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23.08.2006
Fire in the hills


Harry Martin <>
writes:


Not that anyone is flying the site these days, but the mountain
has been on fire since Saturday. I'm 3 miles from the flames at the moment. When
the wind shifts, we choke on the smoke.





It's the start of the Casper Mountain (range, I guess), the western most part of
the ridge. If you look at a map of Casper, I'm at the intersection of 487 and
220. This ridge is adjacent to the N. Platte River and runs east into downtown
Casper. I'm about 20 miles from downtown Casper. Anyhow, there are forced
evacuations in effect and they keep opening/shutting down the 220. I may or may
not be able to get to work tomorrow as things are heating up along the highway.


The sky is full of aircraft dropping water and fire retardant stuff on the fire.


Whiskey Peak is about 90 minutes to the west of me where the real HG action is.


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Wildfires.html


The last evacuation orders have been lifted for hundreds of residents and
firefighters were being sent home Monday after reaching 85 percent containment
of a wildfire south of Casper.


The fire had covered more than 11,700 acres, or about 18 square miles, since
lightning started it Aug. 14.


Hundreds of homes were evacuated last week on Casper Mountain, in central
Wyoming about 5 miles south of Casper. Seven cabins, a barn and two outbuildings
were burned, officials said.



http://OzReport.com/10.171.1
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