[Grampa Dave]

There is the lates on that evacuation order for Oak Flats:

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Oak Flats area ordered evacuated

By JEFF BARNARD
The Associated Press
8/15/02 11:52 PM

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- About 30 homes were evacuated three miles south of Agness Thursday evening as Biscuit Fire flames came within a mile of the neighborhood of Oak Flats.

"The fire hasn't blown up," said fire spokesman Dick Fleishman. "But it's progressing that way, and the (Curry County) sheriff thought it would be safer to evacuate during the day than at night."

National Guard troops were guarding the roads leading to the communities -- Oak Flats and Spud Road -- to keep residents from re-entering.

The evacuees, more than 60 people, were sent to Riley Creek School in Gold Beach, said Fleishman.

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From a distance ... A NASA Terra satellite image shows the spread of a wildfire at the
Oregon-California state line that has now burned over 375,000 acres. The Biscuit Fire
was sparked by lightning in the Klamath Mountains in Oregon and has burned over the
state line into California. The columns of smoke Blue wisps billowing from the fire reach
far south down the Pacific Coast. Photo:AFP