ARSON CAUSING WILDFIRES 2012 ? :In the Realm of Possibility

Posted by ETIS Hub Blog on Tuesday, May 9, 2017 Under: wildfires
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

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original: http://envirocomputer.blogspot.com/2012/06/arson-causing-wildfires-2012-in-realm.html


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