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Telephone Fire

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Unit Information

Malheur National Forest 
431 Patterson Bridge Rd 
John Day, 
Oregon 
97845 
Malheur National Forest 
431 Patterson Bridge Rd 
John Day, 
Oregon 
97845 

Incident Contacts

  • Telephone Fire Information (same as Falls Fire)
    Email:
    2024.Falls@firenet.gov
    Phone:
    541-208-4370
    Hours:
    8 AM - 8 PM

Photographs Gallery

Firing Operation on the Telephone Fire near Perry Meadow
Firing Operation on the Telephone Fire near Perry Meadow
Firing Operation on the Telephone Fire near Perry Meadow
Firing Operation on the Telephone Fire near Perry Meadow

Firing Operation on the Telephone Fire near Perry Meadow

Fallers and engines mop up on Telephone Fire
Fallers and engines mopping up on the north side telephone Fire near Buck Butte.
Fallers and engines mopping up on the north side telephone Fire near Buck Butte.
Fallers and engines mop up on Telephone Fire

Faller Shawn Wills (C&K Wildland Fire, Roseburg, OR) working in tandem with an engine from Roaring Fork Fire Rescue (CO) on the north side of the Telephone fire near Buck Butte.

Mop Up Operations Telephone Fire Near Buck Butte
Mop Up operations north side of the telephone Fire
Mop Up operations north side of the telephone Fire
Mop Up Operations Telephone Fire Near Buck Butte

Josh Acceteru of Roaring Fork Fire Rescue applies water to a lingering hot spot on the north side of the Telephone Fire near Buck Butte.

Structure Protection Oregon State Fire Marshall TF-47 on west side of telephone Fire.
Structure Protection Group, west side Telephone Fire.
Structure Protection Group, west side Telephone Fire.
Structure Protection Oregon State Fire Marshall TF-47 on west side of telephone Fire.

Firefighters from Engine 15, Banks Fire District 13 apply heat resistant shielding to a home near the western side of the Telephone Fire. They are attached to  TF-47 from the Oregon State Fire Marshall's Structure Protection Group.

Mop up and Falling Operations north side telephone Fire
Mop up operations Telephone Fire near Buck Butte
Mop up operations Telephone Fire near Buck Butte
Mop up and Falling Operations north side telephone Fire

Firefighters from Roaring Fork Fire Rescue (CO) apply water to lingering hot spots on the north side of the telephone Fire near Buck Butte.

Engine on Pine Creek Rd.
Engine parked next to road.
Engine parked next to road.
Engine on Pine Creek Rd.

Initial attack engine on the pine creek rd. near where Pine Creek comes off the National Forest. Wet meadow is being used to shelter 400 head of cattle. (July 30, credit: Jim Bartlett, PIO)

Navajo Interagency Hotshot Crew 2
Two firefighters clearing shrubs along a road
Two firefighters clearing shrubs along a road
Navajo Interagency Hotshot Crew 2

Photo from the Telephone Fire, where Navajo Interagency Hotshot crews are deployed. They were clearing brush along the edges of Pine Creek Road yesterday, as part of the effort to contain the Telephone Fire, which has been pushed eastward by winds and record-dry fuels.

Telephone Fire Cloud
Fire smoke behind hills and stacked hay in the front
Fire smoke behind hills and stacked hay in the front
Telephone Fire Cloud

July 29 view of Telephone Fire cloud buildup, courtesy of Jake Livingston, Incident Commander

Navajo Interagency Hotshot Crew 3
three firefighters on road moving branches
three firefighters on road moving branches
Navajo Interagency Hotshot Crew 3

Photo from the Telephone Fire, where Navajo Interagency Hotshot crews are deployed. They were clearing brush along the edges of Pine Creek Road yesterday, as part of the effort to contain the Telephone Fire, which has been pushed eastward by winds and record-dry fuels.

Dozer line at Telephone
Three dozers clearing brush up a hill
Three dozers clearing brush up a hill
Dozer line at Telephone

Firefighters are working hard and as fast as possible to put line along the east side of the telephone fire. This photo shows dozer line being put in this afternoon on the southeast corner of the Telephone Fire.
Photo Credit: Trevor Faulkner

Navajo Interagency Hotshots 1
Three firefighters in the shrubs cutting them with chainsaws
Three firefighters in the shrubs cutting them with chainsaws
Navajo Interagency Hotshots 1

Photo from the Telephone Fire, where Navajo Interagency Hotshot crews are deployed. They were clearing brush along the edges of Pine Creek Road yesterday, as part of the effort to contain the Telephone Fire, which has been pushed eastward by winds and record-dry fuels.

Navajo Interagency Hotshot Crew 4
Four firefighters removing shrubs from the edge of a road
Four firefighters removing shrubs from the edge of a road
Navajo Interagency Hotshot Crew 4

Photo from the Telephone Fire, where Navajo Interagency Hotshot crews are deployed. They were clearing brush along the edges of Pine Creek Road yesterday, as part of the effort to contain the Telephone Fire, which has been pushed eastward by winds and record-dry fuels.

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