tiie eee

at aad oa te tat ae lw ee eee i a i Et hal el eal a Dal a DE EL ha ia lei alia ata aaa eae

_ Half a heotare burned

“TERRACE —~ Quick action’ by
forest service fire crews and rela-
tively calm wind conditions

_resulted-in minimal damage from .

~~” fast week’s forest fire on Copper
Mountain. |
~Kalum district operations man-

Auge AD

Square 100m by 100m,
“The fire started above the rock
‘face on the Thornhill side of the

up the mountain by a southerly
breeze. ,
- As soon as the alann’ was

to the mountain: -to > begin fighting
“dhe fire.
A call also went out to the air
“tanker: plane — stationed — in
Smithers. That arrived on the
: scene about an hour later and laid
» down-a scarlet blanket of ‘fire
~ ‘retardant to cut the flames’ line of
sadvance,.
A. helicopter equipped with a
ae water bucket then moved in to
“douse the fire, drawing its water

“fom a small lake atop Copper -

) 2 Mountain.
.- Holt ‘said. the Terrace attack
. crew was joined by two more
2, “three-man crews from Smithers
~ as well as several local firemen,
With the fire’ cffectively ex-.

tinguished that day, he said man-
- i, power was reduced to _just one” .

<~ “erew Tuesday which patrolled the
- area looking for hot spots. :
a A Thursday afternoon infra-red
»ytscan of the area had also failed to
~~. show up any hot spots, he added.
Holt. said the. forest. service
couldn't pin down the exact cause
“oof the blaze but it was ceitainly
“> jnan-made.

‘ ~The Copper Mountain: fire and

‘last Thursday’s ‘‘nuisauce”® fire
oh-in Thomhill: caused by children
7% brought the. total number of fires

:'in-dhe Kaluri forest district this

BG “fire season to 48, identical to last .

a ‘year ’s tally at the same, date,
_- However, Holt pointed out, last
-suyamer had been much cooler
~ than this one.
“The thing that has helped us is
we' ve had very litle lightning,”

: BI. aze Ss ni AT

--ager Erle Halt said only-half-a | ~ >
»., hectare burned in the blaze-which- |. -::
" began about midday on Monday, yoo

: AL hectare is ceqitivalent to a

raised, Holt said a three-man ini- FR
“, tial attack crew was helicoptered -

mountain and was being pushed 9

FOREST FIRE FIGHTERS were quick to react to a blaze which

broke. out tast week an Copper Mountain. After the tanker plane
had bombed upwind trees with a chemical fire retardant, a

douse the flames.

‘helicopter equipped with a water bucket (above) moved in to

he : said, adding, “Some other -
’ parts of the. province haven’ tbeen —

so lucky.”?

- Emphasizing conditions in the .
-region remained very. dry, Holt

urged everyone to be extremely

’ careful when out in the bush.

He .also, reminded people the
camp fire ban was still in effect .
‘thrdughout the-district. ' int

=

With all stations reporting fire
hazard conditions ‘at high or. ex-
‘treme, Holt said logging opera-

’ throughout the district.

And unless there was 4 break in
the weather, woods operations in
both the Kemano and Kitimat
Valley. areas were: likely to be -

a shut down completely this week,

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