Re: OT Another 14 days on the Fire!


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Posted by Willy-N on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 at 11:51AM :

In Reply to: Re: OT Another 14 days on the Fire! posted by Paul (in NY) on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 at 11:18AM :

We have a lot of Beatle Kill in this area so the trees have a mixture of dead and green in them. The ladder fuels pyle up below them and dry out. So when a strike of lightning hits it torches the dead ones and ignights the green ones at the same time. This fire is ripping when it hits dead spots and the plumes are miles high. We are tring to stop it by back burning twords it and burning up to 8,000 acres at a time. Some times it gets out of control and comsumes tons of green trees in the process! Some times the collum colaspes and the winds blow twords us and that is when we have to leave fast. I am doing as lot of side spraying of water into the trees along the side of the roads when they are burning the other side out. I drive right in the middle of the fires so it gets to 130 degs in the cab some times since I am only 10 ft+ from the flames. The smoke gets so thick you have to stop cause you can't see thru the windsheild and that can make your hair stand on edge for a while! Mark H.



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