An Oregon Dept. of Forestry (ODF) fire team Saturday morning assumed command of the suppression effort on the 2,000-acre Douglas Complex fires in Douglas County. ODF’s Incident Management Team 2 took over the fire
suppression effort from the Douglas Forest Protective Association (DFPA) at 8 a.m. on July 26. The incident command post is located at the
Glendale High School in the community of Glendale.
Thunderstorms Friday
morning ignited 54 fires on DFPA’s protection jurisdiction. A majority of the fires in the Complex are located in the Cow Creek Canyon west of Glendale. A handful of fires in the Milo area are included in the Complex. The total number of fires is expected to decrease, as several fires in close proximity to each other have burned together.
Central and southcentral Oregon experienced thunderstorms Friday evening. Today ODF and its partner agencies are locating and suppressing new fire starts from this latest lightning event.