09-12-2012, 02:11 PM
[quote DCG]I sure hope it wasn't man caused but it probably was.[/quote]
It was actually lightning. There was a typical big, dry lightning storm that rolled over Salmon Country the weekend of July 27-30. (That's Friday through Monday)
The tail end of that storm flicked down a lightning bolt and started the Mustang at 6 pm Monday, July 30th. It started very small as all lightning storms do, but there were some other fires nearby and they couldn't get a handle on them all so they named them the "Mustang Complex."
I was in North Fork store August 3rd and there was a the Dalton Hotshots were there from California's Angeles Nat'l Forest. I talked to some of them and they said they were "going out on a little fire called The Mustang." They nodded their heads and said they would be able to get a handle on it, "no problem." Well, I reckon they didn't get the handle they hoped!
Their red shirts took over the entire dining room to have lunch. Boy, did things change not long after that!
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It was actually lightning. There was a typical big, dry lightning storm that rolled over Salmon Country the weekend of July 27-30. (That's Friday through Monday)
The tail end of that storm flicked down a lightning bolt and started the Mustang at 6 pm Monday, July 30th. It started very small as all lightning storms do, but there were some other fires nearby and they couldn't get a handle on them all so they named them the "Mustang Complex."
I was in North Fork store August 3rd and there was a the Dalton Hotshots were there from California's Angeles Nat'l Forest. I talked to some of them and they said they were "going out on a little fire called The Mustang." They nodded their heads and said they would be able to get a handle on it, "no problem." Well, I reckon they didn't get the handle they hoped!
Their red shirts took over the entire dining room to have lunch. Boy, did things change not long after that!
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