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The National Weather Service has issued Red Flag Warnings or Fire Weather Watches for areas in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. On the map above, the red areas are Warnings, while the yellow represents a Watch.
The maps were current as of 9:05 a.m. MDT on Monday. Red Flag Warnings can change throughout the day as the National Weather Service offices around the country update and revise their forecasts and maps. For the most current data visit this NWS site.
Author Bill GabbertPosted on Categories Uncategorized1 Comment on Two fires in Black Hills a day after it snowed A warm, sunny day melted most of the snow that had fallen about 24 hours before.
Above: The Lame Johnny Fire east of Custer State Park. Photo by Bill Gabbert.
In spite of the snow that was on the ground the day before, firefighters dealt with two fires in the Black Hills of South Dakota on Sunday. The Lame Johnny Fire, named after the nearby Lame Johnny Creek and a road by the same name, burned about 50 acres of grass east of Custer State park and west of Highway 79.
The other, off Penial Road west of Custer, burned a couple of acres before fire crews knocked it down.
The cause of both was burning slash piles that escaped. With snow on the ground it is likely that the private landowners who ignited the piles felt comfortable yesterday, not expecting the snow to disappear so quickly.
Author Bill GabbertPosted on Categories Uncategorized6 Comments on Drone footage of the huge Anderson Creek fire in Kansas The Kiowa County Media Center, a non-profit organization, shot this very impressive footage of the Anderson Creek Fire that has burned close to 400,000 acres in Kansas and Oklahoma. They uploaded it to YouTube on March 25, 2016.
Author Bill GabbertPosted on Categories Uncategorized2 Comments on NIFC distributes controversial photo of a sawyer The National Interagency Fire Center published a photo of a chain saw operator on their Facebook page. After about 28 hours it had collected over two dozen comments, with many of them being critical of what they saw in the photo.
The staff at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in northwest Indiana had to cancel their plans on March 22 to conduct a prescribed fire. Instead, they spent their time suppressing two wildfires.
Photos are from the National Park Service.
There is a chance of a few dry lightning strikes across northeast New Mexico during the late afternoon today.
The National Weather Service has issued Red Flag Warnings or Fire Weather Watches for areas in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona for today.
The maps were current as of 9 a.m. MDT on Friday. Red Flag Warnings can change throughout the day as the National Weather Service offices around the country update and revise their forecasts and maps. For the most current data visit this NWS site.
