Rocky Mountain Complex Incident Management Team 3

Ryan Sharpe, Operations Sections Chief, discusses firefighting tactics on the #DerbyFire. Firefighters are taking advantage of current weather conditions ahead of a warming and drying weather trend that begins today, Sunday, August 31.

A spike camp has been set up on the east side of the fire. A spike camp is a temporary satellite camp located closer to the fireline – crews will sleep overnight in this location to reduce their travel time to reach the fireline and increase their daily work time. These firefighters are constructing fireline along the eastern edge of the fire moving south.

Crews will be flown in to construct fireline on the west side of the fire today, along with a Rapid Extraction Module Support (REMS) team who can provide highly-skilled medical care in the event of an emergency.

On the south side of the fire, from Sugarloaf Lake moving south, crews continue to improve the fireline. Mop-up and patrol continues along the southern fireline. On the southeast side of the fire, firefighters are constructing line moving north along the eastern fire edge – they will eventually meet up with the firefighters working their way south along the eastern fire edge.

The structure protection firefighters are beginning to backhaul equipment and supplies that are no longer needed in the Sweetwater area due to reduced fire behavior. Initial attack resources have been indentified to respond to any new fire starts within the Temporary Flight Restriction area (TFR) of the #DerbyFire.