Firefighters are facing fatigue after the Monroe Canyon fire doubled in size with another round of evacuations.As of Friday, the fire was around 11,000 acres and by Sunday, it reached almost 21,000 acres with just 13% containment.
“We were pretty spread thin last night, it was a pretty rough night. As far as we can tell, we’re holding what we got, but it’s still pretty dicey,” said Matt Call, Operations Section Chief with Great Basin Team 3.
Call walked the public through the trouble areas Sunday morning, with Magleby being one of them.
“That was pretty dicey. We’re still going in there and assessing. There was a fair amount of heat going through there,” Call said, “we do have crews actively accessing that, assessing damage, taking trees to hazard trees down.”
“As far as the fire damage, fire damage that has happened and will happen is done now. It’s just kind of picking up the pieces and putting out some of the smoldering masses so we don’t get any more damage in there,” Call added.
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