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Assessment teams are assembling while some recovery work begins
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Currently over 96,000 acres, the Elk Fire has been recently slowed by much needed precipitation. Bighorn National Forest Supervisor Andrew Johnson has informed the public that incoming Rocky Mountain Complex Incident Management Team 1 will be working to keep the momentum of containment but should the dry windy weather return, it may be a long fight.
Johnson said teams are already beginning work to repair some of the damage as precipitation allowed some leeway.
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Agencies at every level will be involved in the recovery process. The damage assessment will be divided among jurisdictions and these teams will be hitting the ground running as time is working against them.
A. Johnson
Like so many producers in the area and those who fought through the Remington and House Draw Fires, the Bighorn National Forest will be focusing on the threats of invasive grasses during the long term recovery.
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Johnson said the fire is still currently active, but as areas become available assessments will begin and work on erosion prevention will be a priority.
Gena Dvarishkis
October 18, 2024 at 8:51 pm
God bless all that’s working to get the fire out.THANK YOU ALL!!!
Harriett Oleson
October 19, 2024 at 8:31 am
THANK YOU FIREFIGHTERS, seems very inadequate.. To fight a fire like that in that terrain…… It has been amazing the silly rumors that the “never been on a fireline coffee clubs” have come up with. FEMA set the fires, rare earth seekers set the fires, 5000 head of elk have been killed, they didn’t make any effort to put out the initial fire, blah, blah, blah, blah…. Some folks just don’t have enough to do and don’t know anything about what they are “blah blahing” about.