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Sekhar Padmanabhan, Staff Reporter
Jul 29 at 10:23 AM EDT
South Rim Fire Information:
Key message: Cooler weather with persistent cloud cover over the fire area on Monday helped reduce fire activity in the remaining pockets of heat within the fire perimeter. As the threat of fire spread diminishes each day, firefighters are beginning the process of backhaul. Suppression repair work nears completion under the guidance of Resource Advisors. The BAER team conducted field assessments yesterday and will start analyzing the data they collected to provide recommendations to land management agencies.
Current situation: For the past several days, fire operations have focused on suppression repair activities, to restore areas disturbed by firefighting activities as much as practicable. The Resource Advisors have been overseeing these efforts, ensuring that they meet established standards. Fire managers estimate that this stage of the fire response will be complete by Wednesday.
Many crews are now working on backhauling equipment, including portable water tanks, hoses, fittings, sprinklers, and pumps. All of the fire suppression equipment used during the firefight needs to be packed up and hauled out of the fire area to a staging area where it can be cleaned, properly packaged, and shipped back to the regional fire cache to be made available for other fires in the region.
