Rattle Fire Update -- Oct. 6, 2008 (mon.)
Incident: Rattle Wildland Fire
Released: 10/6/2008
The 3810 Road between the junctions with Roads 300 and 360 will remain closed. Other roads where crews are chipping brush and trees may be temporarily blocked.
The 5851 Road in the Willamette National Forest is also scheduled to re-open on Tuesday.
The following trails will also re-open:
1532 -- Illahee Flat Trail
1534 -- Bulldog Rock Trail
1539 -- Illahee Lookout Trail
1543 - Fuller Lake Trail
1414 -- Marsters segment of the North Umpqua Trail
All trails adjacent to and within the Boulder Creek Wilderness remain closed, including #1486, #1487, #1488, #1491, #1492, #1493, #1535, #1552, #1553, #1554, and the Jessie Wright and Deer Leap segments of the #1414, or North Umpqua, Trail.
Steamboat Falls campground will be re-opened; Boulder Flat and Eagle Rock campgrounds will remain closed.
On Sunday, firefighters did road work and chipping along contingency lines, and will continue the work today.
Under a transition plan signed Saturday, Jim Valentine's Type 3 team will turn responsibility for the fire over to the Umpqua National Forest at the end of shift Wednesday.
More information can be found at
www.inciweb.org/incident/1510 or www.fs.fed.us/r6/umpqua.
