Category: fires
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Good News Or Not
I see in the paper that a <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/15/news/state/25-easternmt.txt">Type 2 Management team</a> is coming in to take over the Eastern Montana fires. The actual quote is;<br />n<br />n<blockquote>A Type 2 management team from California is arriving to fight more than 20 fires in Custer, Powder River and Rosebud counties. Management of the fires will be…
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Smoke
<a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/Aug2007/US_AMO_2007225_lrg.jpg'><!– s9ymdb:109 –><img width='540' height='334' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/smoke08132007.jpg" alt="" /></a><br />n<br />nHere is why it has been so smokey lately in Montana. We keep talking about the fires in Montana but it looks like the ones in Idaho are really big and nasty.<br />n<br />n<strong>I make it a rule…
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Fire Information
There is a slew of wildfires in Montana and here is a roundup of stories about them.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/14/news/state/20-fires_z.txt" >Church camps evacuated due to fire threat</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/14/news/state/22-fires_z.txt" >Buildings lost in eastern fires</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/14/news/state/24-fires_z.txt" >Fire officials fear wind shift south of Big Timber, Livingston</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/14/news/state/30-fires_z.txt" >Wildfires dump ash, smoke…
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Lucky or Good?
A little fire news for the state.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/13/news/state/20-fires.txt" >Fires scorch Montana, Yellowstone areas</a><br />n<br />nReading this I am of course more drawn to my area and how the fires that started Friday night by the same storm as our fire are doing.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Meanwhile, the largest fire in the area was considered 100…
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Haze
<center><!– s9ymdb:108 –><img width='540' height='540' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/smoke2007210.jpg" alt="" /></center><br />n<br />nIt has been real hazy and smoky around here for the last few days. That is thanks to the fires in Western Montana. This picture shows the smoke cloud all over the state. I am always amazed when I see…
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Worry
As hot and dry as it is getting around here <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WILDFIRES?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">this</a> is a real concern for me. Over 50 square miles burned. With the amount of grass around here we could see the same thing if one gets started. Just one more thing to worry about I guess. Temperatures are supposed to be in…