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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Wildfire bears down on Montana towns as West burns |
| 2021-08-13 |
| [NYPOST] A wildfire bore down on rural southeastern Montana towns Thursday as continuing hot, dry weather throughout the West drove flames through more than a dozen states. Several thousand people remained under evacuation orders as the Richard Spring Fire advanced across the sparsely-populated Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... the Dixie Fire — which started July 13 and is the largest wildfire burning in the nation — threatened a dozen small communities in the northern Sierra Nevada even though its southern end was mostly corralled by fire lines. The blaze had burned over 780 square miles, destroyed some 550 homes and nearly obliterated the town of Greenville. It was 30 percent contained. On Wednesday, the Montana fire displayed extreme behavior and had grown by tens of thousands of acres, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. The blaze, which was only 15 percent surrounded, began Sunday and powerful gusts caused it to explode across more than 230 square miles. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Thousands are evacuated as wildfires surge towards Montana towns as 105 different blazes torch 2.4 million acres across the American West |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-08-13 06:52 |
| #1 send in some hot coppers! |
| Posted by: Sluse Grealet9429 2021-08-13 00:05 |