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many as 100 there in' a 24hour period.”
According to Hakel, changing 40 mile-per-hour winds from every direction hampered fire fighting efforts on Tuesday night and Wednesday. “It was very hard to hold the fire at anything but natural barriers,” he maintained. “We had explosive fire conditions."
Hakel reported that a separate fire also broke out on Sunday on the opposite side of Old Rag near White Oak Canyon. The second fire, he said, was contained after burning only 30 acres. He attributed the success in controlling the blaze to the availability of water from a near-by stream. Hakel acknowledged that the second fire was also still burning as of Tuesday.
The Park's current approach with both fires is to keep them contained within the present fire lines, according to Hakel. He explained that dead, burned trees are being dropped along with soil spread at the fire line and 100 yards into the interior of the burning area. "But there’s little we can do in the interior." Hakel admitted. He said that falling
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