[petuniasevan]

Downtown Deadwood could hardly been seen from U.S. Highway 85
at mid-afternoon Sunday because of smoke settling in from the fires.
(Journal photo by Dick Kettlewell)

Thadd Turner evacuates horses Saturday from the Days of '76 Museum and rodeo grounds.
Turner, who took his horses to Seven Downs Arena at Spearfish, is staying in Spearfish
until it is safe to return to Deadwood.
(Photo by Tanya Turner)

Smoke streams out of Grizzly Gulch across Lead and north beyond the Open Cut.
Firefighters at sunset Sunday concentrated tanker drops on a spot fire east of the Open Cut
and another fire moving up from Kirk Road just south of the Yates Shaft head frame at the former Homestake Mine.
Because of the fire threat, officials urged evacuation of most of Lead.
Warner Images/Tom Warner

Flames continue Sunday on the charred remains of a tree just off Boulder Canyon Road.
Almost everything else on the hillside was destroyed.
(Journal photo by Dick Kettlewell)

This home just off the Boulder Canyon Road narrowly escaped destruction as firefighters
stopped the blaze within 20 feet of the back door.
(Journal photo by Dick Kettlewell)

[KantianBurke]

poor horse. I remember seeing one that was so afraid of fire and the smell of ash that you weren't supposed to smoke near it as she'd go nuts otherwise

[SoDak]

Hopefully the Daschle-Johnson blaze can be controlled with no loss of life or property.

[NativeNewYorker]

It's pretty clear this is partisan.

I mean, there were no high profile fires in the home state of an oppostion Senate leader under Clinton.

/sarcasm

[petuniasevan]

Firefighters had to negotiate rugged terrain to
suppress hot spots like this one just
overlooking the town of Deadwood on Sunday.
(Journal photo by Dick Kettlewell)

A slurry bomber flies through murky skies
over an American flag waving at Mount
Moriah Cemetery on Saturday evening as
fire threatens Deadwood. The photo was
taken from William's Street, and was
submitted by Linda Lichens, whose house in
the President's Neighborhood narrowly
escaped the flames.

Progression of a fire

A tower of flame above the homes near the Days of 76 rodeo grounds signals the Grizzly Gulch Fire's march on Spruce Gulch Saturday afternoon. The flames rapidly grew up the hillside overlooking Ferguson Field, and soon flared 100 or more feet above White Rock Peak. By nightfall, the fire still burned intensely.

[colorado tanker]

First Deadwood and now Lead. This is so sad. The Black Hills are just a jewel, one of the prettiest places on Earth.

We have smoke again today in Denver - they say its from the northern fires.

[Jhoffa_]

"Deadwood"

How Ironic.

[2sheep]

>Residents in a broad swath of Lead were asked to voluntarily evacuate their homes late Sunday when the Grizzly* Gulch Fire flared up along its western edge.

The nation is under the Judgment of God.  The fire in this area reflects a national *bear market and the gold and silver is cankered.  Jas 5:1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. 3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
 

>All of the fire departments and agencies came together quickly Saturday and kept the fire out of Deadwood, he said. "This fire should have taken out a lot of Deadwood, but it didn't," he said.

It is not over.  There is some "deadwood" here:  Joh 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.  6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

Deadwood

Deadwood, city (1990 pop. 1,830), seat of Lawrence co., W S.Dak., in the BLACK HILLS; settled 1876. It was a gold and silver boom town; today tourism and gambling (legalized in 1989), lumbering, and mining provide employment. So named because its trees had been killed by fire, Deadwood is noted for its colorful early history and for the graves of Wild Bill HICKOK, CALAMITY JANE, and Deadwood Dick.

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