Fire in Pharoah Lakes Wilderness

This is a bummer, an unattended campfire in this weather. Any campfire at all seems nuts.

Hopefully rangers can contain until this weather comes through:



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SCHROON — State forest rangers are battling a growing wild fire in the eastern Adirondack woods that has scorched about 100 acres since an unattended campfire sparked the blaze over the weekend.

The Department of Environmental Conservation says about 14 forest rangers are fighting the fire Monday at Bear Mountain in the Essex County town of Schroon, 80 miles north of Albany.

DEC officials say county 911 dispatchers received word of a fire around 1:20 p.m. Saturday in the area of Crane Pond in the Pharaoh Lake Wilderness.

Sunday afternoon's dropping humidity and winds gusting to 20 mph caused the fire to spread over 80 acres.

A state police helicopter and local firefighters have been helping contain the blaze.

No injuries or damage to structures have been reported.

http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2015/sep/28/100-acre-wild-fire-adirondacks/

Wish one of these fires would start at the bottom of a NE facing slope with 1500+ feet of vert above it.  Of course away from any buildings

Ha +1

Bring it.

Been raining pretty much all day so that should be out now

It didn't start raining (hard) on this fire until late in the day (4-5pm) but I'd think it has to be out at this point.

hope we get a winter storm of this magnitude.