January 30, 2018 - Bear Butte Fire Update

Bear Butte Fire size update:
     * Due to completion of GPS measurement, the Bear Butte Fire size is reported at 502 acres. Previously the size was estimated at 150 acres.

1-30-18 Pile Burning

Black Hills National Forest continues to pile burn today, 1/30/18.

• Bearlodge fire is planning to burn piles in Boundary Gulch (FSR 801) today. Piles will be visible from I-90 on the South Dakota/Wyoming border.

• Northern Hills fire will be burning piles located west of Iron Creek Lake on Old Baldy Road today.

• Hell Canyon fire is burning piles 2-3 miles SE of Red Bank Spring Campground today.

January 29, 2018 -- Update for Bear Butte Fire

Bear Butte Fire Update

     * The cause of the Bear Butte Fire was escape from a debris burn pile on private property.

January 29, 2018 Pile Burning

Black Hills National Forest is burning piles across the Forest today and continuing as conditions permit.

Mystic Ranger District:

• Planning to burn hand piles within a ½ mile of Silver City; in and around the Sunnyside Gulch area. Smoke may impact the communities of Silver City and may also impact Silver City Road, Jenny Gulch and Highway 385. Smoke may be in the area for several days. 
• Burning hand piles ½ mile east of Hill City and south of Old Hill City Road. Smoke may impact the communities of Hill City and/or Keystone. It may also impact Old Hill City Road, Highway 16, 16A, 385 and 244. 

North Zone:

• Burning machine piles east and west of Rochford, SD. (Dump Draw and Bloody Gulch)
• Conditions permitting, Bearlodge fire will be burning hand piles at Cook Lake Campground, 13 miles north of Sundance, WY. The piles are part of a fuels project in campground loop B, located north/northwest of the lake/dam.

January 28, 2018

Bear Butte Final Post @ 7:30 AM
     * Full containment at 2:00 AM
     * Final size to be determined - Last reported 150 acres
     * Local, state and federal resources responded
     * Cause - Under investigation
     * No evacuations were required

From IC Raymond Bubb, "What a difference a day makes!"

January 27, 2018

Incident #1: Bear Butte Fire

Update at 11:30 pm: From Ray Bubb, Incident Commander, State of South Dakota Fire: 
     * Dozer lines around the fire almost complete. Fire crews are making good progress on strengthening the line. Updates follows. 

     * Reported at 11:40 am - Updated photos at 8:30 pm photos: 
   Updated photos and statement from Ray Bubb, Incident Commander, State of South Dakota Fire: "Fuels burning inside the control lines on the Bear Butte Fire."

   
     * State jurisdiction - Bear Butte State Park, NW side of Bear Butte
     * Approximately 150 acres 
     * Approximately 30% contained
     * County, state and federal resources on-scene. 
     * Evacuations: NO mandatory evacuations. Local area residents on pre-evacuation notice.
     * Incident command post (ICP) established at Bear Butte Visitor Center
     * Media personnel may contact SD Highway Patrol to allow them to travel to ICP
     * Cause - under investigation


 
 
 Photos from Raymond Bubb, Incident Commander, State of South Dakota at 5:00 pm

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January 26, 2018

Spruce Gulch 

• Started January 25th at 7:45pm
• Located off Spruce Gulch Road, east of Deadwood in the Grizzly Gulch burn scar
• Human caused
•  Size is 2 acres
• Local, State and Federal resources on scene