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Hotshot Crews Ordered as Dome Fire Spot Fires Push Past 6,600 Acres
The fire grew about 470 acres Friday. Containment holds at 40 percent, and the weekend stays hot and dry.
The Dome Fire is 6,632 acres and 40 percent contained this morning, the Park Service says, about 470 acres larger than Friday's 6,159. There are 765 people assigned, and more interagency hotshot crews have been ordered and are arriving.
The growth came from the northeast, where several spot fires started Thursday afternoon in wind and low humidity. That corner is now the top priority. Crews held the furthest spot fire to limited growth on Friday with help from aircraft, and the arriving hotshot crews are there to contain the rest.
Elsewhere the fire is quieter. Today crews are reinforcing containment lines on the south end and working the fire's edge from south to north on the east and west flanks. They have made good progress in the north and will work the western flank from north to south.
The weekend will not help. Saturday is sunny with highs in the 70s, well above normal, and humidity dropping into the teens. Light morning winds turn southwest at 5 to 8 mph with gusts around 15.
On closures, the two federal sources do not match. The closure order posted with the incident on InciWeb now includes the Mono Meadow and Buena Vista trails; the park's daily update still lists only Glacier Point Road, the Chilnualna Falls trail and the trails beyond it toward Buena Vista and Crescent Lakes, and the Ostrander Lake Trail and everything south of it. Treat the Mono Meadow and Buena Vista trails as closed. The Four Mile and Panorama trails to Glacier Point remain open.
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