Fire personnel continue to make their way into the fire area to assess current control lines and identify additional potential control line locations. The steep, remote terrain has made access challenging, requiring crews to carefully scout for the safest and most effective routes around the fire’s perimeter. The north end of the fire is the most difficult section to access due to rugged terrain.

Where conditions allow, firefighters are working to establish both direct and indirect containment lines. Direct lines occur along the fire’s edge where crews can safely engage next to the fire perimeter. In areas where steep slopes, heavy fuels, or hazardous conditions make direct engagement unsafe, firefighters build indirect lines, placing containment further away from the active fire front to take advantage of safer terrain and natural barriers.

On the southeast side of the fire, crews are focused on constructing an indirect line to strengthen containment. Meanwhile, on the northwest corner where the fire was in a small corner of a designated Wilderness Study Area, a Hotshot crew is assessing the safety and feasibility of building direct line to complete containment in the WSA.