30 April 2009 Morning Report
Red Flags are up for much of interior southern New England for this afternoon.
There was some moderately active fires in the region yesterday.
East Putnam, CT went mutual aid to West Glocester, RI for a brush fire, and later East Putnam fought a brush fire around dusk off of I-395 that required mutual aid from Putnam, Community, and Thompson Hill.
Oxford, MA had a fire on a trail behind the Orchard Hill apartments that used mutual aid from Leicester as well as Massachusett’s Bureau of Forest Fire Control. I’ve driven that trail before…I was truly dumbfounded when this trail brought me to the rear of this affordable housing complex!
Milford, MA returned to the area that burned Tuesday, this time only 1-1/2 acres burnt. This video from the Milford Daily News is interesting for showing the steep, stone strewn hillside. This is worth it’s own post in the future, because I can’t imagine any effective tactic other then using hoselines. Using hand tools to construct a line is near impossible because of the small openings between rocks, while clambering over the normally lose surface when wearing a backpack pump is inviting a twisted ankle.
CT Fire Danger:
High
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WINDHAM CT-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ASHFORD...PLAINFIELD...PUTNAM...
WILLIMANTIC
402 AM EDT THU APR 30 2009
...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EDT
THIS EVENING...
TODAY TONIGHT FRI
CLOUD COVER MCLEAR MCLDY MCLDY
PRECIP TYPE NONE SHOWERS SHOWERS
CHANCE PRECIP (%) 0 80 70
TEMP /24H TREND/ 65 (-1) 51 (+12) 69
RH % /24H TREND/ 22 (+8) 86 (-14) 66
20FT WND AM /MPH/ LGT/VAR SW 10 G28
20FT WND PM /MPH/ S 9 G19 S 8 G20 SW 13 G27
PRECIP AMOUNT 0.00 0.11 0.33
PRECIP DURATION 7 9
PRECIP BEGIN 8 PM CONTINUING
PRECIP END CONTINUING CONTINUING
MIXING HGT /FT-AGL/ 4710 70 1890
TRANSPORT WND /KTS/ S 17 S 19 SW 23
VENT RATE /KT-FT/ 80070 1330 43470
CWR 0 80 100
LAL NO TSTMS NO TSTMS NO TSTMS
HAINES INDEX 5 3 2
