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Archive Home > 2008 > October > 11 > Timing — and luck — helped minimize 2008 fires

Timing — and luck — helped minimize 2008 fires

By Kate Ramsayer / The Bulletin
October 11, 2008

It was an unusual year for wildfires.

A heavy snowpack delayed the season, and when the fires did start sparking in late June and July, different regions in Oregon saw differing extremes. The timing and pattern of lightning storms, the availability of firefighting crews and the location of the....

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