Wildfire Photos, News
Photo Gallery user ShebaJo posted this image yesterday:
The photo was taken in Clifton, CO Monday evening. She says:
Our first really colorful "wildfire sunset" of 2006. drought & record breaking heat look to be making this a bad wildfire summer. Small fires in western Colorado, eastern Utah... makes sunsets & sunrises very colorful.
This article reports that 3,700 acres were burned Wednesday by one fire about 200 miles west of Denver.
The photo above was taken by U.S. Fire Service agent Bob Dyson, of Arizona's "Potato" fire (fires, like hurricanes are named by the government). This website has the most up-to-date information on this fire, which was caused by lightning.
Today's AP Photo of the Day also shows the Potato Fire:
Potato Fire - June 14, 2006 - Randy Chevalier, left, and Andrew Brown of the Show Low, Ariz., fire department, work to extinguish hot spots less than a half-mile from homes in the Chevelon Retreat community Wednesday, June 14, 2006, near Heber, Ariz. The 6,000 acre, lightning-caused Potato Fire is burning eight miles northwest of Heber and continues to threaten the homes of about 30 residents. (AP Photo/ Tom Hood)
This article notes that another 12,000-acre fire in Arizona (can you imagine? that's almost 20 square miles!) is now 95% contained.
In neighboring Utah, more than 10,000 acres have burned in the last week, according to the Deseret News.
The government's national fire website reports that 93,888 acres are burning nationwide today and nearly 3,000,000 acres have been burned this year... "toasting" the 10-year average of 882,000 and the previous 6-year record of 1.44 million (2002).
Below is a map showing major wildfires as of today (NIFC).
AND AS FOR JULY... our apolgies to the West. Our current forecast shows much-below normal precipitation for the area affected by today's wildfires.
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