A new team took command of the Cameron Peak Fire Wednesday morning as firefighters continued to battle the blaze.
As of 6 a.m. Wednesday, the Portland National Incident Management Organization Team and the Rocky Mountain Team Black assumed command of the fire, which still continues to burn with 0% containment.
As of Wednesday morning, the cause of the Cameron Peak fire was still under investigation.
While firefighters continued battling the Cameron Peak fire and only a day after the Lewstone fire was contained, multiple new wildfires were reported southwest of Ted’s Place near U.S. 287 and Colo. 14 West, northwest of Fort Collins.
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While there was some precipitation in the area today, Tom Barter, operations section chief trainee with the Rocky Mountain Incident Management Team, said in Wednesday’s daily update that the fire itself got little rain, about 1/100th of an inch in the northeastern part of the fire.
With the fire still burning at over 21,000 acres, crews spent today farther north and northeast continuing work on contingency lines. Those closer to the fire worked on assessing and prepping structures and those farther away worked with heavy machinery on indirect lines.
Barter said that the team has received many questions as to why they are not working closer to the fire’s edge. He said that the primary reason is for firefighter safety.
“With our current fire conditions it makes fighting these fires very difficult. There are no safety zones for those guys to go to that are very close,” Barter said. “If we get them in too close and it flares up, with the conditions we have seen, they would be in a bad spot. We don’t have an opportunity to go direct in a lot of this area right now.”
Barter said that another problem they are seeing is that the fire is not just burning along the ground but spotting as well, meaning that the fire throws fires out farther ahead of itself and continues to burn.
“You could have a crew on the edge there and have it throw spots over them and they could get trapped between those,” Barter said. “Right now, we are just looking (at the) big picture for firefighter safety.”
An interactive fire map has also been created for the Cameron Peak Fire to help residents stay informed.
New wildfires near Ted’s Place, Picnic Rock Fire remains
Jered Kramer, a public information officer for LCSO, initially reported that there were two ignitions that LCSO was sizing up Wednesday afternoon: one near Picnic Rock and one near Graves’ Dairy.
Later, LCSO Tweeted that three wildfires had been found, but around two hours after first being announced two of them had been extinguished. LCSO announced in their tweet that the office would assist the Poudre Fire Authority in trying to extinguish the fire near Picnic Rock.
At 6:07 p.m., Poudre Fire Authority tweeted that firefighters are continuing to dig fire lines and work toward containment on what they called the Picnic Rock Fire. The fire size was estimated at two to three acres.
Responders planned to remain on the scene through the night.
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