Ruth Ann Bramich’s husband Mike woke her at 11 p.m. Sunday as flames from the wildfire were getting too close for comfort to their Silk Street home.

They called 9-1-1 and started to hose down the house and the yard where ashes were flying from the more than 460-acre fire which started Saturday afternoon.

“The flames were coming down the mountain,” Bramich said. “I got all the important stuff on the table ready to go.”

Firefighters quickly came and worked on extinguishing spots. At that point they put out three different fires near the house.

Bramich said the heavy smoke smell in the house woke her this morning.

State fire crews from all over Pennsylvania are coming to the area. Larry Bickel, public information officer for the Packerton incident, came this morning from DuBois.

“Know that we are dedicating more resources,” he said, adding they planned to use drones Monday to assist in the attack.

They spent the morning assessing the situation and planning the attack on the fire, which is similar to the one that burned 577 acres in Lehigh Gap in November.

The fire started about 3 p.m. Saturday near the D&L trail down from the Perch Restaurant in Packerton, Mahoning Township.

It spread through to Jim Thorpe and the area of Long Run Road in Franklin Township.

On Sunday night, Jake Novitsky, Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources fire forester, said because of the dry conditions and the lack of rain in the forecast, he expects it will take a week to totally extinguish the fire.

Novitsky said no structures have been damaged, but the blaze has crept within 100 yards of houses.

Volunteer firefighters have been on scene since Saturday staging near the Jim Thorpe market, Long Run Road in Franklin Township and the Mauch Chunk fire tower near Penn’s Peak.

The last two days, helicopters from DCNR were dumping buckets of water onto the blaze. The water drops will stop for the night. People will remain on scene cleaning up the lines and protecting structures.

Novitsky said at any time there were 80 to 100 people fighting the blaze.

“All the volunteer firefighters did an excellent job,” Novitsky said.

It’s difficult to contain. “We’re having a lot of trouble with the terrain,” Novitsky said, “The weather is fighting us. It’s pretty dry and hard to contain.”

Flagstaff and Long Run roads were closed for a time Sunday. The roads are open now.

The origin of the fire is under investigation, he said.

On Monday morning, smoky conditions could be seen in downtown Jim Thorpe.

Commissioner Rocky Ahner said just before 10 a.m. Monday that as a result of these conditions, county employees working in offices located in the administration building, 44 and 76 Susquehanna St. buildings, archives, parking and Jim Thorpe magistrate’s office, as well as the courthouse were sent home.