[AG-TECH] Montana Fires on AG

[Don Morton]

Your email bounces on me, Cindy.....

"Recipient address rejected:  Address locked or deactivated..."  ?? :)



Yeh, it ain't a pretty picture.  This link for the Northern Rockies Incident
Information will give more localized info:

http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/fire/2003fires/index.shtml

That Beaver Lake area is some wonderful, remote country I love
to fart around in, but obviously not for a while now.

Evacuations are hard to keep up with - mostly "notices"
rather than actual, and of course it's very dynamic.  Dry
T-storms expected tonight (same thing that started the 55
or so fires last weekend), maybe a little moisture Saturday,
then back to hot/dry.  Visibility down to about 1 mile,
air quality "very unhealthy."

Sorry for the boring pictures on the Lobby now - just can't see
very far!!

Thanks for thinking of us.  We're not "the East" so of course,
we don't get the attention that ice-cream-melting power outages
get :)




Cindy Sievers wrote:

> Hi Don,
>
> I monitor the National Incident Command web site for fires (just to 
> keep track of that son of mine), and you are certainly surrounded by 
> fire.....not a good situation up there at all.
> Have they made evacuation plans for your area yet?  Sounds like there 
> are several communities that are either in the process of evacuating 
> or have already......structure protection is in place for lots of 
> homes...
>
> My son is on the Kings River Hot Shots - last I heard, they were 
> assigned to the Beaver Lake complex, about 17 miles southwest of 
> Missoula.  If you see their rig parked at some bar, go in and tell 'em 
> to get back to work.  Mom says.
>
> Pray for rain!!!!!
>
> Take care,
> Cindy
>
>
> At 02:56 PM 8/11/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>
>> Well, there just ain't much visibility remaining to zoom through!
>> We're surrounded, so any way the wind blows will bring it all
>> in.  Kind of a situation out of control, so folks like your son
>> are well appreciated for doing what they can.
>>
>> Cindy Sievers wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Don, could you zoom in just a little and see if I can see my son 
>>> up there???  He's on a Hot Shot crew.....:):):)
>>>
>>>
>>> At 01:43 PM 8/10/2003 -0600, Don Morton wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anyone who wants to see a bit of the Montana fire
>>>> situation  - got my office camera in the AG Lobby.
>>>> 55 new fires in the Missoula area alone due to Friday
>>>> evening T-storm.  They're popping up left and right.
>>>> Went flying this morning over the area and was amazed
>>>> at all the small, growing fires.
>>>>
>>>> Chances are the visual will head south in the next day
>>>> or two as the area continues to fill with smoke, but
>>>> for now, I've just got the camera pointed to two of
>>>> the fires up in the Rattlesnake Mountains, about 8
>>>> miles north.
>>>> -- 
>>>>
>>>> **************************************************************
>>>>    Don Morton                   http://MRoCCS.cs.umt.edu/~morton/
>>>>    Department of Computer Science       The University of Montana
>>>>    Missoula, MT 59812 | Voice (406) 243-4975 | Fax (406) 243-5139
>>>>
>>>> My all-time favourite bumper sticker:
>>>>     REUNITE GONDWANALAND!!!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ============================================
>>> Cindy Sievers           Los Alamos National Laboratory
>>> sievers at lanl.gov        Group CCS-1 MS B287
>>> tel:505.665.6602        Advanced Computing
>>> fax:505.665.4939        Los Alamos, NM 87544
>>> ============================================
>>
>>
>> -- 
>>   Don Morton                   http://MRoCCS.cs.umt.edu/~morton/
>>   Department of Computer Science       The University of Montana
>>   Missoula, MT 59812 | Voice (406) 243-4975 | Fax (406) 243-5139
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> ============================================
> Cindy Sievers           Los Alamos National Laboratory
> sievers at lanl.gov        Group CCS-1 MS B287
> tel:505.665.6602        Advanced Computing
> fax:505.665.4939        Los Alamos, NM 87544
> ============================================
>

-- 
   Don Morton                   http://MRoCCS.cs.umt.edu/~morton/
   Department of Computer Science       The University of Montana
   Missoula, MT 59812 | Voice (406) 243-4975 | Fax (406) 243-5139