Goat Fire Active in Okanogan–Omak Area

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  The Goat Fire is located in a remote mountainous wilderness area of Okanogan–Omak“null”
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  The Goat Fire is currently active“GOAT FIRE: 794 acres | 0% contained”
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  Suppression efforts are underway for The Goat Fire“The strategic objectives for the Goat Fire are to ensure public and firefighter safety by maintaining and enforcing established evacuation levels and area closures, while providing accurate, timely information to the affected communities. Incident management will focus on achieving full containment by using tactics adapted to steep terrain, heavy fuels, and wind driven spread in the sub-alpine fir stands.”
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  Helicopter buckets are being used to combat The Goat Fire“Helicopter buckets are being used in suppression efforts.”
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  The Goat Fire is in steep terrain“Incident Management will focus on achieving full containment by using tactics adapted to steep terrain, heavy fuels, and wind driven spread in the sub-alpine fir stands.”
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  The Goat Fire has heavy fuels“Fuels Involved Timber (Litter and Understory)Brush (2 feet)Dominate fuels include Timber-Understory and Timber-Litter. Regional fuels advisories show live and dead fuels at critically dry levels. One and hundred hour fuels fluctuate due to large swings in RH. 1,000-hour furls are at about 13% and carry fire. Woody live fuels are at about 100%.”
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  The Goat Fire is experiencing wind-driven spread“Fire activity continues to be driven by winds and topography during the day.”
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  The incident management team is focused on public safety“The strategic objectives for the Goat Fire are to ensure public and firefighter safety by maintaining and enforcing established evacuation levels and area closures, while providing accurate, timely information to the affected communities.”
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  The incident management team is enforcing evacuation levels“The strategic objectives for the Goat Fire are to ensure public and firefighter safety by maintaining and enforcing established evacuation levels and area closures, while providing accurate, timely information to the affected communities.”
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  The incident management team is protecting natural resources“null”
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  Closures are in effect“null”
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  Residents are urged to follow official updates for information on safety“null”
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  Residents are urged to follow official updates for information on access routes“null”