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Diamars 20 Juli 2021
“Señor ta mi wardador, mi’n tin falta di
nada
Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta ponemi
sosega.
E ta hibami na awa trankil,
Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”.
Salmo: 23
Nos ta anuncia fayecimento di:
Barbara Francequita Vrolijk-
Christiaans
Mihor conoci como: “Baïta”
*03-12-1927 - †17-07-2021
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia despues.
“Señor ta mi wardador, mi’n tin falta di nada
Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta ponemi
sosega.
E ta hibami na awa trankil,
Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”.
Salmo: 23
Cu inmenso tristesa na nos curason, nos ta
anuncia fayecimento di nos tata, welo,
bisawelo, ruman y omo stima:
Joaquin Maduro
Mihor conoci como Tatai, Jopi, Watanai,
Waco
*07-03-1930 - †18-07-2021
Ex empleado di Haven en loods Dienst
Acto di despedida lo wordo anuncia despues.
Size of Oregon wildfire underscores vastness of
the US West
By the time the Bootleg Fire is
extinguished months from now,
it will likely be as big or bigger
than those fires, but research
shows that Oregon once expe-
rienced megafires much larger
than these fairly often, Johnston
said.
“I think it’s important for us to
take the long view of wildfire.
In the context of the last couple
hundreds years, the Bootleg Fire
is not large,” he said. “One of
the things my lab group does is
reconstruct historical fires, and
fires that were burning in that
area in the 1600s and 1700s were
just as big as the Bootleg Fire or
bigger.”
That’s little reassurance for fire
(AP) — The monstrous wild- crews battling the current blaze,
fire burning in Oregon has Pushed by strong winds from which is 25% contained.
grown to a third the size of the southwest, the fire is spread-
Rhode Island and spreads ing rapidly to the north and east, On Monday, flames forced the
miles each day, but evacu- advancing toward an area that’s evacuation of a wildlife research
ations and property losses increasingly remote. station as firefighters had to re-
treat from the flames for the
have been minimal com- ninth consecutive day due to
pared with much smaller Evacuation orders on the fire’s erratic and dangerous fire be-
blazes in densely populated southern edge, closer to more havior. Sycan Marsh hosts thou-
areas of California. populous areas like Klamath
Falls and Bly, have been lifted sands of migrating and nesting
The fire’s jaw-dropping size or relaxed as crews gain control. birds and is a key research sta-
contrasted with its relatively Now it’s small, unincorporated tion on wetland restoration in
small impact on people under- communities like Paisley and the upper reaches of the Klam-
scores the vastness of the Amer- Long Creek — both with fewer ath Basin.
ican West and offers a reminder than 250 people — and scat-
that Oregon, which is larger tered homesteads that are in the Fire pushed by winds and fueled
than Britain, is still a largely ru- crosshairs. by bone-dry conditions jumped
ral state, despite being known fire-retardant containment lines
mostly for its largest city, Port- “The Bootleg Fire is threatening and pushed up to 4 miles into
land. ranch houses that are in pretty new territory, authorities said.
far-flung areas,” Johnston said.
The 476-square-mile “There are no suburbs in that Fire crews were also rushing to
corral multiple “slop fires” —
(1,210-square-kilometer) Boot- area.” patches of flames that escaped
leg Fire is burning 300 miles
(483 kilometers) southeast of But as big as the Bootleg Fire is, fire lines meant to contain the
Portland in and around the Fre- it’s not the biggest Oregon has blaze — before they grew in
mont-Winema National Forest, seen. The fire’s current size puts size. One of those smaller fires
a vast expanse of old-growth it fourth on the list of the state’s was already nearly 4 square
forest, lakes and wildlife refuges. largest blazes in modern times, miles (10 square kilometers) in
size. Thunderstorms with dry
including rangeland fires, and lightning were possible Monday
If the fire were in densely pop- second on the list of infernos
ulated parts of California, “it specifically burning in forest. as well, heightening the dangers.
would have destroyed thousands
of homes by now,” said James These megafires usually burn “We are running firefighting
Johnston, a researcher with Or- until the late fall or even early operations through the day and
egon State University’s College winter, when rain finally puts all through the night,” said Joe
of Forestry who studies histori- them out. Hessel, incident commander.
cal wildfires. “But it is burning “This fire is a real challenge, and
in one of the more remote areas The largest forest fire in mod- we are looking at sustained bat-
of the lower 48 states. It’s not ern history was the Biscuit tle for the foreseeable future.”
the Bay Area out there.” Fire, which torched nearly 780
square miles (2,000 square ki-
At least 2,000 homes have been lometers) in 2002 in the Rogue
evacuated at some point dur- River–Siskiyou National Forest
ing the fire and another 5,000 in southern Oregon and north-
threatened. At least 70 homes ern California. The largest fire
and more than 100 outbuildings of any type was the Long Draw
have gone up in flames. Thick Fire in 2012, which incinerated
smoke chokes the area where 872 square miles (2,260 square
residents and wildlife alike kilometers) of mostly sagebrush
have already been dealing with and rangeland in the endless ex-
months of drought and extreme panses of southeastern Oregon,
heat. No one has died. where almost no one lives.