60,000 acres in a very short time.
King Ranch Fire
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Google maps is showing the fire. Very handy tool if it stays up to date.
puzzled in oregon
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National Interagency Fire Center - Inci-Web has good information on on these fires also
Gobbler'sKnob
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Will pray for them.
greybeard
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Some of the new locals were pretty worried today when the sky filled with dark brown plumes of smoke till I explained the Tx Forest Service was doing a prescribed/controlled burn right up the road in the National Forest. They do it to try to keep underbrush burned out. Just 1200 ac this time.
It's so wet and green right now I don't know how they got much to burn especially considering there was no or little wind.
It's so wet and green right now I don't know how they got much to burn especially considering there was no or little wind.
Gobbler'sKnob
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The litter layer, if it gets going good, will spread the fire pretty handily even if the brush above it is green.
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We kind of drug our feet on a few burns after that 1" of rain. We purposely waited for a little green up. It's not ideal burn conditions but we will live to fight another day.
greybeard
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Our litter layer just got 2" of rain a couple of evenings ago.
it's soft and mushy underfoot.
Gobbler'sKnob
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Then darn, I'll have to be stumped right alongside ya. Don't know how they managed.
