Reeder Bay Fire

The Silver Fire was detected on the morning of August 23rd, after a thunderstorm the night before produced multiple lighting fires across the region. Two other lighting fires in the immediate area, Silver Dollar 2 and Middle Silver Fires, exceeded initial attack efforts and merged with the Silver Fire. The fire is burning in the subalpine zone in rocky terrain on the southeast side of Silver Dollar Peak, near Roman Nose. Initial attack included aerial water drops from heavy helicopters and the insertion firefighters to suppress the fires.

Posted by the incident management team on InciWeb (inciweb.wildfire.gov).