Incident Media Photographs

Members of the Yakama Hand Crew are carrying rolls of hose up a fire line on the southeast edge of the fire. A hose lay will be placed along the fire line to provide water to extinguish burning logs and stumps. The large woody fuels can burn for days or even months if not extinguished thoroughly.

Members of the Yakama Hand Crew are building fire lines on the southeast side of the fire in Division O. Two sawyers are cutting a large log to make a gap in it where a fire line can be built. After large woody fuels have been cut and moved off of the intended trail, smaller fuels like brush, roots, non-woody plants, and duff are cut, dug, and/or scraped until there is a break in the fuels down to the mineral soil. This gap in fuels on the ground, or fire line, is key to stopping the fire spread.

A timber faller is cutting a large hazardous snag or dead tree. The Williams Mine Fire is burning in the 2012 Cascade Creek Fire burn scar, which has many standing dead trees. These snags may be rotten and can fall unexpectedly, endangering fire personnel working nearby. Burning snags can also emit a shower of sparks, which can be blown by the wind, creating spot fires 1/4 mile or more from the main fire.

Smoke billows from the Williams Mine Fire, obscuring the lower slopes of the south side of Mt. Adams on 8-11-24

Smoke from the Williams Mine Fire glows from flames below and the sun's last light to the west, at sunset on 8-11-24. The top of Mt. Adams is visible north of the smoke, and stars are beginning to appear in the sky.

The Gotchen Creek Guard Station is the oldest historic structure on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.

Heavy equipment working to create a fire barrier on 8/8/24