(information from Watch Duty)
Cottonwood Fire
Patricia Jacobs
Staff Reporter
About 16 hours ago • Mar 18 at 6:48 PM
The fire is now 78% contained, per the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC).
Liam Winstead
Manager of Operational Intelligence & Mapping
About 19 hours ago • Mar 18 at 3:30 PM
An interior pocket of unburned fuels is producing smoke just west of Jeffrey Reservoir, per the Cottonwood Fire Facebook page. The area burning is surrounded by previously burned areas. Similar behavior is expected for several days due to multiple unburned islands existing in interior portions of the fire’s perimeter. Resources are monitoring the interior of the fire while also securing the fire’s perimeter.
Additionally, burnouts and work is being conducted by the National Guard in the Jeffrey Lake area, per Brady Nebraska VFD on Facebook.
A new perimeter has been uploaded by the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) showing the fire to be 128,036.1 acres. The perimeter is visible on the Watch Duty map under the Active Fire Perimeters map layer.
Morrill Fire
Sekhar Padmanabhan
Staff Reporter
About 2 hours ago • Mar 19 at 8:54 AM
A new fire perimeter showing the fire to be 642,759.2 acres has been uploaded to the National Interagency Fire Center and is visible on the Active Fire Perimeters map layer.
Note: Fire perimeters are preliminary and indicate general burn area but do not reflect structure protection efforts by firefighters. A structure within a fire perimeter may not be damaged or destroyed.
Patricia Jacobs
Staff Reporter
About 15 hours ago • Mar 18 at 7:14 PM
The fire is 67% contained per the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC).
