Edward Callahan
Edward Callahan
fire length order runs skinny somewhere
It's somewhere in the order of 150 to 180 acres, ... It's a long skinny fire. It's runs the length from Fairhope to Bedford
across entirely fire line running top
(Monday) the fire got running a little but and we weren't able to get line entirely in place, ... We now have a line across the top of the fire.
county mercy mother until water
We're at Mother Nature's mercy, until it rains, ... We could use all the water in Somerset County and it would still burn.
burned fire line spots work
We have two dozers work on a line from the top, the fire is spotty, ... There's a lot of spots where it has not burned yet.
might
We'll be back out there tomorrow, might be a day or two yet,
soon
We will investigate it as soon as we can get a chance,
fire hard head remote
It's such a long fire and the head of the fire is in a very remote and a hard area,
areas burning fans fire gets goes solid top wall
It's not a solid wall of flames, ... Its burning up through hollows, as the fire goes upslope, it fans out to the side. As it gets to the top it's wider. Some areas will never burn.
burning control finished last line within
The last I heard, they had it in control, ... There's part of it burning within there, he has a control line just about finished up top.
appears caused determined exact fire happened railroad
It appears to be railroad caused fire, ... What malfunction and what happened no one knows. The exact cause we will determined once it's extinguished.
creates fire worst
The fire creates its own uptrack, ... It's one of our worst areas.