Mills Canyon Fire WA and Moccasin Hill Fire OR

There have been two fires burning in the northwest that I have been hearing about recently in the news: The Mills Canyon Fire burning easy of Seattle, WA and the Moccasin Hill Fire burning near Lakeview OR. These are but two of several wildfires that are currently burning in Washington, Oregon, and California. Stay safe everyone and thanks for all you do to keep us safe.




direct link to video (posted July 9, 2014)

The Mills Canyon Fire, started on July 8 has burned 22,571 acres and is currently at 25 percent containment. You can see a small sampling of the aerial resources (helos and one of the DC-10 tankers) that worked the fire in the second video that I embedded above. Evacuations were in place on July 13th (for more information go here. Some photos are available from this inciweb page.

There is a thread on the Wildland Fire Hotlist for the Mills Canyon Fire. Bill Gabbert of Wildfire Today wrote about the Mills Canyon Fire on July 10th, 2014 and updated on July 13th.

Some media reports:
KATU on July 10 with photos and a video
Fox News (July 12)

Moccasin Hill Fire (OR)

I believe that I learned about the Moccasin Hill Fire from a crawler on one of my local news broadcasts this morning. According to a fire update on an Oregon Dept. of Forestry Wildfire Blog, this fire has burned an unknown number of residences and evacuations were in place yesterday (July 13th). According to the Inciweb page for the Moccasin Hill Fire, the fire started Sunday afternoon, July 13th at  about1:15 PM PDT, has burned 2,000 acres and is not contained (based on information from late in the evening of July 13th) Information on aerial resources (including helos and tankers that worked the fire yesterday may be found in this news release

For more information:
Wildfire Today on the Moccasin Hill Fire
KVAL (July 13th, 9 PM PDT)

Edited and revised on November 30, 2015 to remove dead link.