Drift Smoke Fades Sky Across Big Bear Valley; Fire Lying Down
Breaking News
By RIMOFTHEWORLD.net
Friday, July 14, 2006
Smoke drifted across eastern Big Bear Valley this morning from the Sawtooth Fire. Aside from the drift smoke, however, very little fire activity can be observed from the Onyx Summit area. The areas where torching occurred Thursday night show only a few columns of white smoke. The winds are generally calm. Forest Service crews from Mill Creek pulled into the small community and are working with Big Bear fire crews to shore up the "contingency line" from Onyx Peak to the Arrastre Fire burn area. Additionally, crews are continuing to work in Burns Canyon to the east.
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Texas fire
Moore Station, Texas -- High winds helped spread a wildfire that destroyed a home and two barns as it consumed more than 100 acres in Henderson County.
The fire destroyed a mobile home and threatened a church, a civic center and chlorine tanks at the water treatment plant in Moore Station, just west of Lake Palestine. That forced several evacuations in the rural East Texas county.
Texas Forest Service firefighters worked alongside local fire departments to cut fire lines, and two helicopters dropped water onto the blaze about 20 miles southwest of Tyler.
Westside Fire Captain Chris Moore says that the fire is partially contained, but firefighters would work through the night to battle flare-ups.
Moore says that he doesn't know what sparked the fire.
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