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Haines Index Map - Higher Haines means fire growth tends to be stronger: Fuel Dryness:  Tells you how likely things are to burn if a fire gets started: INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT TUESDAY, JULY 18, 2006 – 0530 MDT NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS LEVEL 3 CURRENT SITUATION: Initial attack activity was heavy nationally with 342 new fires reported.  Fifteen new large fires (*) were reported, three each in the Northern California and Southwest Areas, and Eastern Great Basin Areas, two each in the Northern Rockies and Southern California Areas, and one each in the Western Great Basin and Rocky Mountain Areas. ...

Haines Index Map - Higher Haines means fire growth tends to be stronger: Fuel Dryness:  Tells you how likely things are to burn if a fire gets started: INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT SUNDAY, JULY 16, 2006 – 0800 MDT NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS LEVEL 3 CURRENT SITUATION: Initial attack activity was light nationally with 142 new fires reported.  Eight new large fires (*) were reported, two in the Eastern Great Basin Area, two in the Northern Rockies, and one each in the Southern California, Western Great Basin, Eastern and Rocky Mountain Areas.  Five large fires were contained, two in the Eastern...