Incident: Holloway Wildfire
Released: 14 hrs. ago
Aug. 10, 8 p.m., Denio, Nev.: Aerial mapping of the Holloway fire shows the fire has burned 259,599 acres since Aug. 6.
"It may have grown about 40,000 acres in the last 24 hours, but it didn't double in size," Chris Ourada, Holloway's incident commander pointed out. The fire was mapped Friday from the air using global-positioning equipment.
The fire has burned 101,607 acres in Nevada and 157,992 acres in Oregon.
The Holloway fire was active Friday near Trident Peak, southeast of Denio, in Nevada. On its north flank, the fire has now reached Whitehorse Creek, in Oregon.
One fire observer reported the fire was burning on its north side in dozens of "fingers," rather than as a solid wall of fire. Firefighters plan to continue using bulldozers on the north side on Saturday.
The terrain near Trident Peak doesn't lend itself to bulldozers, so crews will build line by hand on Saturday.
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