Whisky Creek Fire Grows

Cloud cover Wednesday night prevented an infrared mapping flight over the Whisky Creek Fire resulted in no changes in the listed fire size of 288 acres, but officials say it did grow on Wednesday.  The fire is burning within the Mt. Hood National Forest’s Mark O. Hatfield Wilderness and moving steadily along the eastern edge up Woolly Horn Ridge and west towards Waucoma Ridge.  Crews are preparing containment lines to the southeast from Rainy Lake to Wahtum Lake and continuing to the Pacific Crest Trail about one mile to the 2017 Eagle Creek Fire burn area.  To the east of the fire, crews are strengthening a containment line along the Gorton Creek Trail and identifying potential contingency lines further east.  There is a community meeting on the Whisky Creek Fire at 7 p.m. Thursday evening in the Cascade Locks Marine Park Pavilion, and will also be available on the 2024 Whisky Creek Fire Facebook page.

 

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