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Thirty Mile Fire : ウィキペディア英語版 | Thirty Mile Fire
The Thirtymile Fire started as an escaped picnic cooking fire on July 9, 2001, in the Chewuch River canyon, approximately 30 miles north of the town of Winthrop, on the Okanogan National Forest in the state of Washington. On the evening of July 9, the Libby South Fire was already burning to the south, and this fire exceeded . To the north on the Thirtymile Fire, four firefighters were killed in the fire: Tom Craven, Karen FitzPatrick, Jessica Johnson, and Devin Weaver. ==Origins of the Fire== Those responsible for abandoning the campfire that started the fire were never found . High temperatures, low humidity, and severe drought conditions combined to allow an abandoned cooking fire to grow into a huge and fatal fire. 〔Malkin, Michelle. “Forest service blowing smoke over the deaths of firefighters.” Insight on the News 22 July 2002: 46. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 15 Oct. 2009.〕 The Thirtymile seemed at first to be a very controllable fire, and fire managers assigned a crew of 21 firefighters, estimating that the fire would be contained by nightfall. However, the temperature on the day of the blaze was nearing 100 degrees, and the fire was spreading fast. By mid-afternoon, the crew watched the fire crawl up the slope on the opposite side of the valley, and they called in for more help.〔Markels, Alex. “Cutting through smoke - As forest fires mount, one tragedy points to a system in trouble.” U.S. News and World Report 30 Aug. 2004: 28. NewsBank Access World News. Web. 16 Oct. 2009. .〕
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