Whitefish Fires are Not Really Letting Up.
Sad but True, the Fires of Northwest Montana show no sign of letting up. People are evacuating more and more every day. The ranchers have their cattle in the high country for the season and their fate does not look good.
Whitefish Fires News
SEELEY LAKE, Mont. -
A wildfire near this resort town could continue into the fall unless it rains, even though work to restrain the blaze is showing results, fire managers said Wednesday.
"We've got about a month and a half of this left," safety officer Scott Bates told fire crews at a Wednesday morning briefing.
"You guys have got to pace yourselves," he told firefighters, urging them to get plenty of rest.
Fire commander Glen McNitt said the area usually doesn't see substantial rainfall until mid-September and it was conceivable the fire could last until then. "This country will burn, and it will burn fast and furious," he said. More At... http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/08/08/ap4001814.html
A wildfire near this resort town could continue into the fall unless it rains, even though work to restrain the blaze is showing results, fire managers said Wednesday.
"We've got about a month and a half of this left," safety officer Scott Bates told fire crews at a Wednesday morning briefing.
"You guys have got to pace yourselves," he told firefighters, urging them to get plenty of rest.
Fire commander Glen McNitt said the area usually doesn't see substantial rainfall until mid-September and it was conceivable the fire could last until then. "This country will burn, and it will burn fast and furious," he said. More At... http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/08/08/ap4001814.html
Weather slows Brush Creek fireBy MICHAEL JAMISON of the Missoulian
WHITEFISH n Jack Price quit smoking last year, the year he turned 40.“But I don’t know why the hell I bothered,” he complained, waving his arms through a thick pall of smog. “It’s a pack-a-day habit out here. I’m just about sick and tired of these fires, though, I can tell you that for a fact.”Price was a grumpy ball of energy Monday morning, grumbling at the cell phone which wouldn’t lock a signal, shouting at the horses that wouldn’t trailer up, coughing in the smoke that wrapped everything in its heat.
“Thing is,” he said, “they aren’t even my horses.”
WHITEFISH n Jack Price quit smoking last year, the year he turned 40.“But I don’t know why the hell I bothered,” he complained, waving his arms through a thick pall of smog. “It’s a pack-a-day habit out here. I’m just about sick and tired of these fires, though, I can tell you that for a fact.”Price was a grumpy ball of energy Monday morning, grumbling at the cell phone which wouldn’t lock a signal, shouting at the horses that wouldn’t trailer up, coughing in the smoke that wrapped everything in its heat.
“Thing is,” he said, “they aren’t even my horses.”
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