
The Bolt Creek Fire 42 miles north-northeast of Seattle is producing smoke that is moving into Everett and Bellingham. 11, 2022 Bolt Creek Fire, mapped by a fixed wing aircraft at 8:21 pm Sept. Thanks and a tip of the hat go out to Patrick. The white line was the perimeter about 48 hours previously. The red line was the perimeter at 7:41 p.m. The fire will not spread rapidly under these predicted conditions. The humidity is expected to remain mostly in the 80s and 90s through Sunday. On Monday and Tuesday there is a 13 to 16 percent chance of very light rain, about 0.03″. Tuesday night the RH will rise to 100 percent and drop to only 86 percent on Wednesday. The spot weather forecast for Tuesday predicts temperatures around 60 degrees, minimum RH of 87 percent, and light winds becoming 5 to 6 mph in the afternoon out of the northwest. “It’s been a good day today for firefighters,” said Jim Cahill, a Washington State Department of Natural Resources spokesperson Monday evening.Īs of Monday night US Highway 2 was closed from Milepost 32 to Milepost 50 and the community of Index was under a “Go Now” evacuation order.

Bolt Creek Fire 3-D map, looking NNW at 7:41 p.m. A weather station at Index northwest of the fire recorded very light winds Monday with the RH ranging from 57 to 92 percent, conditions not conducive to rapid fire spread. The fire activity was very much diminished Monday by much higher relative humidity. In several places it has spread downhill nearly to US Highway 2. When the Bolt Creek Fire was mapped Monday evening it had burned about 9,400 acres.
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He explained that he debated about publishing it, but did so “as an educational tool to point out all of the mistakes we made that ended up putting our lives in danger.”ĭuring the escape they used wayfaring skills and technology tools to figure out how to descend the very steep slopes while avoiding the fire, which was at times exhibiting extreme flame lengths many times the heights of the trees, as you can see in the above image from their video. The two of them shot video off and on during the entire hike, and on Sunday “Path Least Taken” posted an expertly-edited version on YouTube. The two hikers who found themselves nearly entrapped by the rapidly spreading Bolt Creek Fire in northwest Washington near Skykomish have posted a video describing how they escaped.Īfter nearly reaching their goal of the top of Baring Mountain on Saturday September 10, they realized the smoke noticed earlier was from a fire that started that morning and had become a threat to their lives. Updated map for #NakiaCreekFire from CRESA. 16, 2022.Įvacuations for approximately 1,000 homes are in effect at the Nakia Creek Fire 9 miles north of Washougal, Washington 11 miles northeast of Portland, Oregon. Smoke from wildfires in western Washington, 3:26 p.m. Those rains can’t come fast enough! /uWK2fdYYAC Ooof we can see the plume of the new #LochKatrineFire from Mount Baker ridge. A Type 2 Incident Management Team will assume command on Monday.

Aviation resources are being used where they can be effective. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest 30 miles east of Seattle had burned about 2,000 acres at the last estimate Sunday afternoon. The Loch Katrine Fire on private land and the Mt.
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Hilary Franz, the state’s Commissioner of Public Lands gave an update at about 2:20 p.m. Red Flag Warnings Sunday afternoon predicted 10 to 20 mph winds out of the southeast gusting at 25 to 30 with relative humidity in the low 20s.


Strong winds out of the east and southeast are increasing the spread of wildfires in Western Washington. PDT OctoMap of wildfires in western Washington, 3 p.m.
