Arizona fires threaten to join forces;could spawn a gargantuan inferno approaching 300,000 acres)

CNN ^ | 6-21-02

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With no rain in site, firefighters at Arizona's Rodeo fire are concerned that the Chediski fire is just eight miles away.

SHOW LOW, Arizona (CNN) -- Winds of 40 mph threatened to push two wildland fires together Friday in east central Arizona.

[hope]

Pray

[Reeses]

This is part of the Clinton/Gore legacy of not building roads or allowing public access to the forests. The greenie's are obsessesed with boosting tree growth but neglect to consider what happens when dense carbon sinks catch fire. The result: more greenhouse gasses dumped into the atmosphere in a short amount of time than all human sources combined. What we need are motorcycle trails, roads, even highways to act as fire breaks through these New World Order dense growth forests.

[SGCOS]

Geez, these fires are SO depressing. &^(

How do you fight 300,000 acre fire?

Who decides if resources are pulled out of Colorado and into Arizona?

[Atsilvquodi]

http://www.cidi.org/wildfire/f ire.htm

[hope]

Your right.

[hope]

"How do you fight 300,000 acre fire?

There's not gonna be much you can physically do with this monster, especially if the windy conditions persist. It's gonna take some serious prayer for rain. So many, many of the tribesmen are gonna feel the pain, for the forest is their livelihood

[KirklandJunction]

You may be right about a lot of that, but not about this fire.

Go back to Teddy Roosevelt for fed abuses.

That area burnt has been home to cattle, miners, loggers, tourists and others for over a hundred years. The roads and trails have been there as long.

Five year drought, arson, 45 mph wind put this monster together.

Ya' wanna' assign blame, get 'em all.

Including arsonists that don't do serious time. Like the fed pukes in New Mexico a while back. Like Barton of Colorado being out on bail now.

[Res Nullius]

You know, we are all concerned about terrorist acts, i.e., bombs, bio-chem, etc. Consider the possibilities of a couple of terrorists and a few boxes of matches in the national forests........

[KirklandJunction]

Those that believe in the power of prayor, please turn it on.

Latest word from the smokies is fear the two fires will merge.

I'm about 140 miles s.w., and those big white puffy cathedrals in the sky we can see from here aren't clouds of moisture but of smoke!

Those four dozen smokies from Puerto Rico were stationed right in what is now the middle we believe.

With the wind still strong and gusting, the inferno might just keep going north until the terrain slopes down, out of pine forest down to juniper and pinion. When it gets to a lower altitude of brush and wildgrass, it'll slow down.

A business partner of mine moved about 150 beeves into north of there last month. We wonder if we'll ever see any of them again. We know about a dozen horses were grazing near a certain canyon that had water. Canyon all burnt, all canyons around it burnt, sky smokies don't see anything moving.

Que sera, sera.

[Geezerette]

Do you know how they name those fires ... Rodeo, Chediski. In the 1970's there was a very bad one in Arizona called the Dude fire. They still refer to that one when comparing it to these new ones.

g in Phoenix, AZ

[archy]

Pray

I concur.

[lakey]

Unless there has been more than one "Dude" fire, the one I'm thinking of was in 1990. Destroyed Zane Grey's cabin.

[rwfromkansas]

How can this turn into 300,000 acres by combining? Both fires combined are only 2,500 acres more powerful. There is some fuzzy math going on.

[rwfromkansas]

If they combine, it won't even reach 90,000 acres, much less 300,000!!!!! Stop the scare tactics, media.

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/703894/posts

National Fire News

www.nifc.gov | June 21, 2002 | N/A

 

[bushfamfan]

That is exactly what I've been thinking with this coverage. And these fires were started by people too. Terrorists anyone? But, then again, this country has enough sickos who are citizens that it is depressing.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Two different flavors of fire, you see. Each will re-burn the territory of the other.

[HiTech RedNeck]

PS no coded message here! Just joking. So the fires burn together and... yeah, then what?

[Geezerette]

You're right!! It wasn't the 1970's that the Dude fire was going on. Thanks for reminding me about Zane Grey's cabin.

Just heard Charles Goyette on KFYI explain the names ... said the "Rodeo" fire started near the rodeo grounds. Said there was a fire they called the "Cheddar Cheese" fire, but he said that was probably the name the locals just called it.

g

[TBall]

What the heck does color:#666666 mean? Calling ThinkinGal.