Dozens of wildfires ravage the West

ap on San Diego Union - Tribune ^ | 7/9/07 | Joe Kafka - ap

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A fire smolders on Sunday, July 8, 2007, near Hot Springs, S.D. A state official said the blaze is the most intense wildfire ever recorded in the Black Hills. (AP Photo/Joe Kafka)

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Alabaugh Fire Now 11 Square Miles - 07/09/2007 9:42 AM

http://www.keloland.com/NewsDetail6162.cfm?Id=0,58625

Update: Alabaugh Fire now covers over 11 square miles.

Nearly 270 firefighters are waking up to better conditions at the scene of a wildfire near Hot Springs that covers more than seven-and-a-half square miles. It rained overnight and the winds have died down.

The Alabaugh Fire has killed a homeowner who returned to his house, injured two firefighters, destroyed 27 homes and 50 outbuildings, and forced the evacuation of 50 houses. State officials say high winds yesterday made the fire grow and complicated their efforts.

Crews have contained 20 percent of the fire and expect to have it fully contained by Thursday. State Highway 71 remains closed.

Lightning sparked the fire on Saturday evening. About 12,000 lightning strikes were recorded across southeast Wyoming, southwest South Dakota and northwest Nebraska and several of those sparked fires.

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Milford Flats Fire: The blaze breaks Utah’s record and keeps growing past 300,000 acres, freeway closures

Updated: 10:18 AM- KANOSH - The largest wildfire in Utah history grew only bigger this morning, topping 300,000 acres as fresh crews rushed to the blackened high deserts and grasslands of southcentral Utah.

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http://www.sltrib.com/ci_6330065

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Active Fires Map

[caseinpoint]

Thanks for posting this information. Hubby and I are making an overnight run from the California Central Valley to Southeastern Idaho tomorrow evening. Looks like we will be passing six or seven of those blazes. I only hope the interstate doesn’t close. We are to be at a wedding Wednesday morning and we have very little leeway for delays.

[glock rocks]

It’s ugly. The valley air up north here is brown. Ugly.

[Chili Girl]

Nice map! I went to their site, and the campground we were just at (in the Inyo Natl Forest) two weekends ago has been evacuated. What a shame. Glad we were able to get back there before it burned, and very glad our Lord kept his protection around us and stayed those fires until we were safely away from there!

[Old Professer]

At least all the trees are harvestable.

[Old Professer]

Does it make your clothes stink?

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Wildfires burning across Idaho

http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/global/story.asp?s=6765518

Associated Press - July 9, 2007 6:54 PM ET

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Fire crews are working to put out wildfires across the state.

The Warm Springs fire in the Payette National Forest has grown to 28,000 acres, officials with the National Interagency Coordination Center reported today. That’s 13,000 acres more than yesterday. There are 92 firefighters working on the blaze, and fire managers hope to have it completely contained by Thursday.

In the Sawtooth National Forest, the Black Pine Two fire is burning on nearly 45,000 acres of grass and brush about eleven miles southeast of Malta. Fire officials say that blaze is threatening some structures in the area, and it was spreading rapidly this morning.

Firefighters have the 45,000 acre Red Bridge grass fire on Bureau of Land Management property near Shoshone nearly contained. Containing that fire has cost an estimated $300,000 so far.

[glock rocks]

Can’t tell, but it makes my eyes water and my asthmatic kid cough.

[glock rocks]

Dang, that's such a beautiful area. We should tie environmentalists to the trees in the Sawtooth range... and the rest of em just west of Ferron Utah, where the envirals shut down dead tree logging (and put a log home company out of business).

[NormsRevenge]

check out some of the stuff at Western Hemisphere (Americas) Half-Hourly Fire Update (GOES Satellite)

[Brad’s Gramma]

This is so disgusting....most of it unnecessary. I’m giving lightening a little leeway...that’s it.

I agree, glock. Tie them to the trees.

[Grampa Dave]

Save a few of these eco terrorists to be tied to dead trees in California and Oregon.

[Grampa Dave]

We had planned to drive to Montana and the Yellowstone Area this week and stay in that area about a week.

Then drive back through Idaho and Oregon.

My wife is recovering from a back injury, and we decided that trip might not be best this year. So we have a different area to visit.

[SierraWasp]

The WaspWoman and I are thinkin about drivin up the Frazer River Canyon in BC to Alaska and around that loop till we catch a ferry offa the Keni Peninsula back through the "Inside Passage" to Vancover, BC... Probably toward the end of the season before it starts gettin rainy and cold.

When would you estimate the latest we should do that Alaska loop based on typical weather conditions? I'm thinking no later than late September for Fairbanks... Can't remember if Alaska gets "Indian Summer." But then it's probably called "Eskimo Summer" up there, right???

[SierraWasp]

"A state official said the blaze is the most intense wildfire ever recorded in the Black Hills."

How can that be? Little Tommy Dasshole relieved the GovernMental EnvironMental restrictions in SD without ANY screaming by NRDC, et al... and supposedly allowed thinning and cleaning in the Black Hills, which are truly black, now!!!

[Grampa Dave]

You need to ask some of the Canadian Freepers that question.