Elk Creek Fire Update for Friday 10-11-24

The Sheridan County Sheriff’s Office last night asked the community to avoid the Beaver Creek Road area to allow firefighters and other emergency responders to access the area.

While the road was not closed, they asked people to stay clear of the area

According to the Big Horn National Forest: What you saw last night was the interaction of the fires they set reaching a ridge-line and interacting with the wildfire. They know it looked scary, but they looked at it and saw  operations working. They will continue to monitor, but the fire is moving together, like waves, with the strategic firing operation from yesterday coming from the top and the main fire body coming from the bottom.

Strategic firing operations may sound scary, but are done to make things safer. Firing operations occur when fire managers want to intentionally reduce the amount of unburned fuel between their indirect fireline and the main fire. This is a carefully planned process, with operations being done in small sections in ideal weather. The intention is to introduce fire and burn it back towards the main fire.

The fire they create significantly reduces the risk of the main fire burning past their firelines, which would threaten communities and other values at risk. Photos  from yesterday’s firing operations in the Big Goose Canyon area, which were conducted to cut off the fire’s eastward growth are on the SM Facebook page.

Within the next 24 hours residents in Story will see two green waste trash dumpsters placed in Story.

These will only be for PINE NEEDLES, PINE CONES and SMALL BRANCHES.

If these dumpsters are filled with other material then they will be removed, so please only use for SMALL green waste material.

The sites will be at Story Park and at Tunnel Hill turnout.

These are being provided to help prepared your properties.

Please don’t abuse this free service!

A HUGE Thank you to County Trash for doing these dumpsters!

We encourage everyone to monitor the Sheridan County Facebook page and the Sheridan County website for the most up-to-date information.

For Questions you can call the Sheridan County Emergency Management at

307-752-2174  or go online to the  Sheridan County Web Site: www.sheridancountywy.gov

Follow them on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SheridanCountyGovernment for live updates.

You can also go to SheridanMedia.com and the Sheridan Media Facebook Page.