The Goodell Fire in North Cascades National Park (NOCA) has expanded and now totals 5,573 acres, burning on both sides of State Highway 20 and the Skagit River near the town of Newhalem, the NOCA Visitor Center and Newhalem campground. The fire also continued to slowly move eastward up Newhalem Gorge along both sides of Gorge Lake in the direction of Diablo and the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center.

Firefighters are implementing structure protection in Diablo and the Environmental Learning Center. The Learning Center is a hive of activity today with fire crews on site, including three engines from Darrington, Index and Concrete. Crews have begun installing water pumps in Diablo Lake and hoses and sprinklers throughout campus and surveying the campus in consultation with NOCA for vegetation removal to create defensible space.