North Zone Pine Hollow Fire update – Aug. 2, 2017
Fredonia, Ariz., Aug. 2, 2017 — For Immediate Release. Firefighters observed an increased amount of backing and flanking fire behavior
along ridgelines yesterday as the lightning-caused Pine Hollow wildfire increased to an estimated size of 1,600 acres.
“Backing and flanking typically equates to less intense fire behavior,” said Type-4 Incident Commander Paul Lemmon. “With less extreme fire behavior there is usually less fire growth, less torching
and fire consumption is more focused on ground fuels like the heavies, pine litter and duff. Fire behavior is more intense on the ground and less so in the canopy, which helps us meet one of our management objectives for this wildfire; to use fire to thin
ponderosa pine regeneration and reduce surface fuel loads to approximately 5 tons-per-acre.”
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Name: Pine Hollow Wildfire
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Started: Wednesday, July 19, 2017
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Cause: Lightning
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Location: The fire is west of Big Springs Field Station in the vicinity of Little Mountain
on the North Kaibab Ranger District of the Kaibab National Forest.
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Size: Approximately 1,600 acres
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Planning Area Boundary: 10,295 acres
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Fuels: The wildfire is burning in ponderosa pine fuel type and debris left from the Pipeline
Fire of 2009
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Resources: 1 Type-4 Incident Commander, 1 Type-3 engine, 2 Type-6 engines, 1 fuels crew
and 1 patrol
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Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy then becoming mostly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
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Expected Actions: Continue monitoring fire behavior and implement firing operations as needed. Additional fire activity updates may be obtained through the following sources:
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Kaibab National Forest
Website:
www.fs.usda.gov/kaibab
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InciWeb:
https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5402/
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Kaibab National Forest Fire Information phone line: (928) 635-8311
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Text Message
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‘follow kaibabnf’ to 40404
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