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Tiger Island Fire: The Tiger Island Fire was first reported on Tuesday August 22nd. The fire is located east of Merryville, south of Hwy 190, SW of DeRidder and North of Singer. The fire is burning in pine planta?ons of mul?ple ages and access to por?ons of the fire area is difficult and fuel loads in these pine planta?ons are high. Heavy residual fuels as a result of Hurricane Laura in 2020 exist and contribute to extreme fire behavior. 

Acreage: 33,294 acres Containment: 50% 

Personnel and Equipment: 180 total personnel; 8 Helicopters, 10 Type-6 Engines, 10 Type-2 Tractor Plow Units, and 15 Dozers. Addi?onal support is being provided by the Na?onal Guard, Parish authori?es, the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, the Louisiana State Fire Marshal Team, Beauregard Sherriff’s office, and the Office of Emergency Preparedness. The Na?onal Guard is suppor?ng with Black Hawk helicopters and 16 dozers and the fire response is using Large Air Tankers, Scoopers and Air Atack from Texas. 

Today: With many addi?onal personnel and equipment arriving yesterday, the focus for opera?ons will be to con?nue to establish dozer lines as direct as possible to the fire edge, mop up areas of heat and to con?nue work on iden?fying structures and ensuring structure protec?on is in place. Along the northern edge of the fire, crews will work to keep the fire south of Stamps Road and Shins Road and west of Schuetz Road. Several spot fires were iden?fied yesterday west of Schuetz Road and dozers lines were quickly established to contain those spots. These areas will con?nue to be monitored today. Fire personnel will con?nue to work twenty-four hours with day and night shi? opera?ons. 

Weather and Fire Behavior: Night opera?ons reported light rain over parts of the Tiger Island Fire last night over a three-hour period resul?ng in minimal fire spread overnight a?er record high temperatures were reported across the region yesterday. Although this rain was not considered a “we?ng” rain across the fire, these condi?ons do provide a window of opportunity for the firefighters today. “We have an opportunity to catch two things today. We can catch a break and catch up,” shares Incident Commander Steve Parrish during the morning opera?ons briefing. The front that brought showers and storms yesterday will push south of the area today, reducing the chances of rain. A?ernoon highs will drop back into the middle 90s with minimum rela?ve humidity dropping briefly into the 40% range. Overall, condi?ons will con?nue to be dry and hot, causing firefigh?ng efforts to con?nue to be challenging. 

Evacua?ons: Updates on evacua?ons and shelters can be found on the Beauregard Parish Sheriff’s Office Facebook Page at htps://www.facebook.com/beauregardsheriff.