Team transfers command at East Fork Fire

With the high-intensity fire suppression scaling down on the East Fork Fire in the Bear Paw Mountains, the top-level incident management team turned the command over to a local management team this morning, although work on the fire is ongoing and the work on cleaning up the damage is just beginning.

The federal Type 1 Great Basin Incident Management Team #2 was scheduled to turn over management at 6 this morning to a local Type 3 management team it helped create this week.

The incident information page continued to list the fire as 90 percent contained at 21,518 acres.

The fire started...