prevention Officer, kbrizendine@blm.gov
● 208-308-5991
