128 Cases of Child Abuse in 3 Months this Year in Utah; 42% of them Affecting Children Under Age 5. Now Wildfires. Wonder what the Connection is? Imperfections in Alaska Brought up too.

Intuitively, we, as in right-minded people, know and knew that this was going on.  Wildfires raging uncontrolled and almost crazy.  Is it a sign that something else is going on not too far way from where the fires are taking place?  Probably so; even if the fires are not a 'punishment from above' directly, it may be a 'sign from above' that there are geographical regions that need attention for help.

For larger view click on map

They need help, guidance, assistance, and motivation for more upright behavior.

Added July 11, 2012: What is 'child abuse'?  These are actions, or lack of actions, that occur to children, that can take the form of physical harm such as punching, or neglect, such as not feeding the child, leaving the child isolated and alone for extended time frames, endangering the child, physically, emotionally, psychologically, amongst a host of others definitions.

Here are some excerpts on what is going on in Utah right now, below that is/will be some discussion on Alaska and what they are confronted with, encapsulated, as nice a natural surrounding Alaska may be with lakes, animals, crisp air when there are no wildfires, not everybody there is perfect, there has been an unusually high incidence of attacks of the nature that are described as acts that usually involve consent.


Story from Utah, it only took a couple of seconds to find, because, it was clear that something was going on, even know the writer of this blog post is all the way on the other side of the country in Washington DC; and, articles about child neglect a few years back in Utah, where children were being dropped off in shelters started making appearances; story from Utah:

"Davis [County in Utah] may top 2011 child abuse cases well before 2012 is out

...the number of child abuse cases opened at the Davis County Children’s Justice Center on pace to shatter the total case count for 2011.

From January through March of this year, 128 [...] child abuse cases have been opened at the CJC in Farmington, said Susan Burton, the center’s development coordinator.
During 2011, a total of 364 cases were reported to the CJC, she said.

Should the current case trend hold, the 2011 case total could be topped before the end of the third quarter of this year, Burton said.

[...] Davis County Commissioner Louenda Downs said officials know the number of reported abuse cases in the county is high.
“We hope that (the numbers) are high because we are aggressively uncovering it,” Downs said of child abuse.

“It’s awful,” she said of state numbers that reveal a child is abused or neglected here every 38 minutes.
Based on 2011 statistics, 42 percent of victims are 5 years old or younger.
The reported abuse cases are even more concerning based on the number of state offenders already serving prison sentences for child abuse.
One-third of all Utah inmates [... are offenders of the type that include some of the crimes committed against the children], Burton said, ranking the state the highest in the nation in that category."
[Thu, 04/05/2012 - 8:04pm]
see complete article: http://www.standard.net/stories/2012/04/05/davis-may-top-2011-child-abuse-cases-well-2012-out

It is possible, that this article could be hyped up some more by stating just how far away from the wildfires that in or were in Utah this year, are, from the location of Davis County; but, most readers will probably agree, it doesn't matter.  Colorado is suffering from wildfires that are cropping up that were not there 2 weeks ago, and Alaska had about a dozen new fires that got started over the course of last weekend.  The point is, it is close enough.  Closeness to the one that provides us with 'signs from above', is not what the statistics discussed here pertinent crimes in Utah.

Concern also are unreported crimes, and border-line cases, cases severe enough to abuse or slightly abuse the child, leaving the child harmed for life, if not physically, then psychologically or emotionally, which might not make it to child abuse protection centers.

Alaska


Unfortunately, all articles that were found that dealt with crimes in Alaska in the context, mentioned or had themes that dealt with matters that are not really intended for the ETIS International consortium/group of websites; therefore, they are being removed.  The message is the same, we got the news out, now that it is out, the information does not have the dignity to remain on the sites.


At closer inspection, the articles in some regard should have never been placed on this blog in the first place; at the moment they presented themselves, they appeared to be a pressing concern; in the future, if something like that what occurred in Alaska occurs again, we will find another way to go about it.


If you want the stories, e-mail etis@post.com, and we will send the reports of the attacks about rural and urban Alaska behavior, pay for transportation services driver arrest, and bad reputation, 'here is what the UK has/had to say, [by the way, other countries and nations are looking at us]', directly to your e-mail box, for research, usage for news, education, and along those lines only. 


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ARSON CAUSING WILDFIRES 2012 ? :In the Realm of Possibility

There are some big wildfires raging right now which are reported to be human caused or started in areas that were not pure forest elements.

These days, you are probably not going to find someone outright overtly committing an act of arson.

Also and important, the concept of fires merging, or the 'whoosh' effect of several fires coming together as one big fire alluded to in the previous post, see "military property in jeopardy...", is REAL; as one of the excerpts below shows as has already happened.

Here are quotes from within this week from Fairbanks [Alaska] Daily News at newsminer.com cut/copied/pasted from with font color changes added for easy readability:

"Seventeen [17] new fires were reported Sunday, 13 of as a result of lightning strikes that occurred Saturday and one of the fires, the 9,000-acre Bear Creek Fire, was burning only a few miles west of the Parks Highway between Nenana and Healy.

More than 100 firefighters were battling the blaze, which started as three different fires on Saturday but merged into one on Sunday, public information officer Jim Schwarber with the state Division of Forestry said.

The fire is burning west of the Parks Highway near 269 Mile and was being driven north by wind. The fire was volatile enough that fire officials encouraged residents in a small subdivision not far off the road to voluntarily evacuate Sunday, Schwarber said.

[...]Two of the three fires that merged were caused by lightning while the biggest was human caused. The fire had grown by about 7,500 acres since Saturday morning.

[...]North of Fairbanks, meanwhile, more than 200 firefighters continued to battle a 2,600-acre near the Koyukuk River village of Allakaket that escaped from the village dump on Wednesday and spread quickly before firefighters could respond.

[June 24, 2012 <http://www.newsminer.com/view/full_story/19093034/article-Lightning-starts-wildfires-near-Nenana?>]

Read more: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Lightning starts wildfires near Nenana

'The fire, which started Wednesday in the town dump and quickly spread to surrounding wildlands, was still moving northeast away from the Bush village of approximately 100 people on the south bank of the Koyukuk River, 190 miles northwest of Fairbanks.

At its closest point, the fire came within a half mile of homes at the village’s new town site, but east winds kept it from coming closer. Firefighters, with the help of water-scooping aircraft, were able to make “significant progress” on the north flank closest to the village on Thursday, according to an Alaska Fire Service report.

The fire had grown by about 60 acres since Thursday. It was estimated at 2,558 acres."

[June 23, 2012]  Read more: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Wildfire grows near Allakaket

U.S. Military Property in Jeopardy in Colorado. Keep Waiting Until the Last Minute, and Are You are Not Going to Be Happy Until U.S. Bases Effected by Wildfire.

Wildfires in Colorado have become a presence to the point that 2 things are happening:

• New wildfires are springing up
• The wildfires that are already up, are raging almost out of control and spreading

Reports of fires over 1000 degrees.


Reports of fires over 1000 degrees, what happens when the heat emanated by two or more separate fires causes all the fires to 'whoosh' converge in a second, and be all one big fire, and everything that was between it is fire as well?


Serious and effective strategies need impact as soon as possible.


Trying to calculate, what is going to happen next, and allow a certain amount of damage to occur based on those calculations, might not be the smartest thing to do; the real calculations based on knowledges from thousands of years ago that have been 'lost', or from knowledge that will become more clearly understood a thousand years in the future, might be in play here.  There is no time to play around with what you are dealing with out there in Colorado.


One military property, stadium, already has huge clouds of smoke and fire looming over it.

Alaska Wildfires. Lightning Rods Might Be A Solution. Over 20 Fires Raging in Alaska Mainland Right Now.

Right now, 18th of June 2012, there are about 30 fires ranging in different sizes throughout the state of Alaska.

Reports are, all but one of them were started by lightning.

Question lies precluding making big investments into lightning rods, which is do they REALLY work, usually meaning, basing the answer to this question off of scientific experiments that used a control group as the method to determining whether or not they are proven to work; since the science experiments never proved they work, the idea of making heavy investments was tossed out.

Howbeit, lightning rods in places that have a history of common occurrences of lightning, also have a history of significantly reduced, if not altogether done away with lightning damage.

What it seems like Alaska needs, are some lightning rods around Fairbanks, Alaska, that are taller than the trees.  Fairbanks had 3 fires started in a 3 day period earlier last week.

2 or 3 of the roughly 30 fires raging this month have been described and documented as a 'wildfire' by NIFC.  These are larger ones.  Smaller fires are still blazing.  20 or 30 fires all raging at the same time, although smaller in area per each, when added together, still account for combined square miles that are huge.  Literally, about a third to a half of Alaska as we speak is up in flames.

Fairbanks is toward the very middle of the big portion of the state of Alaska.

Many acres that are the victim of fire have black spruce {tree}.

This the scene, using a 2010 picture, of fire racing through black spruce trees in Alaska, obviously there is not much room to play in there at all:

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[picture courtesy httpmalg...tag=wildfire]

What kind of fire do you get when you combine lighting, in the Alaska region, with black spruce in Alaska, plus the other elements, such as air, climate?

Basically, lightning rods are supposed to work by a mechanism whereas the lightning seeks the rod, instead of something else, like your property, and then the electric charge of the lightning makes its way down the pole and discharges in the ground.

Fire names in Alaska as of June 2012:

• Kokrines Hills
• Nekakte
• Little Indian River
• Koguluktuk River
• Stink Creek
• Mentanontli River
• Deadwood Creek [mix of live fire and smoldering]

The list above is only some of the fires, they might be largest, and really fires, that are being tended to by firefighting.

Black spruce, does not mean that the whole tree, or the log part of the tree is actually black in color.

The tree is reminiscent of the fern tree.

Just because it can get cold in Alaska, does not mean that fire cannot exist in large volume out in the wilderness resulting from forces of nature.

A May 2012 newsminer.com, Fairbanks online paper article says fires can lead to smoke which leads to visibility of less than a quarter or a fourth of a mile, and prompting air quality warnings warnings.
The article also says, 6.6 million acres burned in Alaska fires in 2004,
last year in 2011, 515 fires burned 293,018 acres, the 3rd lowest annual total in the last decade; that about 20 miles long and 20 miles wide, if you were to heap all the fires together;
normally, about 1 million acres is covered by fire each year, mostly in interior of the state, that means the big part of Alaska and not the shoreline or the 'stretch of little bitty islands'.

1 million acres is about 1562.5 miles squared.  This is about 39 and a half miles long, and 39.5 miles wide.

Reference 2004, 6.6 million acres is over 10,156.25 square miles, which is about 100 miles long by the same wide.

To give you an idea of what the fires burning in Alaska right now look like, this might be almost a microcosm of the situation, the photo below, way out rural areas, low lying fire fueled not only by spruce trees, but also by tundra.  Comparatively barely any civilization directly where the fire is, does not mean that the fires should just be ignored,; there are a number of reasons while all fires should be put under control, and under guidance of those knowledgeable.

The photo is of the Kokrines Hill fire taken about 11 days ago, estimated at around 200 miles west of Fairbanks, paralleling the Yukon River.  These and other photos can be found at Alaska channel 2 news, website page http://www.ktuu.com/features/alaska-wildfires-20120607,0,1822233.photogallery

Synopsis/encapsulated fire situation in Alaska, other statistics: of fire related fatalities in the last 3 to 5 years, strikingly, only about 2% of them have been due to outside fires, meaning wildfire/tundra fire/trees out in wildlife/of that nature or maximum of about 1 or 2 people a year according to recent DPS reports, rather the 20 to 30 people that deceased per year were victims of more urban type catastrophes, structural fires, and of the 20 to 30 people, ALCOHOL / DRUGS was a contributing to over 40% of them, over a third of the 40 or so injuries a year take place on the weekend.   About 16% of fires that get started in houses, start in the kitchen.  The cross-sectional group that is hit the hardest as far as fire related fatalities in Alaska is the 20-29 year old age group, on Saturdays.  This information is based on a report, 'Fire in Alaska, 2010, DPS'.

Obama Versus Romney: What is the Difference in the Shape the Country is Going to Be In?

What is the future of the United States respective to the Presidency, and what will the next presidential term bring everyone, for those years, and the impact it is going to have beyond them? 


If Barack Obama serves another four years, will those 4 years be almost the same as the 4 years we have just been through?  There is a chunk of the future if things turn out that way, that are inevitable that they will stay the same.  The reason why:  Barack Obama will still be Barack Obama.


Interesting question:  has the bright lights of the Vice President, Joseph Biden, been suppressed too far into the background?


If in the next 4 years Biden is Vice President again serving all 4 years, and, he is little bit more to the forefront when it comes to interfacing  on most popular topics covered, will there be the possibility of a firmer, strengthened more solid solutions to the problems that get posed?  The answer probably has the consensus yes.  When actively involved, as he has shown us, on the projections he has been designated to handle, effective work is made.


The challenges the country is facing, will a change of President automatically mean that there will be changes to solutions to the challenges, that, as in the solutions, are all golden, all win win, which is a notion that can get into at least a part of many minds, especially after campaign hype?


What will Mitt Romney bring, for certain, to be distinguished from what is said in campaign trail-blazing, and if the reality of what is brought for the better turns out to be one in the same with what was said while campaigning, then so be it-- will he, if voted President, bring changes that will decisively alter the status and condition of aspects of the U.S. and affairs, that many citizens feel need to be better?


What is the future of the USA, for the next four years?
When we come up on the middle of the 4 year term, and start making assessments and gauging mid-term performance, 2014, what is it, as in, what will have turned out to be the future, no matter who is President, are we going to see?


Are there some candidates that can really shake things up for the better that we have yet to see?
Are there some candidates that might take things for a dismal ride far, far more dismal than whatever disappointments this country has witnessed ever before, that are neither Obama or Romney?


Without going into detail, or writing a scholastic paper with hundreds of references, let's get the big concerns on the table.


Afterward: Reminder, what are the big problems and concerns most American citizens are concerned about or feel are not at the par they would like them to be?  The answer is primarily, the economy, healthcare, domestic abuse.  We congratulate and applaud Obama for making legislative progress for the purpose of reducing and abating domestic violence and child abuse.  Now Americans, the citizens that live in all those millions of houses across the country, must ask themselves, did they do what they were supposed to do, in doing their part as a citizen, to refrain and discipline themselves where appropriate, and facilitate care of children, and the elderly, referencing neglect of the elderly, did they take the extra yards that were within their power, means, and capacity?

Georgia Wildfires in June 2012: Where Are They? Answers are in this Blog Post. Big Concern is Wildfires in Georgia that Took Place this Time Last Year in June 2011.

Outside of Georgia, the wildfires are hard to find information about, it can seem, using sources such as the internet, unless you know exactly where to look.  ABC [News] [June 12, 2012 or thereabout] says Georgia is one of the states that heads the list of states that are being ravaged by wildfire currently.


More accuracy of a description of the situation is there have been, or there are brushfires in  quantities, currently burning or were burning , but the size of these fires is minimum compared to for instance the current High Park, Colorado, that tries to stick his chest out.


{Satellite photos, and media coverage snapshots of fires that you see on image search results on the internet/online for wildfires fires in Georgia, are mostly photos from 2011.  Even if you enter 2012 in the search term, the computer is going to generate Georgia wildfires, combined with other information in 2012 that might not have anything to do with wildfires in 2012; so please be cautioned about this, and look closely at your query results if you are studying or researching the wildfire topic}

Important concern, is that there were dangerous wildfires that occurred this time last year in June 2011.  Lessons and knowledge having been learned, to prevent, mitigate, and find solutions, moreover, because nature has a way of presenting new tests and challenges, firefighting and emergency responders are preparing for the worse.


Here is a list of big fires in that occurred in Georgia in 2011:
2011 fire impact
Facts from the 2011 fire season in Southeast Georgia:
Total acres burned in the Satilla District: 411,708

• Honey Prairie Fire: 310,000 acres
• All others: 101,708 acres
• Some of the larger fires were:
• Race Pond Fire: 21,000 acres, Brantley, Charlton and Ware counties
• Sweat Farm Again Fire: 19,000 acres, Ware County
• Sessoms Fire: 20,597 acres, Ware and Bacon counties
• Elim Church Fire: 4,035 acres, Long County
• Arabia Bay: 2,710 acres, Clinch County
• Crews Road Fire: 2,224 acres, Brantley County
• Mosley Road Fire: 1,418 acres, Coffee County
• Waverly Fire: 1,200 acres, Camden County

Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2012-02-04/story/southeast-georgia-fire-season-could-be-repeat-2011#ixzz1xnfTnB1r

Now what has occurred earlier this year in Georgia is, cut copied and pasted, with color effects added, from the story 'Threat Of Wildfires Soars In Georgia
April 11, 2012 12:12 PM;'


ATLANTA (AP/WAOK) –  Forecasters warn the threat of wildfires is high across much of Georgia, and any fires that develop will likely spread rapidly.
The National Weather Service issued a red flag warning for high fire danger from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday.


The warning covers north and central Georgia, where winds are expected to gust up to 25 mph. Forecasters say humidity will be low, helping to create potentially dangerous fire conditions.
In metro Atlanta, brush fires poured smoke on interstates on Tuesday, [April 2012] causing poor visibility. Firefighters in DeKalb County battled blazes along I-20 and I-285.
[end of AP/WAOK story]


Practical information useful in understanding Georgia and wildfires 2012 and 2011:


Size of Wildfire
The Honey Prairie Fire: 310,000 acres, means that about 484 square miles burnt; now that means, if you were to draw a box around the fire, one side of each box is about 22 miles.  The fire was about 22 miles long and 22 miles wide.  


The size of the Honey Prairie Fire is a little bit more than TWICE the size of the High Park fire going on in Colorado right now.  


Another way of looking at it, is the High Park fire, near Fort Collins, CO, is about half the size of the Honey Prairie Fire.


Rarely is a fire in the exact shape of a box; the box illustration is to give an idea of what it is or was there to be contended with.


Size of the fire or wildfire is not everything, when determining whether or not it is a priority to fight, contain, and bring under control.  A fire small in acreage or number of feet squared area, such as an office building, can be a priority, if there are 10s of thousands, 10,000 people in there.


What Summer Weather Does
Summer weather in Georgia making it a hotbed for fires, is also because:

“When the sap starts rising, the soil gets drier and drier,” as the formerly dormant trees start pulling in water, said [...] interim district manager at the Georgia Forestry Commission’s Satilla District office near Waycross that covers 17 counties in Southeast Georgia." The quote here is from: '

Southeast Georgia fire season could be repeat of 2011

Lightning and wind could lead to repeat of perilous 2011.

Posted: February 4, 2012 - 8:57pm  |  Updated: February 6, 2012 - 8:34am'

Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2012-02-04/story/southeast-georgia-fire-season-could-be-repeat-2011#ixzz1xnr9I2b6

Vegetation, New Plants, Wind, Downed Trees from Tornadoes, are Faciltators of Fire
From: 'More Wildfires Expected In 2012 [Wed., February 8, 2012 4:07pm (EST)]'
[...] the Georgia Forestry Commission says, trees downed in last year's North Georgia tornadoes also could present a fire hazard.

The Honey Prairie Fire in the Okefenokee Swamp last year burned over 300,000 acres and cost over $52 million.

The fire is currently dormant.
 
"Because of the unusually warm temperatures, we feel like the vegetation has continuously grown and added more fuel to wild-land fires."

But the Georgia Forestry Commission's Frank Sorrells says, new plants could be a problem.

WILDFIRES East to West Sweep & Roundup. Update for June 13, 2012

There are about 20 to 25 wildfires currently raging big enough to gain either media attention or the radar screen of NIFC, the Interagency Fire center.

Looking at the continental United States, first, starting in the east, which is Washington DC, and looking westward:
{Updated 6/15/2012: Serious concern and consideration for PREPAREDNESS is}Georgia, there is [updated June 15, 2012] the threat of wildfires there.  This is based off what occurred this time in June last year 2011, where over 400,000 acres were torched due to fires of different kinds, about 3 quarters of that, the land that was burnt was the Honey Prairie fire on the  Okefenokee Swamp . a wildfire there.  In the past few months, there have been brushfires in Georgia, but these fires are not of the magnitude to be placed up in the level of severity or threat warning escalation with the larger wildfires that are going on such as in High Park, Co-/Little Bear, NM.

The two biggest wildfires going on right now are the High Park, Colorado fire, and Little Bear, New Mexico fire.

High Park, Colorado fire, which is in the northernmost part of the state, namely Larimer County, and sits the first county in the center of the state of Colorado right below the Wyoming border.  The fire, if 60,000 acres, is about 10miles long and 10 miles wide.  Although it is only a few miles compared to the entire land mass of, Colorado or Wyoming, the concern is the 10 miles long and wide, or 100 square miles, is straight fire, nothing but fire, which if not contained and controlled, could expand very quickly, has extreme heat, and could have ramifications that include chemicals mixes in the air that are very dangerous.  There is a mountainous range there with fern trees on it, the trees appearing to be the majority of the fire fuel.  The area of the fire is about double what it was on Saturday when it is said by media to have started.  There are about 12 aerial vehicles working on it.  Some fire manager say they have enough of what they need in terms of access to getting what they need.  Complete containment, albeit, still has not been reached according to recent reports, as of today 5pm EST June 13, 2012.

Directly below the High Park fire in Colorado, on the exact same longitude line, 105, there is a fire in new Mexico, namely 'Little Bear', which has been raging longer than the High Park fire.

Working from east to west on the continental U.S., after the Georgia fire, [updated 6/152012 up there as the first stop] there is a fire in the northern part of  Michigan.  The pictures of the fire show that the fire itself, is very violent.  Michigan can be deceptive to the eyes in terms of what geographic land masses constitute the state.  there is the large part that looks like a bear claw, then, there is another area north of it separated by water that looks like, or shaped similar to a T-bone steak.  At the northern central part of this T-bone steak shape, is where the Duck Lake fire is, which is just north of Newberry, Michigan.  Duck Lake is northeast of Chicago, Illinois.  Duck Lake, when talking about the fire, is a land mass, not the lake; it is not a fire on a lake, such as fire if there was a gas or oil spill on the surface of the water that ignited.  Be cautioned that there is another Duck Lake in the southern region of Michigan, which is NOT the location of the Duck Lake fire.  Duck Lake fire is the name given to the fire which emergency responders all know what is being referred to; there are other names of this area that are suffering from the fire, such as the Lake Superior shoreline.  The top edge of the T-bone shape land mass part of Michigan is bordered with the southern parts of the waters of lake Superior, on of the 'Great Lakes'.

The next stop, moving west from Michigan, drop down to the middle of the country, the Heartland, and there is a fire right in the middle of Kansas.  Information on internet is harder to come by for this fire.  The fire is named Sylvan fire. The location of the fire is just northwest of Wichita, Kansas, it is north of Hutchison, and west of Salina, probably the closest town to the fire, which is Ellsworth, the fire is just miles east.  Again, be careful about matching name with places, as there is another place named Sylvan, [Sylvan Grove], which is in the eastern part of Kansas; that is not where the fire is.  The level of containment of the fire, is not found on many national media websites.

After the Sylvan fire, what is arguably the closest 2 fires from it, are both the High park in Colorado, and the Little Bear in New Mexico, which are about equidistant from Kansas, meaning about the same distance away; only thing is, the High Park fire, in Colorado, is obviously more northern in geographic location, and New Mexico, known for its warmer climate, in the southern part of the U.S., or toward it, further, the Little Bear fire is in the southern part of New Mexico.  Additional information about these geographic locations, is, Colorado is a large state, and although known for cold winters and dry air, is not exempt from dry climate that facilitates fires.  These 2 fires, are the only 2 coded the same according to the report of NIRC June 12, 2012, in terms of how they are being treated by firefighting.  Basically, these are the big 2, and of very serious concern, threatening, and very dangerous.

Just above Colorado, and the High Park fire, there are 2 fires burning not too far from each other in Wyoming, in the southeastern part of the state.

Dropping back down to Colorado, there is another fire at the very southern border, the 'Little Sand' fire.  The location is about 1 quarter of the way from the very southwestern corner of the state.

Back in New Mexico, which is the state directly south of Colorado, there are several fires burning scattered throughout the state.

Directly left, moving westward from New Mexico, is Arizona, clearly in the southwest.  They have several fires burning throughout the state, in different areas.  There are ones big enough to be listed, and there seem to be smaller ones, although no less dangerous in their ingredients, that might get put out in a day or so, which might not make the list.  Fire '257' toward the center of Arizona seems to be ranked the biggest and most dangerous, while the Gladiator fire, a few miles to the west of that one, and a little more north, still toward the center of the geographic region of the state, received much coverage about 3 weeks ago, and appears to be winding down, getting closer to 100% containment.

Directly north of Arizona, and west of Colorado, is Utah, which has a cluster of several fires burning toward the south central part of the state.

Nevada, west of Utah, is dealing with fires; 'Copper Mountain' fire, looks to be on the border shared with Utah and Nevada, toward the very north of both these states. The is another ['Barnes' fire], that looks almost  to be a duplicate situation of the Copper Mountain fire, on the border of these 2 states, only difference in location, is that it is toward the very south of these 2 states.

California has 1 fire right in the very middle of the state, 'George' fire. According to the 'incident report' on June 9, 2012, which was 4 days ago, the fire started on the 1st of June, 2012, about 2 weeks ago; the fire is about 70% contained; not a lot of structural damage; the fire effects mainly Sequoia National Forest, Freeman Creek Giant Sequoia Grove, and  Giant Sequoia National Monument; about 1800 acres have burned.
The report is at:
http://www.inciweb.org/incident/article/2885/14151/
For a practical or better idea of the size of the fire,1800 acres is just under 3 square miles, [2.81 to be closer] which means, if the fire was in the shape of a box, on side of the box is the square root of 3, which is about 1.73 miles, or about between 1 and a half miles and 1 and three quarters of a mile, on each side of the box; more precise is 1.68 miles, which is about 1 and 2 thirds of a mile,  on each side.  The fire is east of Fresno, California near the main highway artery running north of Sequoia National Forest.  Mount Whitney and Ovens Lake is right around and to the north of the fire, and to the south of the fire is Owens Lake.
Just as the name implies, the fire there is adjacent the mountainous region of California.

COLORADO HIGH PARK FIRE UPDATE JUNE 13, 2012. Sky and land form there is EXTREMELY very dangerous situation. URGENT. 1+1='2a'

Location: Larimer County, Colorado; northwest of Fort Collins; southeast of Walden; Roosevelt National Forest; Red Feather Lakes; west of Livermore

June 13, 2012 update

Double the amount of acreage effected by the fire since Saturday; status at 9:30am EST June 13, 2012

Over 100 buildings destroyed

Residents have had to leave their houses, and evacuations appear to be continuing

The trend of the geagraphical spread of the fire, is it is expanding in area, like a circle becoming larger and larger

click for enlarged view

The diagram below shows how close schools are to the fire

click for larger view

Problem that is being gravitated toward:
formations in the ground, are merging with formations in the sky
what kind of formations are these, and why are they here?:
one of the answers is, pertinent subtleties in ground formations, are previous storms and catastrophes over the years, such as flooding and hurricanes, when synthesized or run and compressed together, form a whole, an altogether effect.  There centralized as seen from the bird's eye view, is the geographic formations that sit directly beneath the location of the High Park fire.

the same situation may hold true in different dimensions of the Little Bear fire in new Mexico, where the formation that shows in the ground looks more menacing.  The photos shown by media of conditions in the sky caused by the fire, do not look as severe as those over High park.

Whether conditions at and over Little Bear, New Mexico are attempting to merge with conditions at and above High park, is yet to see.

Part of why containment is necessary, is that chemicals released from 2 or 3 separate geographic areas from 2 or 3 or more separate fires corresponding to each, when combined together, could result in chemical mixes that are deadly, and we are not ready to defend.

How to repair:  if the geographic formations are linked to processes which lead to hurricanes and flooding, then obviously what leads to flooding and hurricanes must be stopped.

It so happens that the area adjacent immediate northwest of Fort Collins area of Colorado is one of the places where the geographic formation spoken about above, wound up, and the area is taking the brunt of the wildfire catastrophe.

The straightforward things you need to know:

• the wildfire is bad enough.  call this number 1a
• what has been appearing in the skies above it, is bad; whether it is the result of the fire, or only looks like it is the result of the fire; call this 1b

• the math is simple, 1 + 1 = 2

• When 1a and 1b are combined together, you will get this '2'.

• Whatever '2' is in this case, call it '2a', nobody wants this combination.

It might be recommendation, amongst many, to go ahead, get the fire under control. Now.

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WILDFIRES :Exact Locations, Maps, Practical Details ==Project. About Fires Currently Raging

Undertaking in progress is to provide maps and practical details pertinent the wildfires grouped in the previous blog post.
Graphics, mostly modified* from original maps and satellites will be uploaded as they are readied.
*modified means original map has been copied as exactly, with notes and additional graphics placed on top; some portions of maps may have been chopped for the sake of space which are clearly indicated



Wildfires by state
Report date 6/11/2012 with exception to one fire, referenced by NIRC
Organized by largest number of wildfires per state


Arizona
          latitude,longitude,fire name,fire_number,area, details   

• 35.436,-109.540,WIDE RUINS 2,AZ-NAA-074,578   
• 34.215,-112.338,GLADIATOR,AZ-PNF-120266,16240, front page news in the middle of May 2012; locations nearby include, town of Crown King, Battle Flat, Turkey Creek, see Frame set 3 further below on this blog post for recent bulletin 
• 31.783,-111.609,MONTEZUMA,AZ-PPA-000334,1700
• 33.249,-111.086,257,AZ-TNF-075,3157

Utah
          latitude,longitude,fire name,fire_number,area, details

• 38.231,-111.506,LOST LAKE,UT-FIF-000082,2075   
• 38.459,-112.061,BOX CREEK,UT-FIF-000083,2018   
• 37.976,-111.563,LAKE CREEK,UT-DIF-120178,1200, report_date 06/10/2012
• 41.197,-113.965,COPPER MOUNTAIN,UT-SLD-000240,680

New Mexico
          latitude,longitude,fire name,fire_number,area, details

• 33.419,-105.830,LITTLE BEAR,NM-LNF-007,34651, southern region of the state
• 33.345,-108.710,WHITEWATER-BALDY,NM-GNF-000143,278708,06/11/2012
• 35.664,-106.561,BEAR SPRINGS,NM-SNF-000112,622,06/11/2012

Nevada
          latitude,longitude,fire name,fire_number,area, details 

• 40.404,-118.276,ROCKY CANYON,NV-WID-20092,371   
• 37.518,-114.434,BARNES,NV-ELD-40055,357

Wyoming
          latitude,longitude,fire name,fire_number,area, details 

• 42.298,-104.783,GUERNSEY STATE PARK,WY-HPD-012078,2500   
• 42.191,-105.376,COW CAMP,WY-MBF-012069,8492   

Colorado
          latitude,longitude,fire name,fire_number,area, details 

• 37.403,-107.243,LITTLE SAND,CO-SJF-00133,8478   
• 40.589,-105.404,HIGH PARK,CO-LRX-329,41140, northern area of the state near north border, mountainous region   

Alaska
          latitude,longitude,fire name,fire_number,area, details 

• 67.339,-158.566,NEKAKTE,AK-GAD-000184,6357, northwestern area of majority of Alaska land mass   
• 67.067,-156.383,KOGOLUKTUK RIVER,AK-GAD-000182,1600,  northwestern area of majority of Alaska land mass

Kansas
          latitude,longitude,fire name,fire_number,area, details 

• 38.885, -98.382,SYLVAN,KS-KSX-499,2000   

Idaho
          latitude,longitude,fire name,fire_number,area, details 

• 43.348,-116.414,KAVE,ID-BOD-000226,560,06/10/2012

California
          latitude,longitude,fire name,fire_number,area, details 

• 36.149,-118.505,GEORGE,CA-SQF-1384,1707, central California      

Michigan
          latitude,longitude,fire name,fire_number,area, details 

• 46.533, -85.424,DUCK LAKE,MI-MIS-1248007,21069, located in Calhoun, Michigan*, the northern part of the state.  *There is another Duck Lake that is not subjected to a large wildfire, in the southern central area of Michigan, not too far from the Indiana, and Ohio borders

List composed June 12, 2012.  Information provided by NIRC with exception to details, county lookup, and arrangement.


In order to read the notes on the diagram and see the graphics more clearly, either click the diagram enclosed in the red border, or right click and select open in new window; the original size, enlarged should appear in the new window.


Frame set 1/ Little Bear, New Mexico fire:

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Frame set 2/: Duck Lake, [Calhoun,] Michigan fire:

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Frame set 3:/ Gladiator fire in Arizona


The following content has been cut/copied/pasted from http://inciweb.org/incident/article/2864/14138/ with parts highlighted, text color and font changes, and parts omitted.  Important note, the status of the following reflects June 8th, 2012, and is not current as of June 13, 2012.

Gladiator Fire - June 8, 2012
Incident: Gladiator Wildfire
Released: 5 days ago

Gladiator Fire

June 8, 2012
Size: Approximately 16,240 acres
Containment: 90%
Cause: Human caused; originated from a structure fire on private property
Cost: $14 million
Terrain: Steep, rugged, brushy with very difficult access
Resources: 4 Engines
Total no. of personnel: 21 personnel Injuries to date: 8 Structures destroyed: 6

NOTE: The Next Release Will Be On Wednesday, June 13

Insignificant fire behavior has been observed all week. Crews are still finding and extinguishing smoldering fuels in the interior as they continue to mop-up. Fire personnel will continue to patrol and monitor the perimeter this weekend for hot-spots and hazardous trees damaged by the fire.

Current Fire Restrictions for the Prescott NF

The following fire restrictions will go into effect Friday, June 8, 2012, at 8:00 am for the entire Prescott National Forest:

- The use of campfires, charcoal grills, and stove fires (wood, charcoal, and coal burning) are prohibited on all Prescott National Forest lands. This now includes developed campsites and campgrounds.

• - Use of explosives is prohibited.
• - Smoking is prohibited, except within an enclosed vehicle or building.
• - Operating a chainsaw, or other equipment powered by an internal combustion engine, is prohibited between the hours of 9:00 am to 8:00 pm. During acceptable hours, please have 5-10 ft. clearance around your generators and other internal combustible engines.
• - Welding or operating acetylene or other torch with open flame is prohibited.
• - Discharging a firearm, air rifle, or gas gun is prohibited except while engaged in a lawful hunt

The use of petroleum-fueled stoves, lanterns or heating devices is allowed, providing such devices meet the fire underwriter's specifications for safety.
The public is reminded that fireworks and operating or using any internal or external combustion engine without a spark arresting device properly installed, maintained, and in effective working are always prohibited on all national forest lands.
A Yavapai County fire ban is in effect across all fire ban zones. For AZ Fire Info & Restrictions Information call 1-877-864-6985 or visit http://wildlandfire.az.gov/.
The public can obtain fire information via the following:

• Prescott National Forest Fire Information Hotline: 928-777-5799 (recorded message)
• Gladiator Fire Incident Website: http://www.inciweb.org/ or www.fs.fed.us/r3/prescott

Wildfires Raging on June 11, 2012. Year-round 'Wildfire Season', then Season within the Season

June 12, 2012:  The closer number of large wildfires is 23.

Apparently there are about 18 wildfires There are about 23 wildfires currently raging in different part of the United States.
Wildfires means large fires covering square miles [or acres] at a time.
Big ones are:

• Larimer, Colorado [northernmost part of Colorado].  The High Park Fire.
• New, Mexico [southernmost part of the state], in/around/near mountain region of Ruidoso, and Sierra Blanca mountain range

A more accurate regional and specific wildfire location and distribution map is directly below:

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According to ABC News [June 11, 2012], six states have been impacted heavily by wildfires, the 6 states suffering from fires that seem to head the list in the order [refer http://abcnews.go.com/US/wildfires...] they have it, are:

• Arizona
• Texas 
• California 
• New Mexico
• Colorado
• Georgia

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Season within the season explained:
This means, that some wildfires, could rage in some areas year round, which could take away from the notion of a wildfire season occurring only in a part of the year.  Because wildfires are known for usually a higher rate of incidence per unit time, at certain times of the year, there is still wildfire season.  What is brought to the forefront with the year-round season concept, is not to wait until the what used to be historically seasonal cycle, for readiness to prevent and suppress wildfires.  Many things have happened over the course of time impacting a wildfire season, such as climatic changes, warming of geographic regions for different spans of time, and so on.

In geographical order, the 6 states, are in the southeastern portion of the U.S., Georgia; moving westward, Texas, in the south, which is toward the center of the country; moving northward, also near the center, is Colorado; toward the west, but not all the way west of the continental states, and in the south are NM, and Arizona, leaving Colorado is the northern most state effected by wildfires of the magnitude in this discussion; the possible exception, are fires in the northern part of California.

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COLORADO WILDFIRE: Frustration & Ugliness: A Fire that Awoke Rip Van Winkle. The Fire is in Progress at the Moment of Writing this Blog

The fire has been named the High Park Fire.

Flames were seen racing uphill, at angles in the direction of the slant of the mountains, at more of an acute angle than the mountains themselves.

Where: Larimer County, Colorado {primarily}

• Boulder County, Colorado {bordering and adjacent south of Larimer, of concern}
• Jefferson County, Colorado {bordering and adjacent south of Boulder County, in stories, and of concern}
• Broomfield, County, Colorado {bordering and adjacent southeast tip of Boulder County, of concern}
• more specifics: east of Walden, west of Fort Collins

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Firefighters need help out there, as in more support, as of earlier this afternoon.
After 6pm EST, some emergency response management say they have all they need.
NOW, just like a fresh fire started, CAUTION, just as easily, another COULD start, adjacent, and exacerbate the current situation; so, in some sense, there can NEVER BE ENOUGH READINESS.

Opinion [:] Once the fire it completely out, then, it can be unanimously, all that they need to work against the fire is in place.  Other angles on containing and CONTROLLING the situation, in terms of contribution of teamwork strategies building, probably could not hurt.

   "We can get all the resources we want and need," he [the incident commander] said.
   But Colorado's House congressional delegation demanded that the U.S. Forest Service deploy more resources to the fire, which was zero percent contained and forced hundreds of people to abandon their homes.
 'New Mexico, Colorado fires burn out of control' [published about 6pmEST/June 11, 2012/AP]

Helicopters with water have arrived from Canada to help.

1 person is 'missing' thus far. [As of June 12, 2012, the missing person has been identified as a 62 year old woman, now deceased]

Door-to-door evacuations were/ are[?] being performed.

Stories have it the fire started Saturday morning {2 days ago}.

The description of the flames on video: bright orange flames, just like an orange colored crayon.  Huge white colored smoke clouds have formed, some looked like just the top part of a mushroom.  On top of some of the white clouds are dark-gray-colored clouds.

The fire DOES NOT seem to be CONTAINED as of yet.  12:45 EST [June 11].

20,000 acres were burnt in 48 hours.

Elements of 'whisping', winds, helping, the flames.  The kind of fire that could have awakened Rip Van Winkle.

What is a successful strategy for containing and putting the fire out?

The last footage seen, was the Colorado fire burning right now, is the kind of scene, fire loves, making due with the situation.  The situation is, it is in mountainous area of Colorado, which is more rural than a densely populated city.