[Geysers] Fire Information

[TSBryan at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/14/2007 11:52:32 AM Mountain Daylight Time,  
cross at bmi.net writes:

Here's a  little more fire information.  The link just below (the same as I
gave  earlier) shows all of the fires in YNP.  It refers to Columbine  (close
to OF) which is now out and Columbine 1 which is on the east side of  the
lake almost due east of West Thumb.  It's shown more than 5 miles  south of
the east entrance road, so I assume that the road was closed for  logistical
reasons.


Fire info as of Tuesday afternoon. The East Entrance road was closed all  day 
yesterday as the fire had burned quite close to the roadway and was less  
than three miles from the entrance station. The road reopened today. This  
afternoon I heard that the housing there had been evacuated, but the road was  still 
open. However, too, this afternoon the wind came up and things might well  
have changed. 
 
That fire IS Columbine 2, and that is the name that has now  appeared for two 
days in Montana newspapers and is being used verbally  by rangers... As for 
the fire map, I certainly would not trust it, if for no  reason other than it 
appears to show nothing more than the point of origin of a  fire and does not 
represent how far and how much it has burned. As well as  clearly being 
incomplete and, I feel, inaccurate. Columbine 2 is now over  12,000 acres.
 
Scott Bryan
 
By the way, it is extremely smoky here in West this evening -- the  
surrounding mountains to the northwest and north are completely shrouded, the  
Lionsheads to the west are barely visible.



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