Coldwater Fire - Mogollon Rim Ranger District

[Nighthiker]

Apx. Four miles South of Clint's Well (Also know as Happy Jack)and apx. 475 acres. Big smoke plum late this afternoon.

[Sredfield]

I came by the fire on 87 this afternoon, saw a FS crew walking along the highway with a drip torch. Seems to be burning the pine needles and not much else. Hope it gets the underbrush and doghair pine.

[topohiker]

I went to the Blue Ridge Reservoir yesterday. The north bound lane of the Beeline is closed from FR300 for about 3 miles. ADOT has a pace vehicle leading traffic back and forth on the south bound lane. I had to wait about 20~30 minutes for the pace car. The forest service had FR300 blocked off with vehicles and was only allowing fire personal through. It appears that they are doing a prescribed burn on the east side of the bee-line (probably in case the Cold water fire gets to close to the bee-line) . The forest service was using the north bound lane to monitor the fire. There was numerous small fires all the way from FR300 to about 1 mile south of Clints well turn off. All of the FR roads north of FR300 and east of the Bee-line are closed.

Coming back home about 11pm both lanes are open. The smoke is very heavy in this area. The visibility was down to 5 feet at times. The smoke lasted about 6 miles and cleared up about a mile south of FR300. The forest service has FR300 blocked with vehicles still at this hour. With darkness, the fires stands out like a lighters at a rock concert. The highest concentration of fires was around the rim road.

[DixieFlyer]

It looks like they have closed the forest in an area bounded by Highway 87, Rim Road 300, and FR 141: https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/photos/AZCOF/2 ... 2115-0.pdf

[Grasshopper]

Coconino NF- Mogollon Rim Ranger District "Official Temporary Closure Order" for Coldwater Fire area:
(This Order becomes effective June 12, 2019, at 3 p.m. and will remain in force until rescinded or until September 1, 2019, whichever event occurs first.)

ColdwaterFire_closure_order_06_03_19-11-F.docx

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[chumley]

@Grasshopper
This is in the post above yours, from 8 days ago (with the addition of a convenient map).