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Safety Message- Please prepare for the upcoming holiday weekend and be aware of forest and road closures.  Fire crews and heavy equipment will be on the roads, so please drive with extra care for your personal safety and the safety of the firefighters. 

Fire Behavior:
 Haypress:  Firelines around Coffee Creek/Three Sisters will continue to actively back to the east and south at moderate rates of spread.  Contained lines along Cecilville/Callahan Road will continue to smolder/smoke and the fire will continue to actively back to the road.  The Parker spot fire will remain active and grow to the north in uncontained firelines. 

Summer Fire:  Areas with intense heat on the west end will continue to grow into Plummer creek, and will also back towards the Cecilville road at slow to moderate rates of spread.  The south end of the Summer fire has many areas of intense heat that will continue to spread. High elevation barriers such as rock systems and change of vegetation will limit fire growth.

Cronan Fire:  Unburned islands will continue to actively burn.  Crews will be working to hold the fire within containment lines, as rollout is still a threat. 

Weather:  It will be a warm and dry day, with a lot more sunshine and less smoke than previous days.  There will be light winds with some ridgetop gusts.  Temperatures will fall 5-10 degrees, but humidity levels will remain relatively low. Skies will clear, but smoke may stick in drainages through mid-day. 

Today:       

• Construct and improve fire line in all divisions where conditions allow, and personnel and equipment are available.
• Point Protection in the communities of Coffee Creek, Summerville, and Cecilville 
• Scout, perform structure triage assessments, and build control line west of Coffee Creek,
• Trinity Center, and Hwy-3 corridor to protect these values.
• Insert resources and construct direct fire line on the spot fire in the Parker Meadow to mitigate threat to       
• the Hwy-3 and Trinity Center areas.

Resources:  

·       796 Personnel, 8 Helicopters, 45 Engines, 19 Dozers, 29 Water Tenders, 9 Masticators, 2 Skid-Steers, 3 pack mule strings

Evacuations: 

Evacuation Order: Cecilville, Summerville, Petersburg, and Coffee Creek Road Past Sugar Pine Trailhead in Trinity County.

Evacuation Warning: Sawyers Bar, Coffee Creek, Trinity Center

For specific information regarding evacuations, please visit https://www.co.siskiyou.ca.us/emergencyservices or https://www.trinitycounty.org/OES

An evacuation order means there is an immediate threat to life and is a lawful order to leave immediately.   An evacuation warning means there is a potential threat to life or property.  Those who require additional time to evacuate and those with pets and livestock should leave now.

Road Closures: Trinity County has issued a hard closure of Coffee Creek Road at North Fork Trailhead west of Hwy 3. The Callahan-Cecilville Road is closed from approximately one mile west of the community of Callahan to Cecilville.  The Sawyers Bar Road is closed from Forks of Salmon to Forest Road 40N51. 

Forest Closures:  The following National Forests are under Emergency Forest Closure, effective from August 22, 2021, at 11:59 p.m. through September 6, 2021, at 11:59 p.m.: Klamath National Forest, Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Six Rivers National Forest, Modoc National Forest, Tahoe National Forest, Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, Plumas National Forest, Mendocino National Forest, and Lassen National Forest.

For more information, please visit https://www.fs.usda.gov/

Smoke Report:  https://wildlandfiresmoke.net/outlooks/NorthernCalifornia