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On September 2, a second fire, the Ferry Peak Fire, was reported a mere two miles northwest of the Uno Peak Fire. Roads and additional trails were closed. [5] The fire had grown to 2,511 acres (10 km 2) by September 4 due to record breaking high temperatures and wind. A voluntary evacuation was put in place for two residences on Lake Chelan. [6]
Lake Chelan (/ ʃ ə ˈ l æ n / shə-LAN) is a narrow, 50.5 mi (81.3 km) long lake in Chelan County, north-central Washington state, U.S. [1] It is an overdeepened lake and resembles a fjord, with an average width of 1.3 mi (2.1 km). Near its upper end, the lake surface lies more than 6,600 ft (2,000 m) below peaks less than 3 mi (4.8 km) away.
The TTB eventually lifted that freeze and approved the petition for the Lake Chelan AVA in April 2009 with the designation slated to take effect in late May 2008. [5] The approval made the Lake Chelan Washington's 11th AVA and the second wine region in the state to be recognized in 2009, following the January approval of the Snipes Mountain AVA ...
The ban was issued in response to several large, human-caused wildfires amid the statewide drought emergency and drier-than-normal weather across Washington. The largest fire at the time was the Pioneer Fire in the Okanogan–Wenatchee National Forest near Lake Chelan, which had grown to more than 12,000 acres (4,900 ha). [2]
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The 2015 wildfire season was the largest in Washington state history, [5] with more than one million acres (400,000 ha; 1,600 sq mi) burning across the state from June to September. [1] As many as 3,000 firefighters including 800 Washington National Guard members were deployed to fight the fires.
Gardner Mountain is the second-highest peak in the Methow Mountains which are a subrange of the North Cascades. [2] It is set on land administered by the Okanogan–Wenatchee National Forest and is the highest point of the Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Wilderness. [2]
Jun. 11—MOSES LAKE — A wildfire along the shore of Lake Chelan necessitated the evacuation of some hikers Saturday, according to a statement from the Chelan County Sheriff's Office. The fire ...