Lightning Jump-Starts Fire Season

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  • Source:
    Baker City Herald, The (OR), July 28, 2005 Local News, 4pp
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    • Abstract:
      By JAYSON JACOBY Of the Baker City Herald Northeastern Oregon's sluggish fire season broke into a sprint Thursday morning when a thunderstorm with lots of lightning but very little rain sparked more than 20 blazes in Baker and Union counties. More than 100 firefighters from local, state and federal agencies, with overhead help from airplanes and helicopters, were still working on several of the fires Friday morning...