While the Robinson Fire burning about 20 miles southwest of Buffalo has seen diminished activity, firefighters are not able to expand the containment perimeter past 64%.
“The northern edge of the fire perimeter is holding along the edge of a cliff band and the bottom of Robinson Canyon,” fire managers said in a Thursday update. “These are natural features that impede the fire’s advance, and areas that are unsafe for firefighters to be on the ground. As a result, it has been determined that the 64% of the fire perimeter that has been contained is the full extent of achievable containment.”
Firefighters on Wednesday and Thursday were focusing on patrolling for heat along areas of the containment perimeter: “They are looking for and extinguishing any sources of heat within one chain (a unit of measure equal to 66 feet) toward the fire’s interior,” according to Robinson Fire Information.