Tuesday, August 19, 2008


July 2. Rich Fire. We continued the burnout today. Due to much thicker fuels the burn started getting hot. Small dime size spots started showing up in the green side of the burn. Around noon a burning snag tree fell over the line narrowly missing 5 gallans of burn fuel (a mix of gas and diesel). As soon as it fell the green side exploded in fire. After the fire set down we went in and caught the slop over at about a 1/4 acre. Almost as soon as we finished another small slop over started. Which we caught quickly. At this time the burn has been passed to the next crew. As soon as I thought things would calm down and I could catch my breath a column of smoke from the other side of the burn set down over our line sending long range embers deep into the green.

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