The road is impassable between Lucerne and the Village

Photo by Chuck Hoffman © Genesis+Art

Lucerne, Washington  

The Wolverine Fire has grown to nearly 25,000 acres in a very short time. The USFS Type 1 Hot Shot teams are setting up defenses at 25 Mile Creek, Holden Village, and Stehekin. It's reasonable to assume the fire will end up going to each of these lines of defense.

Regarding Holden Village, the best estimate is that the fire is 3 to 4 miles away. The road is impassable between Lucerne and the Village, so teams will be airlifted in. The leaders of the fire teams are impressed with what they are finding up at Holden. Our Rain Birds and metal roofs will help in their efforts. We expect them to leverage and increase the value of what we have in place, add to those defenses with water and pumps of their own, and plan and utilize backfires to defend the Village should it come to that.

We have roughly 25 Holden staff cleaning up brush and fuel around our Lake Haus and getting sprinklers going at all of our down lake properties right now. It's likely that all of these properties will be issued a Level 1 EVAC notice and could be evacuated. The Holden business office is moving from the B&B to Chelan Lutheran Church. The USFS is also planning to relocate their command center from 25-mile to Chelan.

With good courage, Peg + Chuck

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