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Smokey skies from Chadron wildfires

Soapweed

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There are bad wildfires on the southern edge of Chadron this evening, ninety miles to the west. The skies are smokey, even from this far away.

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CattleRMe

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Soapweed my Aunt called this evening and said she heard that the fire was behind the hill at the college. I have been on trying to find some news and have found nothing. Mom tried to call my cousin up there and got nothing so we are all kinda wondering and I can't seem to find anything about it.
 

Soapweed

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CattleRMe said:
Soapweed my Aunt called this evening and said she heard that the fire was behind the hill at the college. I have been on trying to find some news and have found nothing. Mom tried to call my cousin up there and got nothing so we are all kinda wondering and I can't seem to find anything about it.

Go to www.chadrad.com.
 

Turkey Track Bar

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kolanuraven said:
Soapweed....our friend in commom....Bloom, may have lost every critter he had last nite due to this fire.

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

I hope and pray he and others dealing with fire are safe, and their livestock all alive and well.

TTB :wink:
 

kolanuraven

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Thanks....I'll pass along the well wishes when I hear something later on today maybe.

I tried to call earlier ( I'm 2 hrs ahead time wise) but they were already out and gone it seemed.

Gonna be a long day even for me on this side of the Mississippi
 

CattleRMe

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The car salesman I'm buying a car from this week was in Chadron this weekend and was going back tonight to keep battling the blaze.

Smoke is smelling heavy here and I guess it's the Chadron one since the wind is so strong out of the west blowing east.
 

James

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I have spent Friday thru Monday cutting firelines with the county grader and watching the forest service in action (very slow and they don't give a damn what happens or get burned as long as they can draw their pay) It was not fun, but under their control you can only do what they want done. Better quit before I get ****** all over again finally picked some rain tonight and it should help put the remaining fire out. See ya and have a good one
 

Haytrucker

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The water hauling business was not much different. We noticed a significantly different approach when the feds assumed control of operations on the Rudloff fire. Thank God the weather turned, or the other half of the country would have burned I'm afraid.
Sunday afternoon while volunteers had their hands full on scene, we loaded water in Harrison by the school. Across the street enough vehicles were present at an "orientation", that at the rate of one shovel per, five or six miles of fire line could have been dug by hand that afternoon. I realize there are time and distance logistics involved in getting this type of team assembled and working, but I couldn't help but think of some guy named Nero.
If the team hadn't brought their checkbook, I think the welcome mat would have got hidden pretty quick. I guess everything has to be a "big deal" if Uncle Sam is involved. To their credit the first thing they did was to unburn 11,000 acres on that particular fire! The smoke was so bad on Sunday I guess it was hard to tell how big a fire actually was.
9 News from Denver left Monday afternoon, and I met the Red Cross leaving yesterday after lunch. Both of those are good signs I would think.
 

RoperAB

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Im wondering if Chadron is where all this smoke around here is coming from? Its coming from the south and it sure is thick.
 

Tap

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Roper, I am not getting the smoke from the Chadron fires. So I don't think that is it. I would say Montana, or since half the state of NV is on fire, that would be the one. I don't know where you are in AB though.
 
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