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Wednesday, 17 July 2024

Number of structures lost in Holiday Farm Fire up to 723

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Number of structures lost in Holiday Farm Fire up to 723
Number of structures lost in Holiday Farm Fire up to 723

After surveying more structures, fire officials now say 723 structures have been lost due to the Holiday Farm Fire.

Structures have been destroyed.

Kezi reporter emma jerome is live and shows us how firefighters can quickly get out...if weather conditions make things worse.

Rems it stands for rapid extrication module support.

This is a team of four that has deployed here to ensure firefighter safety and if anyone is in a dangeroua situation?

Its their job to get them out of there a rems team arrived from the umpqua basin yesterday to assist with this fire this is video from the fire line today.

We were up off deer horn roads.

You can see its steep.

Rugged.

And visibility is low.

Thats why these teams come out.

Thankfully they havent had any calls for rescue yet but they are ready travis doggett , umpqua rapid extrication module support"39:15 it's pretty treacherous terrain out here it's very steep it's very rugged.

But this is what we've trained for.

We've spent many years training for all these situations" with the anticipated weather system moving in they say theyre expecting to be needed over these next few days coming up later in the hour we hear from an actual fire crew member on the frontlines of this fire about methods used to put it out.

Reporting live from thurston emma jerome kezi 9 news let's get right to chief meteorologist marisa woloszyn with what we can expect from the weather moving into the area.

Satellite/radar: smoke continue.

Showers developing tonight.

Winds: we are looking at light winds.

Air quality:

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