Fire managers were battling eight fires across the Payette National Forest this week following Friday lightning storm that swept through the region.
Five of these fires were being actively fought fires and ranged from one-tenth of an acre to 136 acres.
The remaining three fires are being allowed to burn for the benefit of the forest unless they become threatening.
On the McCall Ranger District, the Zena Creek Fire was burning eight miles east of Lick Creek Summit. It was 35 acres and being monitored from the air.
There is structure protection in place for Zena Creek Ranch, Payette official said.
The Chimney Rock Fire was burning two miles northeast of Secesh Meadows. It is three acres in size and eight smokejumpers and four repellers were working the fire, which was contained by Tuesday.
On the Krassel Ranger District, the Raines Fire is burning eight miles northeast of Warren. It was one-tenth of an acre and is not contained nor staffed due to lack of safety zones.
In the Council Ranger District, the two-acre Lost Fork Fire was burning 10 miles southeast of Indian Valley.
Eight smokejumpers were working the fire and its status was listed as "controlled."
The Peck Mountain Fire 10 miles northwest of Council was set at 136 acres on Tuesday. Three engines were working the fire, which were listed as "controlled."
Three Wildland Fire Use fires are burning on the PNE The fires are considered beneficial to the forest. They are closely monitored and managed but usually allowed to burn.
The largest of the three was the Tag Fire burning 44 miles northeast of Yellow Pine that had reached 300 acres by Tuesday.
The McCall a Fire 10 miles east of Chamberlain Guard Station was one acre, as was the
Buckhorn Fire 15 miles east of McCall.
Eight fires were reported the past week on private lands protected by the Southern Idaho Timber Protective Association.
Four fires were human caused and four were caused by Friday night's lightning storm, but all were put out by Tuesday, SITPA Fire Warden Mark Woods said.
The largest fire, Bogus Creek, burned 1.6acres west of the North Fork of the Payette River ten air miles south of Cascade before it was controlled, Woods said.
The other lighting-eased fires were:
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Willow Creek: one-tenth of an acre, four miles east of Donnelly.
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Green Mountain: one, tenth an acre, ten air miles east of Lake Fork northeast of the Paddy Flat area.
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Arling: one-tenth an acre, two miles south of Arling Hot Springs on the east side of Idaho 55.
The largest of the human caused fires, called Kennally Creek, started on the north side of Gold Fork Road southeast of Donnelly when fire escaped from a burn bar-re-ad scorched just under an acre.
Other human caused fires reported last week were:
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Comfort included: Escaped campfire in Carefree Subdivision two miles south of McCall.
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Corral Creek Road: Fireworks-caused fire in Cascade.
For updated information on all the current fires in Idaho
See the National Interagency Fire Center
(Scoll down for Idaho)
