Initially published June 28, 2012
There are some big wildfires raging right now which are reported to be
human caused or started in areas that were not pure forest elements.
These days, you are probably not going to find someone outright overtly committing an act of arson.
Also and important, the concept of
fires merging, or the
'whoosh' effect of several fires coming together as one big fire alluded to in the previous post, see "
military property in jeopardy...",
is REAL; as one of the excerpts below shows as has already happened.
Here are quotes from within this week from Fairbanks [Alaska] Daily News
at newsminer.com cut/copied/pasted from with font color changes added
for easy readability:
"Seventeen [17] new fires were reported Sunday, 13 of as a result of lightning strikes that
occurred Saturday and one of the fires, the 9,000-acre Bear Creek Fire, was
burning only a few miles west of the Parks Highway between Nenana and
Healy.
More than 100 firefighters were battling the blaze, which started
as three different fires on Saturday but merged into one on Sunday, public
information officer Jim Schwarber with the state Division of Forestry
said.
The fire is burning west of the Parks Highway near 269 Mile and was
being driven north by wind. The fire was volatile enough that fire officials
encouraged residents in a small subdivision not far off the road to voluntarily
evacuate Sunday, Schwarber said.
[...]Two
of the three fires that merged were caused by lightning while the biggest was
human caused. The fire had grown by about 7,500 acres since Saturday
morning.
[...]North
of Fairbanks, meanwhile, more than 200 firefighters continued to battle a
2,600-acre near the Koyukuk River village of Allakaket that escaped from the
village dump on Wednesday and spread quickly before firefighters could
respond.
[June 24, 2012 <http://www.newsminer.com/view/full_story/19093034/article-Lightning-starts-wildfires-near-Nenana?>]
'The
fire, which started Wednesday in the town dump and quickly spread to surrounding
wildlands, was still moving northeast away from the Bush village of
approximately 100 people on the south bank of the Koyukuk River, 190 miles
northwest of Fairbanks.
At its closest point,
the fire came within a half
mile of homes at the village’s new town site, but east winds kept it from coming
closer. Firefighters, with the help of water-scooping aircraft, were able to
make “significant progress” on the north flank closest to the village on
Thursday, according to an Alaska Fire Service report.
The fire had grown
by about 60 acres since Thursday. It was estimated at 2,558
acres."
[June 23, 2012] Read more:
Fairbanks
Daily News-Miner - Wildfire grows near Allakaket-|||-
original:
http://envirocomputer.blogspot.com/2012/06/arson-causing-wildfires-2012-in-realm.html
