Overview

• Containment remains at zero percent after roughly 80 acres burned.
• Air tankers, helicopters and ground crews are engaged under a unified command structure.
• Firefighters reported by 3 p.m. that they had slowed the blaze’s moderate rate of spread.
• The fire’s setting in open vegetation along Lake Herman Road has limited threats to built-up areas.
• Investigators are still working to determine what sparked the Herman Fire.