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To: LindyBill who wrote (245317)4/11/2008 12:31:28 AM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (1) of 793895
 
They're doing just that now, LindyBill. Last summer when I was on the lookout, there was a 300 acre fire burning on Harrington Ridge about eight miles south of us. It blew up a couple weeks later, and there were several other large fires in the discovery area of the lookout we had been in. Thousands of acres on fire. They were all let-burn fires.

In 1962 when I had my first summer on lookout they would have contained those fires at a few acres by jumping on them. They did just that on a fire across East Moose Creek way up in the goat rocks.

Back then we wanted to find fires more than anything. Here's a little story I posted some time back:
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