Teton Interagency Fire

10/10 - Significant amounts of snow have fallen on the fire and it has been declared out.

This fire is approximately 13 miles east of Afton, WY.

As incident complexity has decreased and containment increased, the Type 2 incident management team—Great Basin Team 3—transferred command of the fire to a local Type 4 organization as of Sunday, September 30, at 6 a.m.

Fire has been turned over to Type 4 Incident Management. Mop-up and suppression repair efforts continue.

Link to Incident on www.inciweb.com

This fire is approximately 4 miles west of the Sherman Creek Guard Station and 2 miles to the north of Horse Creek Road. Fire behavior is smoldering with some torching in a mix of grass, brush, timber, and slash. Firefighters from the Big Piney and Pinedale Ranger Districts are currently taking full suppression actions on the fire.

10/11-  Satellite fire detection and heat monitoring apparatus have not picked up any activity in the area or with the fire's perimeter for over a week. Weather over the fire area has produced a mixture of rain and snow, limiting any new growth or activity on the Yellow Mountain Fire.  

10/5- No new reports for this fire as the cooler and moist weather has reduced the fires activity. Managers will continue to actively manage the fire until the fire is out.

Located on Skyline Drive below Elkhart Park.

This small fire was detected late in the evening as a tree torched along the ridge line and making the flames visible to homeowners living in along the Snake River in Teton County. Teton interagency helicopter flew the fire and found a small 1/4 acre fire burning within a stand of heavy mixed timber. Two West Yellowstone Smokejumpers are suppressing the fire and will hike off the fire after is has been contained and controlled. The fire is a lightning start from the storm passing over the area later this last week.

This lightning caused fire is burning approximately one mile north of the Beaver trailhead. Fire behavior is smoldering in grass and sage in an isolated stand of timber. Firefighters from the Big Piney and Pinedale Ranger Districts have hiked in to the fire and are taking suppression action at this time.

Five firefighters from the Pinedale and Big Piney Ranger Districts have hiked in fire and will be fully suppressing the fire using Minimum Impact Suppression Tactics (MIST)