Are Idaho and Montana on fire?

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I felt a little wiggle here sitting at my couch and figured I’d see if rsoe has anything to report yet. I’m in SW Oregon.

Check out all those little green icons all over Idaho and Montana.

I just find it curious is all.

That's a little weird. Haven't heard anything on the news about these fires.

What's going on with that red circle flashing over Sacramento?

Nevermind, I just clicked on it, an earthquake, 2.6. Nothing to worry about.

I dont know for sure but I did see the biohazard froma few days ago any clues on that aswell?

EDIS Number: BH-20120115-33787-USA
Event type: Biological Hazard
Date/Time: Sunday, 15 January, 2012 at 07:11 (07:11 AM) UTC
Last update: ---
Cause of event:
Damage level: Unknown
Geographic information
Continent: North-America
Country: USA
County / State: State of Massachusetts
Area: Scusset Beach
City: Sandwich
Coordinate: N 41° 46.862, W 70° 30.100
Number of affected people / Humanities loss
Foreign people: Affected is unknown.

Earthquake
Country: United States
State: California
Location: Castle Rock Springs
Date: 2012-01-18 : 16:53:44
Magnitude: 2.6
Depth: 1.40 km

The others are wildfires, about 8 of them in that general area of Idaho. Doesn't seem unusual.

reply to post by windword


Yeah.
I'm in a worried state here wondering if I really felt the couch wiggle. I'm next to the Cascadia sub -d- zone.

activefiremaps.fs.fed.us...

Not much going on, at most a small fire in Montana that hasn't even burned an acre. Nothing to worry about, if there was a huge fire it would be on TV.

reply to post by Ophiuchus 13


I saw that too and found it to be curious as well...

If you click on the icons in Idaho and Montana, it gives a date of October and December 2011. Must be an error on there end cause those fire were a few months ago

reply to post by JibbyJedi


Yeah. Wild fires are not a rarity.

Reporting them seems unimportant with all the other curiosities happening in the news...

reply to post by Alchemst7


Good catch!

I usually scan stuff but have been trying to keep up in the forum.

Originally posted by Ophiuchus 13
I dont know for sure but I did see the biohazard froma few days ago any clues on that aswell?

EDIS Number: BH-20120115-33787-USA
Event type: Biological Hazard
Date/Time: Sunday, 15 January, 2012 at 07:11 (07:11 AM) UTC
Last update: ---
Cause of event:
Damage level: Unknown
Geographic information
Continent: North-America
Country: USA
County / State: State of Massachusetts
Area: Scusset Beach
City: Sandwich
Coordinate: N 41° 46.862, W 70° 30.100
Number of affected people / Humanities loss
Foreign people: Affected is unknown.

Dolphins beaching themselves. Cape Cod area.

not sure about idaho but kalispell is not on fire well the burn pile in my back yard is but as its snowing i dont think we need to worry to much good looking out though

www.inciweb.org...

The wildfire's are from the 16th

Copper Mountain Fire Wildfire Beaverhead - Deerlodge National Forest Inactive 1,167 12/16/2011
Whitetail Peak Wildfire Beaverhead - Deerlodge National Forest Inactive 70 12/16/2011
Lutz Wildfire Beaverhead - Deerlodge National Forest Inactive 3,982 12/16/2011
Stewart Fire Wildfire Beaverhead - Deerlodge National Forest Inactive 4,213 12/16/2011

The number is the acres

As far as I know we are snowed in and more is coming!

It's been very very windy the last few days in eastern Montana, so a small fire could grow pretty fast. I haven't heard of anything widespread though.
It's snowing like crazy atm so if there are fires here...or were they're gone now.

I'm from that area. That just means they have had some lightning storms setting off wildfires. The panhandle of Idaho is mostly pristine forests and lighting strikes set off the underbrush.

It is actually a good thing this time of year while they are easy to control. The underbrush has to burn now and then to keep the forest healthy. A large part of that area is Wilderness Land and untouched.

The Sierra Club stopping the clearing of brush in Yellowstone was the cause of the bad fires in the 1990's. Their lawsuits have caused huge damage to the forests by stopping the Foresters from doing their jobs. In wild areas the burns happen often because they are not controlled. The trees are better for it.

Nothing to worry about here.

Originally posted by mutantgenius

Originally posted by Ophiuchus 13
I dont know for sure but I did see the biohazard froma few days ago any clues on that aswell?

EDIS Number: BH-20120115-33787-USA
Event type: Biological Hazard
Date/Time: Sunday, 15 January, 2012 at 07:11 (07:11 AM) UTC
Last update: ---
Cause of event:
Damage level: Unknown
Geographic information
Continent: North-America
Country: USA
County / State: State of Massachusetts
Area: Scusset Beach
City: Sandwich
Coordinate: N 41° 46.862, W 70° 30.100
Number of affected people / Humanities loss
Foreign people: Affected is unknown.

Dolphins beaching themselves. Cape Cod area.

Thank you