Conditions described here were accurate only as of the date shown and may have changed. This is not a substitute for current official information from the agency with jurisdiction. See the full notice. Full notice.
Dome Fire at 86 Percent; Yosemite Takes Back Command Thursday
No change to the perimeter in several days. Crews are pulling out hose and repairing firelines; the trails inside the fire stay closed.
Containment on the Dome Fire has reached 86 percent, the incident's InciWeb page says, with no change to the perimeter in several days. The fire stands at 6,788 acres. Activity is minimal, and any smoke visible is from pockets of heat in the interior. The federal incident report shows 746 people still assigned, down from more than 900 last week, and an estimated final cost of $60 million.
The work now is cleanup. Crews, mule trains and helicopters are removing hose and equipment from remote wilderness. Suppression repair has begun: along secondary hand lines, crews are pulling berms back to match the terrain and scattering vegetation to hide the lines and limit erosion. California Interagency Incident Management Team 4 is scheduled to hand command back to Yosemite on Thursday, October 15.
After a cold Tuesday with highs in the 40s, a warming, drying trend brings highs in the 50s and near 60 on Wednesday and Thursday, with light winds.
Glacier Point Road is open. Every trail inside the active fire footprint remains closed, including all south- and eastbound trails from Glacier Point Road, Ostrander, Mono Meadow and Buena Vista. The Chilnualna Falls, Alder Creek, Four Mile and Panorama trails are open.
Sources