North Shasta Wildlife Burn Escape 2006

The Shasta-McCloud Management Unit initiated the North Shasta Wildlife (NSW) Burn Project on Monday, February 13, 2006, burning 75 acres, and on Tuesday, February 14, burning an additional 10 acres. The project continued on Thursday and Friday, burning an additional 70 acres and 61 acres, respectively. During the early morning of Sunday, February 26, the Yreka Interagency Communications Center Dispatch reported active fire at the NSW Burn Project area. Evidence at the scene suggests that this fire may have been caused by burning fuel (a remnant from the prescribed fire burn project) pushed by significant wind gusts through containment lines. The wildfire, later called the Hotlum Fire, burned approximately 3,000 acres and spread to both sides of U.S. Highway 97, near the town of Weed in Siskiyou County, California. Mandatory evacuation efforts of the Mt. Shasta Vista subdivision began when the fire jumped the highway. The fire damaged several buildings and vehicles and burned brush, sage, juniper, mountain mahogany, manzanita, and ponderosa pine.

Escaped RX, Prescribed Fire, Escaped Prescribed Fire