jlf1961
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Joined: 6/10/2008 From: Somewhere Texas Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: sappatoti Not just in Texas either, Jeff. Yesterday there were three separate brush fires all within four miles of where I live: one to the north, one to the east, and one to the southwest. Two of them have been fully contained and mostly put out and burned only about 150 acres between them. The third is about 90% contained but has grown to almost 1500 acres and is feared to race past the attempts of the firefighters on that remaining 10% yet to be contained. At last count there were over 1275 separate brush fires burning, as of last evening, within the state of Florida. If the flames aren't a nuisance, the stench of the smoke certainly is. Thing is that we have had brush fires all over the area. Last month there was one that burned 5000 acres north of town, yesterday and today we have the Rhodes fire, another one up North East of town, actually about a mile outside of the city limits, a fire down near Coleman, and a number of smaller fires that made some news but were put out by ranchers around here. Not to mention for the last 3 days we have had record highs, in the 90's.....
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