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Full Suppression Strategy in Place for Sheering Fire

Crews Utilizing Indirect Tactics Due to Extreme Firefighter Safety Concerns

SONORA, California, June 28, 2024— The Sheering Fire is burning in an area with excessive snags, hazard trees, and dead and down fuel within the 2013 Rim Fire footprint.  Firefighters with the Stanislaus National Forest’s Mi-Wok/Summit Ranger District have implemented indirect attack tactics on the Sheering Fire while maintaining a full suppression strategy.  

                “The area where this wildfire is burning is loaded with dead and down, there’s spots where the down trees are nearly chest high, there’s just no way we could safely put firefighters into that area,” said Mi-Wok/Summit District Fire Management Officer, Shaun Craig.

                Sandwiched between Duckwall and Bell Mountain near Cherry Lake, the lightning caused fire has been burning since June 25 with resources currently on scene. Burn scars from the Quarry Fire (2023), Bone Fire (2023), and Rosasco Fire (2019) provide secondary barriers to East, West, and South. 

                Craig said his team is currently evaluating the best locations to put in control lines.         

For more information please contact Forest Public Affairs Officer, Benjamin Cossel at Benjamin.cossel@usda.gov or 209.288.6261.