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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 14, 1988
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Blaze destroys 97 homes Improved weather conditions aid firefighters
The Associated Press
LAKE WILDWOOD, Calif. -- Nearly 3,000 firefighters battled a third day yesterday to control a raging timber fire that encircled an industrial complex after it was destroyed and forcing thousands to evacuate.
At least 97 homes and 60 other buildings were destroyed by the blaze northwest of Sacramento in the footballs of the Sierra Nevada. The structures were threatened by the speedy blaze fanned by the wind.
In less than 72 hours it blackened more than 46 square miles of brush northwest of the Grass Valley and Nevada City in a half-moon arc are 12 miles long.
"This is the classic forest-urban interface. This is the fire of the 1990s," said Ed Wagggoner of the state Department of Forestry, the
operations director of the 2,788 member firefighting force.
However, fire officials said firelighting conditions were improved in the area. A 20-30 mph wind that blew Sunday and Monday, and slightly higher
"We're not out of the woods, but we're relieved. We have a more normal weather situation today," she said. "Forestry spokesman Frank Bates."
An estimated 8,000 people were evacuated from their homes in several communities.
Fire officials stressed that many homes were still in danger, especially the 500-acre community of 500 residents. The community is in the heavily wooded bottom of a steep canyon near the seven miles west of Grass Valley.
Firefighters had been hoping to
use Highway 49 northwest of Nevada City as a firebreak, but a five-mile stretch of the highway was closed yesterday afternoon. It appeared that the thick road and spread toward hundreds of homes.
"If the fire gets into the town, then we have to reassess whether we should be in there," Iverson said.
Fire planning chief Steve Iverson said saving Rough and Ready was one of their top priorities yesterday, but cautioned that it would be necessary a limited area for firefighters by a narrow road.
There were reports that people were allowed to return to the town but "we've had a flareup and they're still evacuated there," said Carolyn Phillips, spokeswoman for the state department of Forestry.
Marines sent to Yellowstone
The Associated Press
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — The first marines sent to help battle forest fires that have charred nearly 1 million acres of Yellowstone National Park arrived yesterday. They helped as the wet weather that has quiet laptes began to lift.
The Marines will help bolster sagging firefighters in the on-deck waterways crews that have been on fire lines for some time. The job of Valeen of Park Service.
"We knew we were losing our caring," he said. "Some of them have been left behind, and most usual 21-day assignment. Some need to get back to college. So they are going to do that."
About 550 Marines flew into West Yellowstone, Mont., from Camp Ammon and 7,200 firefighters still in the park battling fire in Wyoming since
early July.
However, Marines will have received only two days of training before they are placed on fire lines. They will have to be accompanied by seasoned firefighters, who provide additional pressure on fire personnel.
In all, 1,200 Marines are being sent, with 1,400 Army soldiers due from Fort Lewis, Wash., to double personnel assigned to the fires.
By yesterday, the fires had blackened 938,720 acres of the 2.2 million acre national forests and parks surrounding Yellowstone in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho brought an increase to 1.4 million acres.
Fires also burned yesterday in northern California, where 8,000 people were evacuated from communities in an area northeast of Los Angeles. Washington and Utah, which had its last big fire almost
underd control at 8,500 acres. Washington state's biggest fire, in Colville National Forest, was declared contained at 21,126 acres.
Controversy has surrounded the Yellowstone fires because of the Park Service's "let burn" policy, of not fighting fires that start naturally. In past years such fires have remained small, but critics blame the policy for letting fires spread and control in this unusually dry summer.
President Ronald Reagan said
night that he had not been aware
of the attacks. He also
Secretary Donald Hodel told
him "we were withdrawing this
Colorado Gov. Roy Romer said Democratic presidential candidate Michael Duckworth would join him in Montana Gov. Ted Swinden and Idaho Gov. Cecil Andron to survey fire damage in Yellowstone.
Some farmers are expecting record harvests
The Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa — This man's drought stretched corn, wheat and soybean yields in the Midwest, but some farmers in the pocket that received rain could reap bumper and harvest them two weeks early.
"It looks like we'll average a strong 150 bushels per acre out," said Art Benken, manager of the Farmer's Cooperative Elevator
in Wesley, in north-central Iowa. That's about double the estimated statewide average last year.
State-by-state estimates of corn and bean yields in Monday's September crop report from the U.S. Agriculture Department said drought damage had not worsened since the August report.
The national corn harvest is estimated at 4.46 billion bushels, a five-year low. More than one-sixth of the
crop is in Iowa, where the government crops a harvest of 811.2 million bushels, the smallest in 24 years.
While the corn and bean harvest will be reduced nationwide, other crops showed an increase, according to the report. August rains helped control weeds. Kentucky while the cotton crop in Texas will be the fourth-highest ever.
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