Current Activities: Increasing chance of showers or thunderstorms continues this afternoon into early evening. Erratic winds may accompany these thunderstorms. Forecast calls for drier trend starting Tuesday. District Fire Mangers flew over the fire area yesterday and estimated the size to be 10,300 acres, and observed continued smoldering in heavy dead and downed timber. Official Incident photographs have been updated at inciWeb, and are also shared at: http://s1296.photobucket.com/user/redshalefire/library/ Fire personnel at Gates Park along with Beartop Lookout are monitoring current activities. In addition there is a Type 3 helicopter stationed at the Choteau Airport to support fire management. Two smoke monitors are in service to monitor this region: one at Ear Mountain and one in Augusta. Reports are available on-line; please go to www.inciweb.org/incident/3550 and “Related Incident Links.” Management Actions: Evaluation and mitigation of potential risks to the public, fire...
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