Oregon Dept. of Forestry’s Incident Management Team 1 took over command of the 5,500-acre Sugarloaf Fire Monday morning. The fire team is stationed at Dayville School. The fire is burning nine miles north of Dayville on Bureau of Land Management lands and private lands protected by the BLM. ODF’s team is managing the suppression effort because all four interagency teams are already deployed (to two fires in Oregon, and two in Alaska). Reported Saturday, the fire is burning in brush, grass and timber fuels. It is 20 percent contained. One outbuilding has been destroyed, and a dozen residences are threatened. Cause is lightning.
