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Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness BWCA 界限水域大火
準備了一個多月，來到界限水域的那天，正好開始森林大火，而且是在我們出發的那個海鷗湖上。飛機在頭上飛了兩天，後來我們才走遠了。非常好玩的四天四夜（本來要玩六天五夜的，但受了點兒傷，提前出來了，相機也掉水裏不靈了）。回來一看新聞，大火還沒有滅。這裏先上幾張森林大火的照片。還有晚霞。
第一天：大火
第二天：救火的飛機
飛機從頭上飛過。不能說是在遠離人群的野外了。嗬嗬
晚霞
營地晚霞
晚霞
請留意【阿姍影記】，今日將有很多新照片。
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ON SEAGULL LAKE, Minn. (AP) --- The largest fire the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has seen in a decade was burning over 1,000 acres in far northeastern Minnesota on Thursday.
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http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5560054.html
Last update: August 15, 2005 at 7:20 AM
Firefighters to get close to BWCA blaze
Matt McKinney, Star Tribune
August 15, 2005
Firefighters battling a blaze in the northern Minnesota wilderness plan to work "on the black" today -- meaning at the edge of the fire -- for the first time since the flames erupted July 30.
The move signals the growing confidence among crews two weeks into their fight against a fire that has consumed more than 2 square miles of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA).
"Tomorrow they will get up close and personal," Dewey Hanson, a spokesman for the Minnesota Interagency Fire Center in Grand Rapids, Minn., said Sunday.
Firefighters may get some help from the weather today. Forecasters are calling for a 20 percent chance of rain, but they also are predicting that wind speeds may rise to 20 miles per hour.
Crews also will have to watch for the danger of falling trees, known as snags, as they work among the blackened areas of the wilderness. One such tree perched near a boat landing crashed Sunday just as two firefighters pulled up to the shore. The tree destroyed their craft and sent them splashing into the lake. Neither was seriously hurt, Hanson said.
The fire was 35 percent contained Sunday, up from 26 percent on Friday, according to the fire center. Containment means that it is unlikely, but still possible, that the fire could spread, Hanson said.
Firefighters have cut back their use of three Bombardier CL-215 water tankers. On Sunday, only one plane dropped 17 loads of water at 1,400 gallons a drop. The planes were making up to a combined 200 drops a day at the height of the blaze, Hanson said.
Canadian officials, meanwhile, plan to fly today over an area of the Quetico Provincial Park, where smoke-spotters reported fresh blazes. It is not yet known whether they pose a threat of combining with the Alpine Lake fire already underway.
On Sunday, 18 campsites remained closed, but all BWCA entry points were open.
準備了一個多月，來到界限水域的那天，正好開始森林大火，而且是在我們出發的那個海鷗湖上。飛機在頭上飛了兩天，後來我們才走遠了。非常好玩的四天四夜（本來要玩六天五夜的，但受了點兒傷，提前出來了，相機也掉水裏不靈了）。回來一看新聞，大火還沒有滅。這裏先上幾張森林大火的照片。還有晚霞。
第一天：大火
第二天：救火的飛機
飛機從頭上飛過。不能說是在遠離人群的野外了。嗬嗬
晚霞
營地晚霞
晚霞
請留意【阿姍影記】，今日將有很多新照片。
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ON SEAGULL LAKE, Minn. (AP) --- The largest fire the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has seen in a decade was burning over 1,000 acres in far northeastern Minnesota on Thursday.
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http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5560054.html
Last update: August 15, 2005 at 7:20 AM
Firefighters to get close to BWCA blaze
Matt McKinney, Star Tribune
August 15, 2005
Firefighters battling a blaze in the northern Minnesota wilderness plan to work "on the black" today -- meaning at the edge of the fire -- for the first time since the flames erupted July 30.
The move signals the growing confidence among crews two weeks into their fight against a fire that has consumed more than 2 square miles of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA).
"Tomorrow they will get up close and personal," Dewey Hanson, a spokesman for the Minnesota Interagency Fire Center in Grand Rapids, Minn., said Sunday.
Firefighters may get some help from the weather today. Forecasters are calling for a 20 percent chance of rain, but they also are predicting that wind speeds may rise to 20 miles per hour.
Crews also will have to watch for the danger of falling trees, known as snags, as they work among the blackened areas of the wilderness. One such tree perched near a boat landing crashed Sunday just as two firefighters pulled up to the shore. The tree destroyed their craft and sent them splashing into the lake. Neither was seriously hurt, Hanson said.
The fire was 35 percent contained Sunday, up from 26 percent on Friday, according to the fire center. Containment means that it is unlikely, but still possible, that the fire could spread, Hanson said.
Firefighters have cut back their use of three Bombardier CL-215 water tankers. On Sunday, only one plane dropped 17 loads of water at 1,400 gallons a drop. The planes were making up to a combined 200 drops a day at the height of the blaze, Hanson said.
Canadian officials, meanwhile, plan to fly today over an area of the Quetico Provincial Park, where smoke-spotters reported fresh blazes. It is not yet known whether they pose a threat of combining with the Alpine Lake fire already underway.
On Sunday, 18 campsites remained closed, but all BWCA entry points were open.
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