{"id":1315546,"date":"2019-10-11T13:31:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T19:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=989093"},"modified":"2019-10-13T09:49:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T15:49:47","slug":"middle-mamm-fire-update-little-activity-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/middle-mamm-fire-update-little-activity-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle Mamm fire update: little activity Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"849\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/MammCreekFireUpdate-rct-082919-2-1024x849.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/MammCreekFireUpdate-rct-082919-2-1024x849.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/MammCreekFireUpdate-rct-082919-2-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/MammCreekFireUpdate-rct-082919-2-768x637.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The 1,001-acre Middle Mamm Fire produced little fire activity Thursday.<br \/>The fire, south of Rifle, remains predominantly on national forest and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands.<br \/>Thursday, according to a news release, fire crews patrolled the fire, improved containment lines, identified hot spots and mopped up where necessary.<br \/>Additionally, two type one helicopters spent Thursday afternoon conducting water drops along the fire\u2019s edge.<br \/>Crews were expected to continue patrolling Friday, monitoring lines and mopping up. Officials anticipate the fire to smolder as temperatures warm up, which may produce visible smoke Friday afternoon.<br \/>Smoke may be visible from I-70 between Silt and Glenwood Springs as well as from the city of Rifle.<br \/>Closures are in effect for the area of the fire in the White River and the Grand Mesa national forests. Additionally, a closure order is in place on BLM lands near the fire. These closures may impact rifle season hunters in Game Management Unit 42 as a portion of Forest Service Trail 2160 remains closed between the intersection of Beaver Creek Trail and Mudd Hill Road and a portion of Battlement Trail is closed between the intersection of Brush Creek Trail and East Brush Creek Trail.<br \/>Access to West Mamm Road also remains under restricted access.<br \/>According to the news release, these closures will remain in place to ensure firefighter and public safety.<br \/>A temporary flight restriction is in place for the area immediately around and within the Middle Mamm Fire. Monday, a drone incursion caused air resources to be grounded during prime flying conditions. The public is reminded that drones are not allowed in or around active wildfires.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/middle-mamm-fire-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1,001-acre Middle Mamm Fire produced little fire activity Thursday.The fire, south of Rifle, remains predominantly on national forest and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands.Thursday, according to a news release, fire crews patrolled the fire, improved containment lines, identified hot spots and mopped up where necessary.Additionally, two type one helicopters spent Thursday afternoon conducting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 19:24:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1315584,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315546\/revisions\/1315584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}