Less than 24 hours after crews assigned to the Lower Sugarloaf Fire in Chelan County announced they had finally achieved some level of containment over the blaze, emergency officials have elevated evacuation notices for some locations surrounding the blaze and also issued new ones.

The fire, which was sparked by a lightning strike on Aug. 31 and is centered 12 miles east of Leavenworth on the Wenatchee River Ranger District in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, is now listed at 18,360 acres and remains at 11% containment.

On Tuesday, the Chelan County Sheriff's Office issued a Level 2 "Be Ready" evacuation notice for the area above Merry Canyon "on Chumstick north to Fish Pond Lane," including all of Little Chumstick, as well as in the Entiat River Valley "downriver to Dinkleman Can

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