[SoWestLep] Garden Canyon update

[Mike Quinn]

Clips from "The [Sierra Vista] Herald"

Monument Fire on
Sunday<http://svherald.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1271950&CategoryID=51479>
Gallery of pix: http://bit.ly/mUmdAj

A couple of individual dramatic pix: http://bit.ly/krcfUU,
http://bit.ly/ivIFf3

FIRES ON 2 FRONTS
ANTELOPE FIRE: SPARK FROM BULLDOZER BELIEVED TO BE CAUSE OF FIRE ON FORT
Sat, 06/18/2011 - 00:42
‎"The Antelope Fire, which started on Fort Huachuca at about 2 p.m. Friday,
burned 2,400 acres in a short time, causing the evacuations of some city
neighborhoods close to the post’s perimeter.

Garrison Commander Col. Timothy Faulkner said the cause was a spark from a
bulldozer operation while making a fire break on the South Range, which is
tinder-dry, causing the fire to rapidly grow."

http://www.svherald.com/content/news/2011/06/18/207437

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I believe the Antelope Fire was fairly quickly 100% contained. This is the
fire that burned some of Lower Garden Canyon. Hopefully, Middle and Upper GC
will be spared...

Mike Quinn, Austin
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On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Hank Brodkin <hbrodkin at cox.net> wrote:

> To set the record straight - yes, backfires have gotten away before.
>  However what caused  the Garden Canyon flareup was sparks from a bulldozer
> being used to make a firebreak, part of the system that will, hopefully,
> stop the fire's northward spread.  Small fires were started by bulldozer
> activity that day in several places, so they started accompanying each dozer
> operation with firefighters.
>
> Hank Brodkin
> Carr Canyon, Cochise County, AZ
> hbrodkin at cox.net
> http://members.cox.net/hbrodkin
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