Firefighters from the Oregon Department of Forestry and multiple cooperating agencies have fully contained a wildfire burning in logging slash and standing trees along Highway 47 near Clatskanie.
About 50 personnel are on site mopping up the fire, which burned just over 29 acres before being contained. Hoses have been laid to help firefighters water down any burning debris. Investigators will start to look into the cause of the fire. Highway 47 is now reopened.
The fire was reported Sunday at around 11:30 a.m. burning on private ODF-protected land. No structures were threatened. Sunday afternoon a 10-mile stretch of Highway 47 between mileposts 1 and 11 was temporarily closed as some 70 fire personnel from multiple agencies battled the blaze along with two helicopters and two single-engine air tankers.
ODF crews from Columbia City, Forest Grove and Astoria were aided by local fire departments from the towns of Clatskanie, Scappoose, and Vernonia as well as Washington County, Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue, Mist-Birkenfeld Rural Fire Protection District, Knappa Fire District and Columbia River Fire and Rescue, and private landowner personnel.