Fire Crews Partially Complete Ignitions on Willow Piles | Flickr
Fire Crews Partially Complete Ignitions on Willow Piles | Flickr
From February 10, 2023 post.
70 percent of piles on the Willow Piles Prescribed Fire project were successfully ignited Thursday. A fresh layer of snow and weather worked to the crew’s advantage, adding more moisture to the area and ventilating the smoke, lofting and dispersing it.
Fire crews will not continue ignitions on Fri., Feb. 10, due to unfavorable conditions; the ventilation rate is forecasted to be poor. The burn boss will look for another window of opportunity to finish ignitions on the remaining piles next week. In the meantime, crews will perform regular patrols of the piles by snowmobile and snowshoe.
Background on the prescribed fire is available on InciWeb: https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/.../nmcaf-willow-piles...
(Video: A fire crew member drives a snowmobile past a burning pile on Forest Road 91)
Original source can be found here.
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