Justabirdwatcher
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Prayers for all those who lost their homes.
Crazy Fire Day
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fishing4sanity
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Between the smoke and terrible winds, yesterday felt like being at the threshold of hell.
Irrelevant
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Fyi radio is reporting cold springs fire at 174k acres in just over 24 hrs.
Westxhunter
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Anyone in those fire areas, ya'll stay safe out there.
westbranch
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One of my wife's friends is a firefighter for Spokane County. Last week she was sent to central WA, but they pulled her back to eastern WA yesterday morning for local fires. Hard to believe how fast some of the fires exploded in WA, CA and CO the last few days.
Irrelevant
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Correction. The Cold Springs fire started at 9 pm Sunday near Omak, it is estimated at 140k acres. It jumped the Columbia and started the Pearl Hill Fire, which is estimated at 170k acres. So one fire complex burned 310,000 acres in ~36 hrs, https://www.wenatcheeworld.com/payw...cle_b7ded4f0-f21a-11ea-9d78-0b27fcdd056c.html
This does not count all the other fires burning in E. WA, like this one: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/08/9105...-80-of-small-town-in-eastern-washington-state
teej89
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I thought the Evans canyon fire was the big one? Am I missing another?
It was smokey as hell this AM on the west side.
Edit: wow, it's miniscule compared to the others. Crazy part is I hunted last fall some areas where the Evans canyon fire is now.
It was smokey as hell this AM on the west side.
Edit: wow, it's miniscule compared to the others. Crazy part is I hunted last fall some areas where the Evans canyon fire is now.
kwyeewyk
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On top of everything else burned, the Pearl Hill fire burned over endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit breeding and release pens and newly established wild population in northern Douglas County. Emergency extraction efforts are underway but probably high mortality and a big hit to recovery efforts.
Irrelevant
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Typical westsider already, if it happens east if the crest it might as well not have happened at all.
Irrelevant
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They still have some around Ephrata though right?
kwyeewyk
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The main population at Sagebrush Flats hasn't burned yet, hopefully it stops running south cause it's not far away
teej89
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Whoa! Shots fired!
huntandfly
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Also pretty easily explained by news coverage and how close to home it is. No need for hostilities, us “westsiders” don’t hate the east side and some have even traveled over to help put out some fires over there
Irrelevant
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Some cool WA fire mapping/satellite imagery.
cliffmass.blogspot.com
The combined Cold Springs/Pearl Hill fires south of Omak, spread 60 MILES in 20 hours over grass and brush. They encompassed about a QUARTER MILLION acres (see map)
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cliffmass.blogspot.com
The combined Cold Springs/Pearl Hill fires south of Omak, spread 60 MILES in 20 hours over grass and brush. They encompassed about a QUARTER MILLION acres (see map)
huntandfly
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Sadly similar to what the Carlton did
TheJason
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Heart breaking. A very blue collar community.
FI460
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Fire started about 100 feet north of my house and has been running north up Bear Creek. Much of Talent and Phoenix have been evacuated with numerous home losses on the scanner.
My gf and I are stuck in Medford waiting for the flames to die down on I5. Hope to make it home this evening.
Hunting Wife
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Wow, you’re pretty close to where I grew up. My folks still live in the Applegate. They’ve been sending weather updates. It hasn’t sounded good down there.
