Newell Road Fire At 71% Containment

Containment of the 61,313-acre Newell Road Fire in east Klickitat County is now at 71 percent and is expected to continue to increase as suppression efforts continue.  Dave Robertson of Northwest Incident Management Team 8 says fire activity has remained minimal with only a few interior smokes and hotspots to extinguish, with most attention remaining on the northwest corner of the fire.  Although the strength of containment is going up, smoke coming from the interior of the fire, sometimes from miles inside containment lines, is likely to be visible.  Air operations will be conducting an aerial reconnaissance over the fire this morning to provide ground operations information in support of suppression efforts, including identification of areas for future suppression repairs.  Transfer of command of the fire back to local fire and agency resources is planned for Sunday morning.

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