Yes. Our FD has been doing some structure protection work in the path of the fire. 

There were some structures lost on ranches north of Parkman earlier last week - on the X-X and Twin Creek ranches. The fire moved too quickly to allow resources to get in front of the head of the fire.

One of the fastest ways we protect structures in this area is to run a road grader around structures to create a fire break very quickly, and then if the winds allow it, fire off the fuel on the outside of the donut.  Sheridan County's road grader operators are some of the best operators I've seen, and they've carved fire lines out in the sagebrush and grasslands far from a paved road, and they carve a line faster than a dozer can. What they can't handle is really rough, uneven ground.

The scariest day was this past Saturday before dawn; the fire moved south along the face of the mountains from US-14 to Beckton in about three hours. Fortunately, it has been held at Big Goose Creek's north side. Fortunately since then, the winds have died down and the USFS crews have gotten a break to allow them to clean up fire boundaries and get some cold black on the edges.

Today, the air boss had several SEATs flying over hot spots, and VLAT's (one of which was from NorCal) come in to drop slurry on the larger burning areas on top of the mountain.