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Article: BONE CREEK FIRE STILL BURNING WITHIN LAST REPORTED PERIMETER
- Article from:
- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 30, 2007
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service unit - Bighorn National Forest -issued the following press release:
The Bone Creek Fire has grown about one hundred acres in the past week to about 4110 acres. About 60% of the fire perimeter is 'contained', or has a fire line around it.
Medicine Wheel/Paintrock District Ranger Dave Sisk reports that, "Despite some recent rain that wetted down the lighter fuels, the Bone Creek fire area includes heavy amounts of standing and downed dead trees where we will continue to see individual tree torching and periodic fire runs within the existing fire perimeter." Sisk continued, "Our objective is to keep the fire from crossing Forest Roads 10 ...