irishfield Posted May 13, 2007 Report Share Posted May 13, 2007 Emergency officials advised hundreds of residents in northwestern Ontario to evacuate their cottages Saturday as a wildfire raged out of control in the region. The fire began at an unattended campsite across the border in Northern Minnesota several days ago...................... http://news.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/National/...howbyline=True# Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dano Posted May 13, 2007 Report Share Posted May 13, 2007 Yea, I called Kevin and he said so far we are still good to go......hope so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carp Posted May 13, 2007 Report Share Posted May 13, 2007 Heard about this one on the radio Wayne. I hope they put out the fire asap and no one gets hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjsa Posted May 13, 2007 Report Share Posted May 13, 2007 http://www.chroniclejournal.com/stories.php?id=43509 It is not contained by any means. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishfield Posted May 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2007 (edited) This will give you an idea of just how big of an area we're talking about Don't click if you're on dial up...its 3.1meg http://www.mnics.org/Incidents/Fire_1/perimeter_map.pdf and the Minnesota fire fighting website http://www.mnics.org/Incidents/fire_1.shtml Cost to date, just for fire fighting, in USA alone $4million at this point. Does not include homes/cabins lost already. Check out the picture gallery for some amazing pictures of the devistation. Edited May 13, 2007 by irishfield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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