[Scan-DC] Virginia Receives FSA

Fri, 1 Mar 2002 09:40:32 -0800 (PST)

--- Raleigh Stout <[email protected]> wrote:
> To: fire <[email protected]>, VA
> <[email protected]>
> From: Raleigh Stout <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 09:32:52 -0800 (PST)
> Subject: [fire_wx] Virginia Receives FSA
> Reply-to: [email protected]
> 
> http://www.fema.gov/emanagers/nat030102.htm
> 
> A Fire Suppression Assistance (FSA) grant was
> approved
> for the Fultz Run fire located in Shenandoah and
> Page
> counties in Virginia. The fire is threatening 100
> homes and has burned over 1,400 acres.
> 
> The wildfire that began on February 21 continues to
> burn uncontrollably in national park land in
> southwestern Page County. About 90 percent of the
> burned landscape was within the Shenandoah National
> Park. Nearly 200 firefighters have been used to
> battle
> the blaze, complemented by four Department of
> Forestry
> (DOF) bulldozer crews, two helicopters and numerous
> fire engines and brush trucks.
> 
> The DOF anticipates the forecast over the weekend
> should help contain the blaze. Forecasters are
> calling
> for lessening winds and a chance of showers by
> Saturday. Those factors, coupled with low overnight
> temperatures, should help slow the spread of the
> fire.
> Firefighters plan to have all of their fire lines
> built by tomorrow and be able to pull out all but a
> few Federal hotshot crews by Monday or Tuesday.
> (FEMA
> HQ, Harrisonburg, VA News-Record)
> 
> 
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