[AT] OT Fires

[Richard Fink Sr]

Cecil sounds like they were in a flood some time some where.
R Fink
PA





At 05:40 AM 1/2/2006 -0600, you wrote:
>I watched one fire start up about 6pm last night and it burned thru the 
>night about 7 miles NE of here.  TV crews never mentioned it, but it 
>showed up on their radar.
>
>saturday morning I bought 8 Hale Fire pumps off of brush pumpers.  For 
>some reason everyone had water and mud in the engines.  I have spent the 
>last 2 days disassembling the engines to have them bored.  they are Briggs 
>Twin L-head engines about 12 to 16 HP.  I still need tghe bases or sump 
>for one of them.  Water froze inside and pushed out the sump.  One is on a 
>2 cylinder wisconsin, and three are on CCK Onan engines.  I am going to 
>need a lot of parts.  sheet metal etc, it looks like.....
>
>Wish I was still off work, I would bore them on the Bridgeport...
>
>cecil in OKla
>
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>We have had a bad day in the area winds gusting to 50 mph. and temperatures
>in the high 70's, with extremely low humidity.
>
>Five or six structures have been burned about 15 miles north west of here.
>No rain for several weeks, with something over 12"s  short for the year of
>2005.
>
>The TV camera crews have been reporting showing mini blasts as the cedar
>trees explode as the grass fires overtake them.
>
>The Red Cedars have really taken over in the last 25 years.
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>Luckily so far no bad fires real close.
>
>H. L. Staples
>McLoud, Oklahoma
>USA
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