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  "title": "2026 Chelan Hills Fire Entrapment and Escape — incident catalog",
  "description": "Foraged media and GIS links for the 2026 Chelan Hills Fire and the July 4, 2026 initial-attack entrapment and escape, compiled about 19 days after ignition. The fire was reported shortly after midnight PDT on July 4, 2026 near mile marker 233 on US-97, about one mile north of Orondo in Douglas County, Washington, on the east bank of the Columbia River opposite Chelan Falls. It burned 9,861 acres of grass and brush on steep river-breaks terrain, was declared 100% contained at noon July 10, killed one civilian (found in a burned vehicle that left the roadway), destroyed more than 100 structures including at least 19 homes, and put about 500 people under Level 3 evacuation. It was determined human-caused and is under criminal investigation by the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, with a $25,000 county reward. Midafternoon on July 4, under a Red Flag Warning with winds near 20 mph gusting 30, the fire crossed McNeil Canyon Road below crews working structure protection. In the following minutes a hand crew drove through more than 200 feet of flame impingement on both sides of the road in zero visibility, navigating by centerline rumble strips; its lead pickup struck a stopped civilian vehicle it could not see; one crew carrier and one Type 6 engine were destroyed; a brush truck was fire-damaged with windows destroyed; an engine left the roadway in the smoke and its two crew members took refuge behind a building with fire shelters out and in hand until a Task Force Leader reached them; no shelters were deployed. Three mutual-aid firefighters were hospitalized with burns and smoke inhalation and released. Fire carried through about 75% of the designated Safety Zone itself. The authoritative lessons record for this event is the Rapid Lesson Sharing report 'Chelan Hills Fire Entrapment and Escape' published by the interagency Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center; this catalog exists to point at it and at the surrounding public record in support of the wildland fire community's lessons-learned sharing. The RLS names no individual firefighters in its narrative, only roles, and this catalog follows that practice. This catalog holds 34 items: 20 media items (the RLS, official state and county records, local and regional press, two public-domain InciWeb photos via Wikimedia Commons, a NASA Worldview permalink, community-sharing posts), 9 GIS/data items (fire perimeter, hotspots, weather, terrain, land cover, evacuation records), with five sources shared across both forage lanes and merged, and 5 operational map-product items (the NIFC ftp.wildfire.gov daily incident maps — IAP, briefing, base camp, ICP, and operations PDFs for the July 5-9 operational periods — added 2026-07-24; provenance in forage-manifest-2026-07-24-maps.json). POLICY: link-never-copy — every asset href points at the original publicly published source; the single permitted exception is a mirror of the RLS PDF, a US public domain federal interagency work product, stored alongside this collection at rls/chelan-hills-fire-entrapment-and-escape-rls.pdf and not listed as an asset until this folder is synced to the served host (see anomalies.json). Rights are per-source and recorded verbatim in each item's forage:rights. Geometry is APPROXIMATE: every item carries an estimated envelope bbox and centroid derived from the InciWeb incident point and the WFIGS perimeter extent, not surveyed perimeter values; per-item forage:geolocation records the foraged locus hint.",
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