From: SWOFIRE
A crew of six rapellers is bashing a fire line around a 3-acre forest fire in the deep woods 17 miles west of Glendale in Josephine County. The fire is on Bureau of Land Management land in the Kelsey Creek drainage, and is in a densely forested area on very steep ground. There are no roads in the vicinity.
Rapellers were dropped by helicopter around 7:30 a.m. today and a second helicopter is dropping big buckets of water onto the fire.
Investigation into the cause of the fire has revealed lightning as the likely culprit. The last thunderstorm took place the evening of July 19 and the early morning hours of July 20. Lightning detection from that storm registered several strikes in the Kelsey Creek drainage.
Brian Ballou / ODF SW Oregon District