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Article: BIG CREEK FIRE FACT SHEET, AUG. 13
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 13, 2006
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service unit - Gallatin National Forest - issued the following press release:
DATE OF DETECTION: July 29, 2006
CAUSE: Lightning
CURRENT SIZE: 12,134 Acres
CONTAINMENT: 80 percent
LOCATION: The Big Creek Fire is located approximately 29 miles southwest of Livingston, Montana, and approximately 5 miles west, southwest of Emigrant, Montana.
The fire is burning on the Livingston Ranger District of the Gallatin National Forest as well as private land within Park County.
STATUS: The fire remained active Saturday until late afternoon showers came through dumping approximately two tenths of an inch of rain over the fire area. These rains were not ...