The Pilot Fire tripled in size overnight, growing to 4,500 acres on Aug. 8, 2016.
August 9th, 2016National Interagency Coordination Center Incident Management Situation Report
Monday, August 8, 2016 – 0530 MT
National Preparedness Level 3
National Fire Activity
Initial attack activity: Light (164 new fires)
New large incidents: 10
Large fires contained: 1
Uncontained large fires:** 32
August 8, 2016
Thirty-five large fires have burned more than a half million acres in 12 states. Ten new large fires were reported, three in Idaho, two in Texas and one in California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. Firefighters have done an excellent job with initial attack of lightning fires across the West.
Canada deployed a Convair 580 airtanker group to support wildland fire operations in Montana. Two military C-130s equipped with Modular Airborne Firefighting Systems (MAFFS) are deployed to Boise, Idaho to support fire suppression throughout the Great Basin.