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Fire crews secure Bootleg Fire perimeter

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Days of cloud cover and light rain has enabled fire crews to make significant progress battling the Bootleg Fire. As of Sunday morning, containment had jumped to 74 percent.

As of Sunday, the entire perimeter has been closed and crews are working to expand the width of the line, extinguish residual heat and flames, cut snags so they don’t roll downslope taking embers with them, and use bulldozers to straighten the ragged edge on the east side of the fire. Because there has not been more spot fires or breaches of the line, the Incident Management Team has been able to allocate resources to focus on the active areas of the fire and strengthen fire line.

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