North Newberry Fires - May, 2012

treetops wrote:

No roads close by, using air bombing water drops.

Oh by, but they are making headway on the rest of the fire?

8P.M. fire is down from the water bombers. This fire was 2 1/2 miles outside the fire zone.
Some punk from Chesaning Mich. got caught by a roving C.O. on East Branch Club, I assume just driving around next to the fire. Yeah

Are they alowing people into the EBS club?

8:30 A.M. wind out of the Northeast @ 3 MPH. Temp. is 45

1:30 P.M. wind out of the East @4 MPH. Water Bombers in action. Section 22 has a lot of trouble again today.

treetops wrote:

1:30 P.M. wind out of the East @4 MPH. Water Bombers in action. Section 22 has a lot of trouble again today.

Thanks Treetops. Appreciate you.
Keep up the good work.

Where is Duck Lake exactly?

Duck Lake is part of the Little Two Hearted Lakes, SE corner of Section 13. T48N R8W. They are 4 miles south of Pike Lake area. The actual fire started 2 miles south of Duck Lake near the Headwaters of the Widgeon Creek. Evidently Widgeon Creek Headwaters is not as romantic of a name for a fire.

TIMBER JACK - Chesbrough wrote:

Duck Lake is part of the Little Two Hearted Lakes, SE corner of Section 13. T48N R8W. They are 4 miles south of Pike Lake area. The actual fire started 2 miles south of Duck Lake near the Headwaters of the Widgeon Creek. Evidently Widgeon Creek Headwaters is not as romantic of a name for a fire.

OK Thanks!

6 P.M. report, heavy Helo working the southend. Has been a good rain since 3 P.M.

Where is section 22?

skidoochick49868 wrote:

Where is section 22?

South side of Pike Lake

On 9 & 10 news @ 7:P.M. On this Saturday, IF YOU LIVE IN THE PIKE LAKE ECT & NORTH, YOU WILL BE ALLOWED TO ENTER THE FIRE ZONE You must prove property ownership. Must sign in. You cannot use CO 500. I.E. must use Pine Stump route. Rain today is only 1/10 of a inch.

THE LATEST ESTIMATE FOR STRUCTURE IS 138 PROPERTIES WITHIN THE PREIMETER OF THE FIRE. A TOTAL OF 132 STRUCTURES HAVE BEEN LOST:
**46 HOMES/CABINS
**23 GARAGES
**35 SHED/OUTBUILDINGS
**26 CAMPERS
** 1 STORE
** 1 MOTEL

AND IT IS THIS WRITERS OPINION THAT LOSSES OF ABOUT LAND and TIMBER IS AT LEAST $ 20 million.

THE TAHQUAMENON FALLS STATE PARK WILL RE-OPEN TO VISITORS ON WEDNESDAY. THE UPPER AND LOWER FALLS VIEWING AREAS, AS WELL AS THE VISITORS CENTER WILL BE OPEN. THE LOWER FALLS CAMPGROUND IS SCHEDULED TO OPEN AT NOON. HOWEVER, THE HIKING TRAILS NORTH OF M-123 WILL REMAINED CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. THE TAHQUAMENON FALLS BREWERY & PUB IS ALSO OPEN WEDNESDAY.


The Duck Lake Fire team really needs to hear from people who have property located within the fire area (especially those property owners that may be out of state). U.P. residents call 211; all others call 800-338-1119. Please give your name, fire number and road, and contact info so we can provide updates as damage assessments are completed.(Folks who've already called and provided fire number and road name do NOT need to call again.)

May 30, 2012- 3:08 PM

By: Sudbury Staff
Thanks to favourable weather and ongoing firefighting efforts, the Ministry of Natural Resources said today the forest fire situation in Ontario has stabilized.

Crews continue to extinguish hotspots and build a strong line around the perimetre of the fires burning in the northeast.

With three new fire starts on May 29, there are 24 active fires in the region, burning some 120,000 acres of forest to date, making 2012 the busiest fire season in Ontario in decades. All but five are listed as under control.

The massive Timmins 9 is currently 100,000 acres in size, but is no longer moving toward the city. According to the city's website, it is the largest fire the northeast has seen in 50 years. A state of emergency was lifted by Timmins Mayor Tom Laughren earlier this week. Hwy 144 remains closed.

Meanwhile, Kirkland Lake 8 is 5700 acres in size and is now under control, the MNR reported. A combination of aggressive suppression by ground crews and recent rainfall resulted in fewer problem areas detected in infra-red scanning.

Due to the high to extreme fire hazard and increased forest fire activity, the restricted fire zone order remains in effect for the northeast. The order has been in place since May 16.

Although unsettled weather is in the forecast for the next several days, and an approaching front on Friday could bring cloud, rain and lightning, the MNR expects new fires, and fire behaviour, to remain limited.

More out-of-province firefighters were expected in Ontario by now, but the MNR has determined those additional resources will not be needed for now. Two Manitoba waterbombers were released May 29, and another two may be released May 30. There are currently 164 out of province personnel working in the province.

New fires in Ontario pose few control problems: MNR

June 01, 2012
By: Northern Life

After a string of quiet days, fire activity picked up again on May 30.

Thirteen new fires were confirmed in the province, all of them in the northeast region and almost all lightning-caused, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources. The starts were mostly small and posed few control problems.

Presently, there are 27 fires active in the province . FireRangers made excellent progress on all existing fires. Kirkland Lake fire 8 has now been declared under control.

The MNR is expecting today to paint a similar picture, with a reasonable number of new lightning fires appearing in the northeast.

After a lengthy period of rain, drying is now taking place in the northwest region and some human-caused fires could appear. Some resources will be returning to the northwest over the next few days in anticipation of the fire hazard increasing there.

The improving fire situation in Ontario has allowed some out-of-province resources to be released.

Four waterbombers from Manitoba returned home over the last two days. There are currently 164 out-of-province fire personnel working in Ontario, as well as two CL-415 waterbombers from Newfoundland.

Northeastern Ontario has stabilized due to favourable weather conditions and advances in fire suppression activities.

Though fire activity has slowed down, there is still a lot of hard work left on the ground for fire crews to extinguish remaining hot spots and build a strong line around the perimeter of the fires.

I had a friend tell me last weekend when up in Ontario that they had alot of problems with fire. We just don't hear about them here in Michigan.

So I printed a little news about them in the above 2 articles.

It's a dry spring for alot of landscape.

The Brewery and Pub is now open (Good Food) per treetops and a troll. The troll is good, he bought the meal.