FreeLists / az-observing / [AZ-Observing] Re: Fires in the Northland Redux--Cherry fire

[SaguaroAstro@xxxxxxx]

All 
I called the PNF Fire hot line this afternoon and spoke with a nice young 
lady who after looking up a whole bunch of stuff essentially said the area is 
open e.g. we can be there but no open fires. See gave me the number for the 
forest ranger station that covers the area, but I had to run out and didn't get 
a 
chance to call them. I imagine they would have better info as to whats 
happening now and planed for by the weekend. According to the PNF website, the 
Cherry 
Prescribed burn is 85% complete. According to the repot, the Plume Stan saw 
yesterday afternoon was due to an unexpected wind shift that sparked an area 
that they had not gotten to yet, although it was within the boundries of the 
prescribed area and under control.

So given that it may well be that the fire danger may be over by the time we 
want to observe.

I'll post again, after I speak with the rangers.

In a message dated 6/17/2003 18:56:33 US Mountain Standard Time, 
mluttinen@xxxxxxxxx writes:


> Hello all,
> 
> It looks like there is a wildfire near the Cherry Rd site, as reported =
> on
> the evening local news. Stan, can you confirm? If so, it doesn=92t look =
> good
> for this weekend if there is going to be fire danger and smoke in the =
> air .
> . .
> 
> Matt


Rick Tejera
Editor SACnews
Saguaro Astronomy Club
Phoenix, Arizona
SaguaroAstro@xxxxxxx
www.saguaroastro.org


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