Lake Minnewaska Fire

jamesdeluxe

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Minnewaska Fire:

I thought that it's worth breaking this out into a thread -- shocking to see that the fire had almost doubled in size by COB Wednesday. Here are some pix and a DEC clip of helicopter water drop from earlier in the week.

Does anyone have updates/on-the-ground reports?

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Seems likely, 2-4 inches of rain...

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Hopefully no mud slides.
 
Harriman not Minnewaska but worth noting in my opinion

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In spite of this- Look to the middle of the clearing, a little further back behind where they hung their hammocks

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Why make a ground fire when picnicking, especially under the current conditions? I don’t get it.
 
Maybe I don't get out enough but I always wondered why they had these fire-danger signs in the east. Other than this summer's abnormally dry conditions, do they ever register anything but "low"?

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Harriman had a pretty good fire a few years back. I don’t remember all the details but I think it was over towards the Sterling Forest Side
 
Probably because history has demonstrated that the risk exists. Here are just a few results; there are many more listing specific fire events in recent times. I only searched New York.




 
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