Friday, May 11, 2007

Live bloging the WTIP morning show

• 40% chance of rain on sunday
• The fire doubled in size yesterday to 85 square miles (55,000 acres)
• It has crossed back over the gunflint trail. I assume this means crossing over gunflint lake based on previous reports
• The "head" is 2 miles wide moving south east towards poplar lake

There will be a community meeting at 10:00 with some long awaited maps since the blow up yesterday, I will update when I hear that info.

UPDATE 10:00 NEWS:
Google map updated to reflect what I heard in in the news.
• Moved east into Canada then traveled south back over Gunflint, and across the Gunflint trail around HW 90 and Iron lake, and then further south.
• No new structures lost.
• "Tested yesterday, no one was hurt"
• Road block, no one goes past Poplar Lake firehall
• You can still get to E. Bearskin and such, but will be questioned.

UPDATE 10:10:
• No news structures lost (?) but things remain unclear
• Thank yous
• This is a unified type 1 command with Canada, county, state, and federal teams.
• Almost 500 people fighting the fire.
• All eastern BWCA access points are closed.
• Fire is unpredictable

UPDATE 10:15:
• 275 registered evacuees in Grand Marais
• This meeting will be re-broadcast at 2:00 on WTIP (web feed)
• New meeting around 7:00 tonight.

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