Update on Toonerville Fire for July 13, 2025:
Evacuation Levels and Road Closures: All areas surrounding the fire are now at Level 1 (Be Ready) Evacuations: Toonerville Road Communities, NE Blacksmith Drive, NE Smith Forge Ln, NE Pond Ct, NE Forge Ct, NE Lakeway Dr and NE Lakeway Drive S.
Level 1 – READY: Prepare a go kit for you, family, animals. Clear areas around your
home in advance. Know your escape routes.
Level 2 – SET: Have your go kit on hand and ready. Ensure you, your family, and
animals and ready to go at a moment’s notice.
Level 3 – GO: Grab your go kit. Load your family and animals and leave.
Saturday, crews made great progress mopping up the fire edge. They worked to clear brush and debris away to strengthen the fire lines. Command of the fire was transitioned to a Type 3 Incident Commander and an Incident Commander trainee, and they will continue to oversee management of the team.
Today (Sunday), crews will continue work securing the perimeter of the fire. They will continue to extinguish any hotspots or flareups within the fire perimeter. Use of UAS Drones will continue to help identify and pinpoint hotspots as well as provide mapping data showing hotspot locations and directing mop-up needs. Handheld Infrared (IR) is being used on the fire perimeter to double and triple check critical mop-up areas ensuring all hotspots are completely out. Heavy equipment is being used to turn over dozer berms and allow fire crews to spray and extinguish heat inside the berms created during dozer line construction at initial fire attack. Hand crews and engines continue to cold trail around the fire perimeter. They will work into the fires burned area, at least 50 feet into the black from the fire edge. Crews are working around the outer fire perimeter in the green looking for any hidden or undetected hotspots to ensure there is no fire escape outside the primary control lines. Night patrol will continue monitoring the fire overnight watching for any flareups and providing security for fire equipment working on the fire. The team is continuing to evaluate the emergency evacuation levels as well as monitoring fire activity in and around all structures.
Weather and Fire Behavior: Today we should see sunny weather with highs near 88. Calm winds becoming east-northeast around 5-7 mph in the afternoon. The evening may be partly cloudy with a low around 58 and east-northeast wind around 5-7 mph. Monday will bring highs around 78 with calm east southeast winds 5-7 mph with evening temperatures around 57.
Smoke: Air quality remains good with potential for minor smoke impacts in the immediate area of the Toonerville Fire. For more information on smoke and air quality, please visit Washington Smoke Information (https://wasmoke.blogspot.com/).
Air Space Restrictions: There is a Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) in place over the fire. Any unaccounted-for aircraft, including drones, puts aerial firefighting resources and lives at risk. If you fly, we can’t. All firefighting aircraft have to be grounded if unmanned aircraft or drones are operating near the fire.
