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Fire spokesperson Melanie Banton says special measures have been taken to keep the flames from harming those buildings.

Firefighters have spared every structure in Stehekin from the advancing Pioneer Fire, sometimes by a matter of a few feet.  Not a single structure has been damaged according to California Incident Management Team 15 which led a Media tour into the area on Saturday. ...

The community gets electricity off a micro-grid which is powered by a small hydro power plant with three generators.

The fire is perilously close to structures in Stehekin after edging closer by the day as it continues to spread northward along Lake Chelan.

Fire information spokesperson Anneta Pritchard says the fire jumped a couple of creeks over the weekend and is on a slope above the town.

The containment level of the Pioneer Fire on the northern shores of Lake Chelan has dropped over the past 24 hours. The fire, which was officially sparked by "undetermined" causes on June 8, had been listed as 14-15% contained for much of July but has been lowered to 12% as of this morning (Thursday, August 1)...

The Pioneer Fire is still looming only about a mile-and-a-half to the southeast of Stehekin on the northern shores of Lake Chelan. Fire activity has remained minimal heading into the week's interior thanks to a continuing run of milder weather, and fire information spokesperson, Lauren Durocher, says crews have been hitting the fire hard at its closest points to the small community...

Monday (July 29) was a relatively inactive day for the Pioneer Fire on the northern shores of Lake Chelan, but the town of Stehekin remains directly in its crosshairs. The blaze, which began on June 8 from undetermined causes, remains only about a mile-and-a-half from the small community of 95 residents, all of whom are under a Level 3 evacuation notice...

Chelan County Commissioner Tiffany Gering says she's fearful about residents refusing to leave.

Since being founded by Western settlers in 1888, the small town of Stehekin has never faced a threat like the one which is currently looming just over one of the nearest ridges from its location on the northern shores of Lake Chelan. After igniting from undetermined causes 51 days ago on June 8, about ten miles to the southeast, the Pioneer Fire has now crept to within less than 8,000 feet (roughl