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Limepoint Fire Update, Friday 08-23-2024
Limepoint Fire
Publication Type: News - 08/23/2024 - 07:18
Limepoint Fire
Friday, August 23, 2024
Contacts for Fire Information: 208-992-3032 or
2024.limepoint@firenet.gov
https://inciweb.wildfire.gov/incident-information/idpaf-limepoint-fire
https://www.facebook.com/payettenationalforest/
The Limepoint Fire withstood 20 mile per hour winds and yesterday’s elevated fire weather conditions. Crews quickly extinguished embers a single tree threw over the north fireline. Smoky conditions limited helicopter flights, but missions flown by an unmanned aerial system, or drone, were able to guide firefighters to pockets of heat in and around the fireline.
Heavy equipment continued road grading and suppression repair in the Bear and Huntley Gulch areas. Logging equipment is pulling out trees cut when dozers put in a contingency line in Huntley Gulch during the early part of the Limepoint Fire. These will be decked and assessed to determine if they can be salvaged as forest products.
While cooler and wetter weather is forecast for the fire area this weekend, only light precipitation is expected before hot and dry conditions rebound next week. The incredibly active fire behavior elsewhere in Central Idaho and throughout the Great Basin have fire managers laser focused on fully containing Limepoint.
On Saturday morning, Great Basin Team 4 will transfer command of the Limepoint Fire to Nevada Team 5, a type 3 team. The Incident Command Post that has been at the Council Fairgrounds is moving to the Seven Devils spike camp near the community of Bear.
Evacuations: Cuprum remains at a Level 2 (SET) evacuation level and Bear remains at a Level 1 (READY) evacuation level. For your safety and the safety of firefighters, please stay away from the fire area. Only residents and property owners are allowed in the area until further notice.
Closures: The Forest Closure Order issued by the Payette National Forest to protect public safety near the fire area remains in effect. For more information about the closure, visit https://inciweb.wildfire.gov/incident-information/idpaf-limepoint-fire
Restrictions: Stage 1 Fire Restrictions remain in effect for the Payette National Forest and all state, private andBLM lands in the fire area. Under these restrictions, campfires are allowed only in recreation sites within metal fire pits. Fires of any kind are not allowed in any dispersed camping areas.