75% contained

A few pictures from the last couple of weeks:


Some big smoke columns:





(That is our house)

Pretty much the entire wilderness area burned. About 41,000 acres.


The bridge was load tested! :

Heading up toward Hogback Mountain:

Keep it simple! :


Water tank set up at the Winterburn cabin:

The fire is mostly contained. There is still some chance that the fire could flare up but things are looking pretty good right now.

Fire Map

Here is the latest fire map:

The green is US Forest Service land and the dark green is designated wilderness area.

Things are still looking good in our area.

Fire Update

The Meriwether fire is now at about 32000 acres.

It is looking better for our area. The fire is mostly contained near our house and they have lifted the evacuation for Beaver Creek.



The fire is still burning a lot of ground a few miles North of us.

The picture below is of the burnout at American bar. The red arrow points to the house where the previous pictures were taken.

We also made the front page of the Helena newspaper. They have a picture of the bridge:

More pictures can be seen at:

http://www.inciweb.org/incident/pictures/871/