Fire on Blue Mountain!

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"A forest fire was sighted Monday night between the Lehigh River and the Blue Mountain Ski Area, about 15 miles north of Allentown, according to police radio reports.

The flames were reported as a brush fire at 7:40 p.m. An hour and a half later, a Northampton County emergency dispatch supervisor said the fire was not totally contained, but it was no longer out of control.

Witnesses to a "glow in the sky" initially were not sure if the fire was in Washington Township, Lehigh County; East Penn Township, Carbon County; or Lehigh Township, Northampton County.

But within minutes, emergency officials determined the fire was at the top of Blue Mountain in Lehigh Township.

Fire officials sent a small crew on an all-terrain vehicle to help pinpoint the fire, size it up and determine how far it was likely to spread. The mountain is fairly dry, and the night's light wind was from the northwest. The fire appeared to be moving east.

As the crew rode toward the forest fire, they found a campfire that appeared to have been abandoned in a hurry. The firefighters put out that fire and continued on. At 8:45 p.m., the crew reported that the fire appeared to be fueled more by grasses than by trees.

Emergency officials asked for more firefighters, prepared to hike deep into the woods. Several fire companies rushed to the scene, from all three counties in the area."

 

http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-blue-mountain-forest-fire-20120305,0,1001556.story

[AtomicSkier]

ruh roh...fire fighting in the middle of no where has got to be hard.

[RootDKJ]

I was involved in a 2000+ acre brush fire during my EMT days. Hiking around with Indian Packs on squirting anything smoking sucks.

[AngryHugo]

[Justo8484]

Edited March 6, 2012 by Justo8484

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