Thanks Canada, for help with Wildfires

Subject: Thanks Canada, for help with Wildfires
From: Alice
Date: 04 Aug 00 - 02:44 PM

Wildland Fire Update Eight firefighting crews from Canada were requested and will be assisting suppression efforts in Montana.

Four strong winds, they blow "smokey"....

Alice in Montana (cough, cough)

Subject: RE: Thanks Canada, for help with Wildfires
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Aug 00 - 05:38 PM

Hi Alice, Canada is glad to help. We appreciate beautiful Montana...at least I sure do, having seen a bit of it once. It means "mountain" in Spanish, except they put that little "n-yay" symbol above the "n", which changes the pronunciation a bit. Anyway, best of luck putting out those fires.

Subject: RE: Thanks Canada, for help with Wildfires
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Aug 00 - 05:53 PM

Hope you're still safe, albeit smokey, Alice. International help is always a wonderful thing.

Say, none of the fires are to close to the NYCFTTS are they?

Spaw

Subject: RE: Thanks Canada, for help with Wildfires
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Aug 00 - 06:18 PM

Lots of that going on here, too, Alice. One county had 14 fires started by lightening in one afternoon this week. Thanks to all who've come from all over to help.

Subject: RE: Thanks Canada, for help with Wildfires
From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Aug 00 - 08:46 PM

Addendum to kat's message: Fires in Wyo that are very bad, but so far neither kat or I am threatened. Others in other towns are though, so help us out, here. Let's put them out with Mudcat Power.......send LOTSA rain.

Subject: RE: Thanks Canada, for help with Wildfires
From: RichM
Date: 04 Aug 00 - 09:24 PM

We have had some rain in Eastern Ontario almost every day for 2 months...

The plants and trees are the greenest, lushest I've seen in years....Wish I could send some H²0 out west to help you...

Rich

Subject: RE: Thanks Canada, for help with Wildfires
From: rangeroger
Date: 04 Aug 00 - 10:40 PM

Yeah.Idaho's on fire right now also.Well over 300,000 acres and climbing.Just put the Army and the Marines on a couple of the bigger ones.
Canada has also responded with their air attack planes.
Thank you for your help and send water.

rr

Subject: RE: Thanks Canada, for help with Wildfires
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Aug 00 - 10:44 PM

I think I heard them say on the radio over 3 or 4 million acres just in the West, so far, with half a season yet to go. It is terribly dry and every strike of lightening threatens. We just missed losing some omes out at the old Goose Egg this past week; that area was made famous in Owen Wister's book The Virginian. As it is a lot of acreage and vegetation is gone.

Please do all you can to send that water round; we're in sore need of it.

Thanks,

kat

Subject: RE: Thanks Canada, for help with Wildfires
From: Alice
Date: 25 Aug 00 - 09:36 PM

Australians have joined in helping in the last couple of weeks. Lots of military help has been sent from bases around the country. Thanks to all. It's exhausting and dangerous, and crews wear out quickly. The problem for crews is partly not enough trained crew leaders.

As Les B noted in the other thread on the fires, we have been in smoke for weeks. The fire north of where I lived was started when a farmer was harvesting wheat, quickly spreading to forested area.

A rain storm that soaked the valley yesterday actually made the fires worse, blowing with such winds that the fire exploded and crews had to be pulled back. Here is our local paper for updates. Bozeman Daily Chronicle
The web cam on the newspaper page shows how smoky the air is. Usually the sky is clear and deep blue.

Thanks for the concern. It will probably need winter snows to completely put the fires out, November or December.

Alice