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Title: Fire near Lytle Creek Shooting Range
Post by: Ellen on Jun 03, 07, 05:08:07 PM

Fire is in heavy brush; 3N31 (Sheep Creek Rd.) and 3N33 are closed.  Fire crews on scene.  Tankers enroute. 

Title: Re: Fire near Lytle Creek Shooting Range
Post by: Wrightwood on Jun 03, 07, 05:19:13 PM

Shooting Fire

Title: Re: Fire near Lytle Creek Shooting Range
Post by: Wrightwood on Jun 03, 07, 05:31:37 PM

10-15 acres at the ridgetop

Title: Re: Fire near Lytle Creek Shooting Range
Post by: CA5th on Jun 03, 07, 05:35:50 PM

Telegraph Peak quad T2N R6W Sections 5 and 6 

Title: Re: Fire near Lytle Creek Shooting Range
Post by: hill okie on Jun 03, 07, 07:43:29 PM

Third fire there caused by shooters. You'd think that there would not be any vegetation left to burn.

Title: Re: Fire near Lytle Creek Shooting Range
Post by: Wrightwood on Jun 03, 07, 10:19:35 PM

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While waiting for fixed wings to reload this jet flew over

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Title: Re: Fire near Lytle Creek Shooting Range
Post by: Moose on Jun 03, 07, 10:24:40 PM

That explains the 3 lookouts posted along LPC this afternoon.

Title: Re: Fire near Lytle Creek Shooting Range
Post by: Wildman on Jun 03, 07, 11:57:08 PM

The air tanker shortage will really become apparent this summer when the scarce resources may not be available in our area because of other fires.  National air tankers and helicopters are at record lows because of a lot of factors....mostly aging airframes.

Title: Re: Fire near Lytle Creek Shooting Range
Post by: spellbinder on Jun 04, 07, 03:44:12 AM

I go shooting at the range often, and have often wondered why they dont build a block wall at the top of the ridge and put high pressure sprinklers on top that would be fed from either a water truck or one of the springs in the area...

seems that if they had a perimeter around the range the risk would be far less...