Posted on 08/03/2002 7:09:17 AM PDT by Grampa Dave
Fires burning on more than 438,000 acres across Oregon
The Associated Press
Major wildfires have burned and are burning on more than 438,000 acres in Oregon on Friday. About 12,000 firefighters are working in the state. The Northwest Interagency Communication Center is tracking at least nine major fires in Oregon. Top priorities for fire officials were the 150,000-acre Florence fire, the 17,000-acre Timbered Rock fire, the 38,000-acre Sour Biscuit Fire, and the 26,850-acre Tiller Complex.
LUCKY FIRE
Started: 7/29/02, 10 p.m. six miles south of Detroit.
Size:87 acres
Containment: 70 percent
Evacuations: None.
Damages: None yet. In heavy timber.
On scene: 168 firefighters.
Cause: Lightning
CACHE MOUNTAIN:
Started: 7/24/02, 15 miles northwest of Sisters, Oregon
Size: 4,200 acres.
Containment: 95 percent.
Evacuations: None at this time.
Damage: Two homes destroyed.
On scene: about 1,179 firefighters.
Cause: Lightning.
TOOLBOX FIRE
Started: in Lake County 07/12/02
Size: 86,794 acres
Containment: 75 percent
Evacuations: None at this time.
Damage: None reported.
On scene: 1,768
Cause: Lightning.
MALHEUR-FLAGTAIL COMPLEX
Started: 8-25 miles from Prairie City, 07/12/02.
Size: 86,794 acres.
Containment: 75 percent.
Evacuations: No evacuation as of August 1.
Damage: None.
On scene: 1,768 firefighters
Cause: Lightning
TILLER COMPLEX
Started: Outside Tiller, east of Canyonville off Interstate 5, 07/12/02.
Size: 26,850 acres.
Containment: 25 percent
Evacuations: South Umpqua Road closed at milepost 6. Fifteen residence threatened. Tribal ceremonial grounds and critical cultural resources are threatened.
Damage: No listed damage.
On scene: 1,051 firefighters
Cause: Lightning.
MONUMENT FIRE
Started: 9 miles southwest of Unity, 07/12/02
Size: 24,378 acres
Containment: 75 percent.
Evacuations: None at this time.
Damage:None.
On Scene: 1,154 firefighters.
Cause: Lightning.
FLORENCE FIRE
Started: 26 miles west of Grant Pass, 07/13/02.
Size: 150,000 acres.
Containment: 5 percent.
Evacuations: The entire Illinois Valley on notice to evacuate.
Damage: 3 residences and 8 outbuildings.
On scene: 1,546 firefighters.
Cause: Lightning.
SOUR BISCUIT FIRE
Started: 17 miles southwest of Cave Junction
Size: 33,287 acres.
Containment: 0 percent containment
Evacuations: None yet.
Damage: no
On scene: 436.
Cause: lightning
TIMBERED ROCK FIRE
Started: Unknown. 20 miles north of Medford.
Size: 16,925 acres
Containment: 20 percent
Evacuations: Elk Creek Road is closed except to fire vehicles. Evacuation area for all addresses along Elk Creek Road, 143 homes, is still in effect. No homes were immediately threatened by yesterday's fire activity and no homes have been lost. August 1.
Damage: None
On Scene: 1,163 firefighters
Cause: lightning
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Source: The Northwest Interagency Coordination Center
Go to this link and click into some of her timely and interesting pictures: (Wanderin's New Photo's of the Fire or al Qaeda Tree Hugger's big burn.)
Here is a great example:
Thanks for sharing your talents with us, Wanderin!
NGO's...gotta love 'em. I've been following these eco-fascist threads for a long time, and my anger keeps rising. You are dead right...it is TIME to declare war on these people. The country was outraged by '9/11', and they should be JUST AS outraged about these fires, IMHO. I haven't seen any figures regarding the collective monentary losses resulting from these horrific fires over the past few years, but I would speculate that it may well exceed that caused by Atta and his cowardly comrades on September 11th. Consider the timber destroyed, the homes lost, the lives displaced...for some reason, these fires have not outraged the American community as much as the terrorist act in NYC and Washington, but that needs to change. These eco-fascists are just as diseased as the members of Hamas and Al'Queda...terrorists all. Most of us have seen the "wanted poster" of the nineteen scumbags involved in the terrorist acts of September 11th...we need to do something similar with the eco-fascists: a "wanted poster" with the names AND photos of those responsible for the policies that have led to the destruction of the American west and southwest by fire. These people need to be exposed...the people whose lives have been disrupted or destroyed by these fires need to have names and photos they can focus on, so they can see the face of the enemy. Who is the head of the Sierra Club? Let's see his face. We know the names of the organizations involved in the eco-fascist movement...let's get the names, pictures, and e-mails of those prominent in these organizations so those who lives have been destroyed may confront them. Civil suits against organizations and individuals? Other ideas? Feedback? Grandpa Dave is right...we are at war with the terrorists responsible for September 11th, and it is HIGH TIME we go to war with the eco-fascists that are burning our country down to the ground right before our very eyes.
I heard this interview, yesterday, and I had to turn off the computer and leave. I was afraid that if I stay, I would really get mad. Then I would have gone and charted a flight to Medford, rent a SUV and went out to find these Clintoonian Pink Panty Wearing Florist Maggots pretending to be fire fighters. Then I would have been in an Oregon jail this morning.
Please go to it and bookmark it: ("I'M ASHAMED OF THIS" Interview with a 'copter Wildfire Fighter. The Lars Larson Show | 8/02/02 | AuntB)
PS It looks like a relatively cool week ahead for those in harm's way. That's better than the alternative.;o)
Do we have any talented people in Freeper Land who can do something like what "who knows what evil" suggests doing here.
These eco-fascists are just as diseased as the members of Hamas and Al'Queda...terrorists all. Most of us have seen the "wanted poster" of the nineteen scumbags involved in the terrorist acts of September 11th...we need to do something similar with the eco-fascists: a "wanted poster" with the names AND photos of those responsible for the policies that have led to the destruction of the American west and southwest by fire. These people need to be exposed!"
Does any one have any pictures of Andy Kerr with his enviral poster boy governor, Kitznslobber? That would be a great wanted posted in Oregon showing these two enviral criminals on a wanted posted for enabling these fires.
As Archie Bunker calls them, the al Qaeda Tree Huggers.
In fact that might be a good line for the poster: Wanted these al Qaeda Tree Huggers for contributing to uncontrollable forest fires in Oregon!
i can't imagine why... after all, the guvermint is here to help.
Now that I'd like to see!
;o)
I'm off now...be back later.
Haven't read the whole thread or many of the others on these fires, so I don't know if you've seen this yet. Have you seen the fire maps and all of the fire information available on the Internet?
First, you can go to the National Interagency Fire Center. They used to have a link on that home page to the fire maps, but now they don't. The fire maps are located at this website. The one I like that gives a lot of information is the active fire maps link in the middle of the page (clicking it brings up another window to select the region you want to see), but the other links have tons of pictures and maps to see where fires are burning. They are updated daily.
Broadband is very desireable as the maps are huge and very detailed. Here's the latest one for the Western states showing the size of the fires in Oregon. It is a huge file that takes a while to load, even with broadband.....
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