[Az-Geocaching] Hmmm...

[Brian Casteel]

Yeah, I read that story, but thought it might have been a cover-up for 
the truth of the fire being caused by the flame from a hot air balloon 
inflation.

Brian
Team A.I.


Roping The Wind wrote:
>   
>> From: Brian Casteel <>
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>> Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Hmmm...
>> Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:41:59 -0600
>>
>> Figures you'd head out of town and up to Sedona, and a wildfire breaks
>> out...IN Sedona.  ;p
>>     
>
> The La Barranca fire, as it is being called, is now pretty much fully 
> contained. I havent seen any smoke now in 2 days. The first day, I saw the 
> smoke. Thought it was a house fire or something. I walked into a Circle K 
> for a drink and 5 minutes later walked out of the store and there was a huge 
> black column of smoke rising up. That thing went up fast! It got worse very 
> quickly. Within a very short time frame (maybe an hour at most) it went from 
> a few acres to 150 acres. In just that time, it had consumed 2 very 
> expensive homes and properties as well as a guest house. The fire was buring 
> in Jacks Canyon, which is just a couple miles north of the Village of Oak 
> Creek. Fortunately, the fire worked its way up the canyon toward the north 
> and away from town... or that might have been very ugly. They kept the fire 
> within the canyon and got it contained rather quickly. I think it burned 
> about 900 acres. I can see small areas of white smoke. But it is pretty much 
> just smoldering out now. The fire was human caused and is believed to be 
> caused by workers from a fence company that were grinding on a metal post 
> causing sparks to ignite nearby dry fuel. It is amazing that that is all it 
> took to destroy two families homes and 900 acres of national forest and 
> wilderness area.
>
> The fire started buring in between two subdivisions of high dollar homes and 
> then moved up into Jacks Canyon, where the fire stayed within. There are 
> still crews out there working on it today... 4 days laters. But I didnt see 
> much of any smoke even on the second day. They knocked it out very quickly.
>
> The forest is just WAY dry right now. It only takes an idiot to throw a 
> cigerette out the window of their car (or an idiot griding on a fence post 
> as it was) and thousands of acres of forest and many homes can be devastated 
> in a very short time frame. Another good reason to ban cigerettes and 
> smoking in Arizona, IMHO! The sooner the monsoon season gets here, the 
> better. We will need the rain. It amazes me how stupid and how oblivious 
> some people are to the severity of this.
>
> Scott
> Team RTW
>
>
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