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The fire comes exactly five years after the start of the Holiday Farm Fire, which began 3 miles west of McKenzie Bridge and swept through more than 173,000 acres.
Crews on Sunday are battling a wildfire caused by lightning east of McKenzie Bridge.
The Foley Ridge Fire is burning on a cliff visible from Highway 242, 7 miles east of McKenzie Bridge in the Willamette National Forest, the U.S. Forest Service said Sunday, Sept. 7. The blaze was reported early Saturday evening at 2 acres, and grew overnight and into the morning. In an update released Sunday evening, the Forest Service estimated the size of the fire at 20 acres.
Sunday marks exactly five years since the start of the Holiday Farm Fire, which swept through more than 173,000 acres of land in the region, beginning 3 miles west of McKenzie Bridge.
The Forest Service said dozers — heavy construction equipment adapted for firefighting — and crews are on the scene. A helicopter assigned to the Emigrant Fire, which is burning southeast of Oakridge and spans more than 30,000 acres, is providing water drops.
Crews are scouting locations for containment lines and using direct tactics along the fire’s edge where possible.
Additional resources are en route, the Forest Service said, and crews from the Oregon Department of Forestry also are providing support.
Lane County has been jolted by lightning on numerous recent occasions, including as recently as Saturday night in the McKenzie Bridge area.
Smoke is visible in the vicinity of the fire and may settle into nearby drainages Sunday night and Monday morning, the Forest Service said. Smoke and air quality information is available at oregonsmoke.org/ and lrapa-or.gov/air-quality-protection/current-aqi/.
