Forest Fire Still Ablaze
By [pseudonomen] • Sep 22nd, 2007 • Category: ArticlesAround 6:15p.m. Friday evening Local fire departments were dispatched to what was originally reported as a Brush Fire in the area of Dark Hollow and Barber Road off from KY-1167 “Dry Creek Road”.
The Forest Service was notified after an active forest fire was discovered at the same location.
Local fire departments battled to keep flames away from local residences as the Forest Service prepared to battle a fire entailing acres of woodlands.
According to Friday’s Scanner Scoop the fire started as a result of someone setting off fireworks.
Top photo shows the fire still working on Saturday morning at 11:00 a.m.
Bottom photo shows an open gate on Forestry Road 12 B off from Triangle Tower Road. Apparently the Forest Service is utilizing this road to access and battle the forest fire.
At 4:00 p.m. The U.S. Forest Service decided to start a “back fire” in an attempt to extinguish the fire. Back Firing involves clearing a ring around the fire and starting fire which will burn into the existing fire. This particular operation will require that around 80 acres of woodlands be burned.
Effective Saturday at 3:45 p.m. (IMMEDIATELY):
A Burn Ban is in effect for all of Rowan County until a substantial amount of rain is received. The order has been signed by the Rowan County Judge/Executive.
The following three pictures were sent to me by Kat:
The bottom two pictures show how close this fire was to neighborhood residences.
September 22nd, 2007 at 2:52 pm
my nephew just moved from dark hollow , hated the area there. the house he lived in was right below where the a-frame houses are and someone broke in to it and all they took was fireworks and nothing else. he called the police and reported them stolen after he found out that it was caused by fireworks.
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Effective Saturday at 3:45 p.m. (IMMEDIATELY):
A Burn Ban is in effect for all of Rowan County until a substantial amount of rain is received. The order has been signed by the Rowan County Judge/Executive.
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Thanks for the help ‘UNCAT’
September 23rd, 2007 at 11:22 pm
that forrest service road winds around the ridge at about 11oo ft AMSL and at about the 2nd hard right curve that ridge connects over to the city park and is the “pass” between Dark Hollow and Cristy Creek. Some eagle scout back in the late 79’s made a hike trail from the city park to the overlook park at triangle mtn park it was a great trail until the briars and treefalls made it impassable. NOW maybe the dozer will open it up. Right at the low point of the saddle in the ridge there was a HUGH tree that fell right accross the ridge from that windstorm 11years ago, and was there about 6 years ago when is the last time I was up there “wildcating” with my Mtn Bike. Briars were terrible and its weird to see all the patches of grass from the areas of open tree canopy from that wind storm, the woods have not looked like I rememeber them as a boy in 15 years at least. I used to hate the log trails and clear cuts but the more modern practices protect from landslides and erosion and limited senceable clear cutting is healthy and does not require replanting just as long as trails are not destroyed in the process.
September 23rd, 2007 at 11:42 pm
Native American learned from experience of living in and off the woods that burning does alot for forrest health, and the various plants actually can require it to germinate the next generation of certain trees and such. I for one certainly dont like the briars that always seem to come back with a vengence after a fire but it is part of the natural process. NOW that said who ever started this with fireworks needs to be sentenced to work with the forrest fire crews, for some several months of weekends at least, if not with ye ole triangle fire break rake then at least carring water out to the staging areas for the crews or some other support role, in addition to what ever probated jail time since this was due to neglegence and not deliberate arson alledgedly
September 24th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
so what is the status today? is everything under control?
September 24th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Dave,
The Forest Service crews were still working in the area today, but from “Lookout Point” everything appears to be under control.
I don’t have any “official word” on the fire, but my guess would be that very little if any fire remains, with the exception of a few smoldering embers.
September 24th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Tech,
That trail between the city park and overlook park, Is it marked with tags or paint on the trees? Sounds like an interesting walk.
Where exactly are the trail openings located at on the city park and overlook park sides?
All of this talk of “trails” has me looking forward to a good walk this fall.
Heck, I really want to go next weekend, but with all the talk of brayer patches and downed trees, the fear of snakebite, while out in the middle of the woods, relying mostly upon my compass and vision, is outweighing my urge for a good hike until the cooler fall or winter weather arrives.
Yep, I’ll save those impassable trails for cool weather walks.
September 25th, 2007 at 12:17 am
The trail orginally might have been marked but what ever markings were gone a few years after it was essentially just raked in by fire brake tools, and without maintainence and over 30 years, a couple of fires and windstorms, there is no original trail, except the ridgline itself and what ever deer paths coincided with the original path.
Get topo or a gazetter map and you can see the path to take. The path down the hill to the city park is long gone and a road would be a better choice.
When it is really hot snakes cant sense heat but the sense vibration in the ground and if a large animal, or man is walking towards them, they tend to move off at a right angle to the direction.
I have done alot of wildcating out ridgelines and have never seen a snake with one exception, a copper head that refused to move out in the open on a very hot day with several large men moving downhill in multiple paths.
I think the snake could not tell which way to escape. One of the guys shot it. That was the blackest copper head I had ever seen BTW.
September 27th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
73,846 U.S. TROOPS DEAD;
1,620,906 PERMANENTLY DISABLED
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS ISSUES OFFICIAL REPORT CONFIRMING 73,000 U.S. TROOPS KILLED IN IRAQ
SAME GOVERNMENT AGENCY REPORT CONFIRMS 1.6 MILLION “DISABLED” BY THE WAR! :-t
HalTurnershow being called disinfo using a link right to the pdf from the vetrans affairs report.
TOTALs from the 1st invasion that sadamm was told “we are not going to interfere in Arab affairs” by the woman envoy giving the green light for him to invade kuwait.
SOME of the deaths are from training incidents and might have happened during peacetime but look at the numbers and compare to Viet Nam that even McNamara regrets.
http://www.halturnershow.com/Iraq73000USTroopsKilled.html
(not to mention the 600,000 Iraqi civilian killed,
some say over 1 million, and
thosands of tons of D.U. radioactive dust fliing around the globe.)
HOAX? This needs its own article
September 27th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Does anyone know if the amount of rain that we have received qualifies as a “significant amount” to lift the burn ban?
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August 10th, 2008 at 9:59 am
the weather is leaning towards the fall fire season again
and dry weather means bee carefull!