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Becker FFR Escaped Prescribed Pile Burn 2021

  • Incident Information:

    Becker FFR Pile Escaped Prescribed Fire Review.pdf

  • Location:

    Oregon

  • Date:

    04/27/2021

  • Incident Type:

    Wildfire Declaration

  • Description:

    On April 27, 2021, the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Vale District Fire and Fuels Management Unit (Oregon) conducted a prescribed pile burn on public land in the Malheur Field Office that resulted in an escape, which was subsequently declared a wildfire per direction of the agency administrator and the FMO. Resources that were planned to check the prescribed burn discovered the escaped wildfire the morning of April 28, 2021 and the spread had mostly been stopped on its own overnight. The wildfire was contained at 5.75 acres that burned outside of the burn unit onto adjacent private land.

    Prescribed Fire, Escaped Prescribed Fire

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