Heil Harvesting, Ulysses KS/Limon CO | Both fires 4/3
http://www.kake.com/kansas/headlines/Grass_Fires_Spread_Across_KAKE...
These grass fires have gone from scary to really scary. This fire was about 10 miles from the shop as the crow flies in area with quite a bit of cultivation and irrigation. Story on the news at six said it was 2 miles wide by 12 miles long. Neighbor I talked to tonight said people are saying 10-15000 acres burnt. They evacuated the small town of Satanta. Two homes that were known to be occupied burned. I am sure that tomorrow morning we will know a lot more.
http://www.news9.com/story/14374815/wildfires-force-evacuations-in-...
I have no idea how big this fire was but it forced evacuations in Guymon OK (about 70 miles from the shop by road). Guymon is a good sized town, I am too lazy and it is too late to look but I would guess it to be at 25000 legar residents. Who knows how many illegal residents.
I am to the point I really don't care about the wheat crop. We need rain to reduce fire danger. As far as I know the cause of neither of these fires is known.
I will know tomorrow and will report then as I have been on the road since Friday morning and just got home. I will also give some wheat conditions going north in Kansas and throughout the Eastern Plains of Colorado over in crop talk. |
Hitting close to home: Fires
