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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 05:05 PM Original message |
What's the criteria for "naming" a wildfire? |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 05:07 PM Response to Original message |
1. You just read it off their nametags. |
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ohiosmith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 05:07 PM Response to Original message |
2. Usually named for the area by the firefighters. |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 05:08 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. and the media just picks up on it? makes sense. |
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ohiosmith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 05:09 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. See, I'm not just a pretty face. |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 05:47 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. At a press conference |
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Lisa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 05:23 PM Response to Original message |
5. in Canada they have a name and either a year or a number ... |
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ohiosmith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 05:24 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Canadians are so anal. |
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Lisa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 05:36 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. that's right! and we assign them different colors when we do a map overlay ... |
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Roon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
7. I know in Colorado, the person that first spots the fire |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 05:45 PM Response to Original message |
9. If it's the first one who spots the fire... |
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