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North Georgia Wildfire: Massive Blaze Reaches Nearly 20,000 Acres
Monday, November 14th 2016
簡短翻譯
這幾週喬治亞州發生了幾十起森林火災
最大的叫Rough Ridge Fire，目前為止燒了將近兩萬英畝
最近幾天至少滅了21處
(肥宅今天早上起來，以為喬治亞州台中化了…PM 2.5高到不行，26朋友還說北京看得到
月亮LOL)
The Rough Ridge Fire is the largest of dozens of wildfires that have sparked i
n bone-dry Georgia in recent weeks.
By Doug Gross
A massive wildfire continued to roar through the forests of north Georgia on M
onday, as hundreds of firefighters struggled to bring the ever-growing blaze u
nder control.
The so-called Rough Ridge fire, started Oct. 16 by a lightning strike, had con
sumed 19,411 acres as of Monday morning,According to the U.S. Forest Service.
It is, by far, the largest of dozens of wildfires state, local and federal aut
horities have had to fight in recent weeks in a bone-dry Georgia.
At 10 a.m., the Rough Ridge blaze was only 20 percent under control, despite t
he efforts of more than 200 firefighters battling it with fire engines, helico
pters and bulldozers.
The nearly month-old fire has burned primarily in the Cohutta Wilderness area
of the Chattahoochee National Forest, near Georgia's borders with Tennessee an
d North Carolina.
The Rough Ridge blaze is the largest of a series of wildfires that have singed
north Georgia in recent weeks.
The Georgia Forestry Commission said it has extinguished 21 wildfires recently
. On Monday, it was continuing to battle three active fires on Lookout Mountai
n and another in Rocky Face.
The fires have found friendly conditions to thrive in, thanks to what the nati
onal Weather Service refers to as an "exceptional" drought situation in much o
f the state.
Those drought conditions are expected to persist through the rest of the year.
In metro and exurban Atlanta, a 54-county summertime burning ban has been exte
nded in many areas as officials nervously eye the dry conditions. On Monday, P
aulding County — where a wildfire last week burned through roughly 120 acres?
— expanded the ban to include campfires and other small-scale outdoor fires t
hat had been allowed under the original ban.
A small amount of rain fell Sunday morning at the Chattahoochee National Fores
t. It slowed the Rough Ridge fire's progress briefly but wasn't nearly enough
to bring it to a stop, officials said.
The fire is burning about 90 miles north of Atlanta. But a steady haze over mu
ch of the metro area has persisted for weeks, as winds from the north push wil
dfire smoke into the area.
Firefighters are using controlled burns in an effort to starve the wildfire of
its fuel and force it toward fire breaks that have already been established.
They've encountered difficulty thus far in controlling naturally falling leave
s, which are providing fresh fuel for the fire at locations with natural and m
an-made fire breaks.
The entire Cohutta Wilderness area of the national forest has been closed to t
he public.
Photo courtesy U.S. Forest Service
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5.備註:
其他相關報道說部分的起火可能是人為的
從上禮拜三開始…等等這不是剛選完嗎w
http://i.imgur.com/Ov0UrMs.jpg
(星號不是，那是肥宅去過的餐廳…)