Oregon: Bryant Fire, south of Bonanza

(UPDATE at 1:23 p.m. PT, June 22, 2014)

From the Oregon Department of Forestry Sunday morning:

Yesterday’s heavy use of air retardant helped prevent the fire from spreading beyond the control lines. Sixteen loads of retardant were dropped from large air tankers and eight loads were dropped from small Single Engine Air Tankers known as SEATs. Helicopters were extremely busy all day long responding to fire fighters requests for drops on the hottest spots. Today, helicopters will continue dropping water along the southwest side of the fire.

With almost ten miles of fire line around the perimeter of this fire, fire fighters are laying hose and fittings for the next phase of holding the line and beginning mop-up on the cooler portions of the fire. The fire had slight growth due to the fire burning up to the control lines the fire fighters had established. Fire fighters continue to work diligently to stop the fire from spreading southward. A small amount of line remains to be constructed there.

They are calling it 1,327 acres and 15 percent contained.

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(UPDATED at 7:55 a.m. PT, June 22, 2014)

Map of Bryant Fire, at 9 pm, June 21, 2014 — Map of the Bryant Fire. The red line was the perimeter at 9 p.m., June 21, 2014 The red line is from 24 hours earlier, on Friday night.

Very little new information is available about the Bryant Fire, burning in southern Oregon 25 miles southeast of Klamath Falls. When it was mapped Saturday night the size was estimated at about 1,260 acres.

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(UPDATED at 7:33 a.m. PT, June 21, 2014)

3D Map of Bryant Fire, looking west at 11 pm, June 20, 2014. (click to enlarge)

The Bryant Fire south of Bonanza and southeast of Klamath Falls, Oregon was mapped at 1,300 acres late Friday night while the fire was very actively burning. It started Thursday afternoon on privately owned land in an active logging operation in felled and bucked timber on steep terrain. An Oregon Department of Forestry Type 2 incident management team assumed command Friday evening.

Map of Bryant Fire, at 11 pm, June 20, 2014. The white line near the bottom is the California/Oregon border.

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Bryant Fire at 3:45 p.m. PT, June 20, 2014 — The red and yellow squares represent heat detected on the Bryant Fire in southern Oregon by a satellite at 3:45 p.m. PT, June 20, 2014. The locations of the squares are accurate to within about a mile. (click to enlarge)

The Bryant Fire in southern Oregon was reported at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, 10 miles south of Bonanza, 25 miles southeast of Klamath Falls, and 3 miles north of the California border. (See the map above.) Friday morning it had burned 836 acres, but there is an unofficial report Friday evening that the ODF said it has doubled to about 1,600 acres, all on privately owned land.

Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) Incident Management Team 1, with Incident Commander John Buckman, will assume command of the fire Friday at 6 p.m.

A Type 2 State Fire Team has been ordered to take over the management of the Bryant Fire at 6 p.m. today. pic.twitter.com/kx64tWZ2Np

— SCOFMP Fire Info (@scofmpfireinfo) June 20, 2014