Gordon Butte Fire contained
Published 5:00 am Thursday, June 6, 2013
Firefighters early Wednesday morning declared the 3,300-acre Gordon Butte Fire contained.
The grassfire along both sides of the Lower Deschutes River between four and 10 miles south of the Columbia River hasn’t grown since Monday, according to the Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center in Prineville. Firefighters called it contained at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday.
A tipped-over, single burner camp stove started the blaze on land overseen by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, fire officials announced Tuesday. The fire also spread onto land overseen by the state and private owners.
While a BLM ban on campfires and barbecues along the Lower Deschutes started Saturday, gas and propane stoves are allowed. The fire started Saturday along the river.
— From staff reports