OutToLunch
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For the second time this year, we have a major fire on the San Francisco Peaks north of Flagstaff. This one is worse, far worse, than the first. Zero containment, high winds and a dry forest.
This fire was started yesterday by a 57 year old man from Louisiana who had a camp fire. (Daytime temps were only in the 80s.). Don't know if he was one of the homeless or transients living in the forests (there are a lot of them) or just some bozo camper who can't live without a campfire. He fled but FS Law Enforcement, of which there are far too few, did manage to arrest him.
Fire was reported at 10.20 AM yesterday and rapidly spread to 5,000 acres by nightfall as yesterday was a Red Flag Warning day. Probably would have spread farther but it ran into the burn scar of last month's fire.
Today, the winds are worse with gusts 45-50 mph. The fire has reached the ridge of Fremont Peak and is expected to burn down into the inter basin.
Third major fire on the peaks in the last fifteen years, second one caused by a campfire.
It has been a brutal spring in Northern Arizona with more Red Flag Warning days than normal (I counted twelve in May) and higher heat than normal.
After 33 years in Flagstaff and forty years in the West, it just might be time to leave.
This fire was started yesterday by a 57 year old man from Louisiana who had a camp fire. (Daytime temps were only in the 80s.). Don't know if he was one of the homeless or transients living in the forests (there are a lot of them) or just some bozo camper who can't live without a campfire. He fled but FS Law Enforcement, of which there are far too few, did manage to arrest him.
Fire was reported at 10.20 AM yesterday and rapidly spread to 5,000 acres by nightfall as yesterday was a Red Flag Warning day. Probably would have spread farther but it ran into the burn scar of last month's fire.
Today, the winds are worse with gusts 45-50 mph. The fire has reached the ridge of Fremont Peak and is expected to burn down into the inter basin.
Third major fire on the peaks in the last fifteen years, second one caused by a campfire.
It has been a brutal spring in Northern Arizona with more Red Flag Warning days than normal (I counted twelve in May) and higher heat than normal.
After 33 years in Flagstaff and forty years in the West, it just might be time to leave.