Bolt Creek Fire grows to 9,440 acres

The Federal interagency Northwest Washington Incident Management Team 8 firefighters took control today, deploying heavy resources

The Bolt Creek fire grew to nearly 10,000 acres yesterday although a sense of relief was palpable as the feds rolled NW Incident Management Team 8 (Team 8) on sight, arriving like an occupying army.

Nearly 400 agents, hundreds of cherry red trucks, 42 pieces of heavy machinery, five initial attack teams and four helicopters arrived in total with the mandate to battle this fire to its predicted containment date of October 1.

The Bolt Creek fire is located 1.5 miles north of Skykomish, Washington.

The fire was detected the morning of September 10th and spread rapidly that day. It escaped initial response due to strong east winds and challenging terrain.

A Type 3 team managed the incident until September 13, when it was turned over to Northwest Washington Incident Management Team 8, a Type 2 team.

Within a couple hours the team 8 PIO had a designated Facebook, Twitter, webpage and incident command page up and had already delivered a media briefing complete with a slick facebook video.

More on that and on today’s fire conditions in our live blog:

https://www.thejournal425.com/p/live-updates-bolt-creek-fire/comments