{"id":32760,"date":"2023-07-22T16:32:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T16:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=32760"},"modified":"2023-07-22T16:32:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T16:32:37","slug":"newell-rd-fire-grows-to-more-than-6000-acres-historic-dot-grange-hall-reported-lost-columbia-community-connection-news-mid-columbia-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=32760","title":{"rendered":"Newell Rd fire grows to more than 6,000 acres, historic Dot Grange Hall reported lost &#8211; Columbia Community Connection News Mid-Columbia Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">19:00 Water scarcity is a problem.  Tanker 180 and FGD43 are both on fire right now.  Two more tankers arriving from Redmond, OR.  Currently receiving water from Roosevelt for tenders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">18:39 from WA-DNR: New <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/newellroadfire?__eep__=6&#038;__cft__[0]=AZXS8FpNQ8IGxnICNvTuxUCDWh9LLkHjpXBQZGXgKRsrpgImPA_pUfqWQ6dbx4KEABoegTT_1Lp5D6vae_ZAUOOoUEi5GV3U6VHcCR9VuuEQTOsHSK34y9cWm913HMn4kdyuouAwX19foY200WK0GbCD&#038;__tn__=*NK-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NewellRoadFire<\/a> 600 acres and growing, 0 percent contained.  Engines and planes deployed in collaboration with regional resources.  DNR strike team en route.  Type 3 team ordered and mobilized.  Threatened structures.  Follow @waDNR_fire on Twitter<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">6:33pm The fire is coming hard at the wind farm, the southern boundary is now old highway 8. The plume is low and fast, moving east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">6:30 pm East Road is now the eastern boundary for LEVEL 3<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">6:13 p.m. Dot Road is closed The fire jumped a mile past Dot Road eastbound<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">18:10 The fire is now 500 feet past Dot Road heading east<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">18:07 Fire south of Newell Road now moving east;  approaches the wind farms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">18:03 Cattle reported pushing on Dot Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">18:01 Unofficial reports that the fire plume has doubled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">18:00 South Cleveland\/Bickleton area is now LEVEL 3 &#8211; GO NOW<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">17:56 Fire has jumped to Newell Road on the north end of the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">17:54 FGD53 and Tanker 180 returned to Moses Lake for more retardant \/ refueling;  Tankers 162 and 168 are still working on fire along with spotter aircraft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">5:53 p.m. Activation of the state mobilization of fire resources<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">5:36 pm Tankers 162, 168 inbound from Redmond, OR<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">17:35 Tanker 158 inbound from Moses Lake, WA<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">17:33 Tanker 538 inbound from Olympia, WA<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">5:32 p.m.  Crews take the defensive on Dot Road for all units;  protection of the structure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">17:24 Fire crosses Dot Road<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">17:23 Northbound line is Bickleton Highway;  the east line is East Road<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">17:20 The fire has reached Dot Road<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">17:18 Arrival of 2 Super Scooper planes;  three fire chiefs already on the scene<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">17:16 Level 3 evacuation alert for East Road (near the dump).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">5.14 pm The fire has three heads;  one is burning eastward toward Dot;  and also have reports of fires burning SSE towards Newell Rd.  and the other burns toward White Creek<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">4:30 pm 4 homes with level 3 evacuation on Dot Rd<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">WIND mostly westerly, although variable in the canyon.<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/columbiacommunityconnection.com\/the-dalles\/breaking-news-fire-on-newell-road-near-bickleton-wa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19:00 Water scarcity is a problem. Tanker 180 and FGD43 are both on fire right now. Two more tankers arriving from Redmond, OR. Currently receiving water from Roosevelt for tenders. 18:39 from WA-DNR: New #NewellRoadFire 600 acres and growing, 0 percent contained. Engines and planes deployed in collaboration with regional resources. DNR strike team en route. Type 3 team ordered and mobilized. Threatened structures. Follow @waDNR_fire on Twitter 6:33pm The fire is coming hard at the wind farm, the southern boundary is now old highway 8. The plume is low and fast, moving east. 6:30 pm East Road is now&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}