The Grapevine Fire is estimated astatine 26,464 acres and is present 78 percent contained, the Bureau of Land Management said Friday.
Firefighters proceed to fortify and unafraid containment features crossed the fire, located successful Lincoln County’s Caliente area, arsenic conditions inclination warmer and drier. Crews stay focused connected patrolling the perimeter, identifying residual vigor sources, and reinforcing lines up of day winds.
Caliente is astir 140 miles northbound of Las Vegas.
Crews proceed utilizing some nonstop and indirect suppression tactics wherever vigor remains, including securing line, extinguishing hotspots, and addressing interior vigor pockets.
Suppression repair enactment is besides progressing, with firefighters and dense instrumentality operators seeding disturbed areas with approved autochthonal effect mixes, mulching vegetative debris to amended ungraded contact, restoring dozer lines and roadways, and continuing manus rehabilitation successful locations wherever mechanized instrumentality cannot beryllium used.
Weather and occurrence behavior
Temperatures proceed to warm, with highs successful the precocious 70s to little 80s crossed the occurrence area. Relative humidity whitethorn driblet beneath 10 percent, and southerly to southwest winds volition summation successful the afternoon, producing elevated occurrence upwind conditions.
Closures
Beaver Dam State Park remains closed owed to ongoing firefighting operations and volition enactment closed until conditions let for harmless nationalist access. Eagle Valley Reservoir reopened to boating.
A Fuels and Fire Behavior Advisory remains successful effect done July 10 owed to importantly drier-than-average substance conditions that tin enactment accelerated occurrence growth, long‑range spotting, and fires that are hard to contain.
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