Salvation and Cake Crumb please post what you have re the latest data on these fires. Thank you!
Posted on 07/28/2002 10:14:13 AM PDT by Grampa Dave
Fires burning on more than 260,000 acres across Oregon
The Associated Press 7/28/02 1:04 AM
Major wildfires were burning on 264,000 acres in Oregon on Saturday. About 10,495 firefighters are working in the state. The Northwest Interagency Communication Center is tracking at least 14 major fires in Oregon. Top priorities for fire officials were the 9,000-acre Sheldon Ridge fire near The Dalles and the 2,261-acre Skunk Fire in Klamath County.
WHITE RIVER
Started: 7/23/02, one mile east of Maupin
Size: 20,000 acres
Containment: 30 percent.
Evacuations: mandatory evacuation of White River campground 7/24/02; Bake Oven Road and Buckhollow Road reopened, 7/27/02. Lower Deschutes River close from Shears Falls to Macks Canyon. 7/27/02.
Damage: Unknown.
On scene: 48 people
Cause: Lightning strikes
Threatened: 100 homes, 50 business, 200 outbuildings
SKUNK FIRE:
Started: 7/24/2002, Klamath County, north of Sprague River.
Size: 2,261 acres
Evacuations: Moccasin Hill and Klamath Forest Estates subdivisions
Damage: 50 homes, 5 business, 30 outbuildings threatened, one outbuilding destroyed.
Containment: 30 percent containment.
On scene: 360 people.
Cause: Lightning strikes.
SWAMP CREEK
Started 7/24/02, 4 miles northwest of Diamond.
Size: 320 acres.
Containment: 100 percent.
Evacuations: Threatened resources include Diamond Craters Research Natural Area, scattered outbuildings, ranches and livestock.
Damage: Unknown so far.
On scene: 48 people.
Cause: Lightning strikes.
CACHE MOUNTAIN:
Started: 7/24/02, 15 miles northwest of Sisters, Oregon
Size: 1200 acres.
Containment: 0 percent.
Evacuations: Camp Tamarack, mandatory evacuation. 7/25/02.
Damage: Fire has spread to Weyerhaeuser land. 7/25/02.
On scene: 62 firefighters.
Cause: Lightning.
SHELDON RIDGE:
Started: 7/24/02, 3 miles southwest of The Dalles.
Size: 9,000 acres
Containment: 30 percent
Evacuations: Voluntary evacuation of at least 250 homes.
Damage: Two outbuildings destroyed, one home damaged.
On scene: 800 firefigters, 125 Oregon National Guard troops.
Cause: Lightning.
WINTER-TOOLBOX FIRES
Started: in Lake County 07/12/02 and merged 7/20/02.
Size: 115,319 (both fires combined)
Containment: 55 percent (Toolbox); 55 percent (Winter)
Evacuations: Voluntary evacuations of 85 homes.
Damage: None reported.
On scene: 2,411 (both fires combined)
Cause: Lightning.
EYERLY COMPLEX
Started: 15 miles NE of Camp Sherman, 07/09/02.
Size: 23,573 acres.
Containment: 100 percent.
Evacuations: 280 homes asked to voluntarily evacuate last week.
Damage: 18 houses destroyed.
On scene: 949 firefighters.
Cause: Lightning.
MALHEUR COMPLEX
Started: 8-25 miles from Prairie City, 07/12/02.
Size: 15,500 acres.
Containment: 20 percent.
Evacuations: No mandatory evacuation, but 52 residences and 13 commercial properties and 196 outbuildings are threatened. A historic home, Austin House, is 4 miles from the fire.
Damage: None.
On scene: 1,088 firefighters
Cause: Lightning
TILLER COMPLEX
Started: Outside Tiller, east of Canyonville off Interstate 5, 07/12/02.
Size: 9,800 acres.
Containment: 18 percent
Evacuations: South Umpqua Road closed at milepost 6. Five homes in Ash Valley threatened. Tribal ceremonial grounds and critical cultural resources are threatened.
Damage: No listed damage.
On scene: 1,011 firefighters
Cause: Lightning.
NORTH UMPQUA COMPLEX
Started: 25 miles east of Glide, 07/12/02.
Size: 1,120 acres.
Containment: 35 percent.
Evacuations: 20 residences threatened, one business and 10 outbuildings. Historical resources, cultural sites threatened.
Damage: None.
On Scene: 561 firefighters.
Cause: Lightning.
MONUMENT FIRE
Started: 9 miles southwest of Unity, 07/12/02
Size: 24,400 acres
Containment: 60 percent.
Evacuations: 75 residences threatened, plus five commercial buildings and ten outbuildings.
Damage: Major power outages 7/25/02. Severe damage to computers and data management at fire camp.
On Scene: 1,495 firefighters, military battalion from Topeka, Kansas in place.
Cause: Lightning.
747/MURRAY COMPLEX
Started: Northeast of Paulina in Black Canyon Wilderness, 07/13/22.
Size: 11,739 acres
Containment: 50 percent.
Evacuations: No evacuations; Four homes and eight outbuildings threatened.
Damage: Road closures.
On scene: 906 firefighters.
Cause: Lightning.
BISCUIT-FLORENCE-SOUR BISCUIT COMPLEX
Started: 17 miles southwest of Cave Junction, 07/13/02.
Size: 15,930 acres
Containment: zero percent.
Evacuations: Threatened resources are 13 private residences, 36 outbuildings of Oak Flats. Fire jumped the Illinois River 7/25/02. Cloud cover on 7/26/02 prevented airborne attacks.
Damage: Five outbuildings destroyed.
On scene: 737 firefighters.
Cause: Lightning.
TIMBERED ROCK FIRE
Started: Unknown. 20 miles north of Medford.
Size: 4,100 acres
Containment: 10 percent
Evacuations: None
Damage: None
On Scene: 433 firefighters
Cause: lightning
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Source: The Northwest Interagency Coordination Center
Salvation and Cake Crumb please post what you have re the latest data on these fires. Thank you!
Yuck.
Should have been:
Makes one wonder if proposed bans on prescribed fire (on the grounds of "clean air") are intended to produce sufficient fuels to burn out the homeowners.
Mea crappola.
New fires in Kali land too.
This is not a merely whimsical observation. Backyard burning and prescribed fire are proposed to be banned upon precisely such grounds in Sierra Nevada counties that are already in attainment for air quality.
This terrible observation has been the back of my mind since the Los Alamos fires two + years ago.
Recently a freeper, (I can't remember whom), posted about the fires in Colorado and Arizona that the bans of backyard, prescribed burns, and of course your favorites the no road, no harvest/thinning of trees including dead trees, and no brush removal was pre planned by the elite enviral fascists.
So, when these fires started and raged out of control with no bull dozer containment, just limited man power and air drops, that home owners around these areas often got/get burned out. Just another form of rural cleansing by the elite Eco Terrorists who don't want humans outside of the Goron voting inner cities.
The negative impact on property value of the surviving homes and with those who lost homes, will last for years as a slow continual rural cleansing after the fires. When, the rains come this fall/winter/spring, those areas on hill sides will become very muddy and miserable to live in. Some homes could slide down in mud slides.
Eventually, most insurance companies may not write normal homeowners policies for those who live around a forest or in so called wild lands. Any wild fire insurance will be as expensive or more expensive than our earthquake insurance in Kali. That will be another rural cleansing force long after these fires are just bad memories.
SARCASM ALERT!!!!
Or maybe he was addressing the Sierra Clubbers et.al., who are responsible for turning small managable fires into big uncontrollable ones.
But the greens say Sequoia forests needs to be toasted on occasion, it opens up the seed pods you see. There’s just no other way to get the seeds that will save us. We’ll just have to accept the huge amounts of CO2 production since the goddess Gaia produces it.
Why do sane men tolerate these fundamentalist fruits and nuts?
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