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Post by bchutchens on Oct 11, 2009 20:10:53 GMT -8
The smoke is really coming into our area here in Cascade Park. Smells like it is right here.
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Post by shortbus on Oct 11, 2009 20:11:26 GMT -8
thats what i heard
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Post by bchutchens on Oct 11, 2009 20:12:17 GMT -8
Just think if the responders from las night would have stopped at the gravel pit (Jackson Pass), this may not have happened.
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Post by shortbus on Oct 11, 2009 20:13:00 GMT -8
they wanted to go home and not work
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Post by bchutchens on Oct 11, 2009 20:14:36 GMT -8
The wind is not very stronge here, but it could be real big in the morning. Sounds big now.
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Post by racincowboy on Oct 11, 2009 20:14:56 GMT -8
About time some people get tickets up there. Hopefully this thing doesnt get too big.
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Post by shortbus on Oct 11, 2009 20:15:32 GMT -8
about ten min ago Darel said it was up to 20 acers
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Post by bchutchens on Oct 11, 2009 20:16:21 GMT -8
National Weather Service: Portland, OR Columbus Day: Partly sunny, with a high near 56. Breezy, with a east wind between 18 and 23 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph.
Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 37. East wind between 14 and 17 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.
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Post by anglebar on Oct 11, 2009 20:16:35 GMT -8
What does "baz" stand for?
Bill, I can hear other things going on in town besides the fire, or you hear something specific I missed?
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Post by bchutchens on Oct 11, 2009 20:17:06 GMT -8
They changed channels, I think.
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Post by bchutchens on Oct 11, 2009 20:17:53 GMT -8
Baz is the gate outside of Jones Creek Trailhead.
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Post by pistonschick on Oct 11, 2009 20:18:43 GMT -8
HISTORY OF THE YACOLT BURN FIRE IN 1902
Yacolt Burn, largest forest fire in recorded state history, rages from September 11 to 13, 1902. HistoryLink.org Essay 5196 : Printer-Friendly Format
From September 11 to 13, 1902, the Yacolt Burn, the largest forest fire in recorded Washington state history, destroys 238,920 acres -- more than 370 square miles -- and kills 38 people in Clark, Cowlitz, and Skamania counties. The fire is fanned by unusual dry winds from the east and travels 36 miles in 36 hours. There is no organized effort to stop the conflagration, which consumes $30 million in timber -- more than $600 million in 2001 dollars. As many as 80 other fires around the state that summer consume more than 400,000 acres of timber. Rain finally extinguishes the Yacolt Burn.
The causes of the Yacolt Burn were never firmly established. The origin was variously recorded as the Wind River Valley, the Washougal River Valley, along the Lewis River, and at Star Mountain. Loggers burning logging slash, logging operations, and farmers burning to clear land were common causes of fires.
Horace Wetherall was the only forest ranger employed in the Mount Rainier Forest Reserve. He had recently been reprimanded for employing a fire crew and he was reluctant to be disciplined again. When he spotted the fire, he took no action to battle the blaze. Dry winds from Eastern Washington carried the fire west and north, darkening the sky. A steamboat on the Columbia River had to use a searchlight to navigate. Local residents feared an eruption of Mount St. Helens or Mount Rainier. Smoke reached Seattle and Astoria.
In 1902, there was no organized system for wildfire fighting, so residents and loggers just fled. The flames reached the town of Yacolt, then turned north. Homes, churches, barns, and livestock were lost. At least 146 families were left homeless. Troops from Vancouver Barracks helped evacuate residents.
Logger Monroe Vallett was charged with starting the fire on Nelson Creek east of Stevenson. He was acquitted when fearful witnesses refused to testify against him.
In 1903, the State Legislature established a state fire warden. In 1908, private landowners formed the Washington Fire Protection Association and funded a system of fire wardens and a program of fire prevention on private lands. In 1910, the U.S. Forest Service began to organize a program of wildfire suppression on public lands.
Sources: Charles S. Cowan, The Enemy is fire!: The History of Forest Protection In the Big Timber Country (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co., 1961); Rick McClure, U.S. Forest Service, "The Yacolt Burn," The Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center Website (www.columbiagorge.org/yacolt.htm); Edwin Van Syckle, They Tried To Cut It All: Grays Harbor... Turbulent Years of Greed and Greatness (Seattle: Pacific Search Press, 1980), 192-195.
By David Wilma, February 14, 2003
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Post by bchutchens on Oct 11, 2009 20:21:29 GMT -8
We just need the rain that is coming to get here sooner.
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Post by pistonschick on Oct 11, 2009 20:22:55 GMT -8
Tonight's fire is travelling "west and north".
Does history repeat itself tonight - 107 years later...
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Post by bchutchens on Oct 11, 2009 20:23:29 GMT -8
I hope not.
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