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<blockquote data-quote="PLTannery" data-source="post: 1155753" data-attributes="member: 22060"><p>I've heard lots of people talking about cattle that died against fences and natural barriers.. I am trying to get in contact with some of the people who have lost stock to try to salvage some of the parts I can use. I am looking to buy them, but am having a hard time getting anyone to work with me. The fires are still spreading, but slowly. We got quite a bit of rain on the Fire side(west), Not so much on our side (east) with WIND and lightning. We had at least two new strike started fires in our district dispite the rain. One just about a mile and a half from the house. Fortunately we got about 1/4" of rain that really slowed the spread of the new starts. </p><p></p><p>With as fast as that fire spread, as little warning as everyone had, it would have been IMPOSSIBLE to move any of the cattle off of the larger range areas. Even people who had stock in corrals had a hard time getting them out. Here we have a large, heavily grazed pasture we can get the cattle into for a fire evac. We are not in the timber so the fire would not be as intense as the Carlton Complex area. The last time it burned thru here (big) we just opened the gate and the cattle got themselves into the black unharmed. </p><p></p><p>We donated some hay, feed and medical supplies earlier this week to the fairgrounds. At that time they had about 17 ton in donations. But it appeared that most of the evacuated livestock at the fairgrounds was horses and a few goats/sheep. From the sounds of it, most of the cattle on the Malott/Chillowist side of this were lost. </p><p></p><p>It seems there is less delays with smaller fires because the chain of command is shorter. Once a fire gets this big, there are so many meetings and hands for orders to pass thru that it does slow stuff down.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PLTannery, post: 1155753, member: 22060"] I've heard lots of people talking about cattle that died against fences and natural barriers.. I am trying to get in contact with some of the people who have lost stock to try to salvage some of the parts I can use. I am looking to buy them, but am having a hard time getting anyone to work with me. The fires are still spreading, but slowly. We got quite a bit of rain on the Fire side(west), Not so much on our side (east) with WIND and lightning. We had at least two new strike started fires in our district dispite the rain. One just about a mile and a half from the house. Fortunately we got about 1/4" of rain that really slowed the spread of the new starts. With as fast as that fire spread, as little warning as everyone had, it would have been IMPOSSIBLE to move any of the cattle off of the larger range areas. Even people who had stock in corrals had a hard time getting them out. Here we have a large, heavily grazed pasture we can get the cattle into for a fire evac. We are not in the timber so the fire would not be as intense as the Carlton Complex area. The last time it burned thru here (big) we just opened the gate and the cattle got themselves into the black unharmed. We donated some hay, feed and medical supplies earlier this week to the fairgrounds. At that time they had about 17 ton in donations. But it appeared that most of the evacuated livestock at the fairgrounds was horses and a few goats/sheep. From the sounds of it, most of the cattle on the Malott/Chillowist side of this were lost. It seems there is less delays with smaller fires because the chain of command is shorter. Once a fire gets this big, there are so many meetings and hands for orders to pass thru that it does slow stuff down. [/QUOTE]
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