Range 12 Fire
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Range 12 fire | |
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Date(s) | July 31, 2017 |
Standort | Benton County and Yakima County, Washington |
Coordinates | 46°35′13″N 119°58′37″W / 46.587°N 119.977°W |
Statistics | |
Burned area | over 176,000 acres (71,000 ha) |
Impacts | |
Damage | Unknown |
Map | |
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The Range 12 Fire was started on July 31, 2016 in eastern Washington, at the Yakima Training Center northeast of Yakima, Washington.[1][2] It quickly grew to over 176,000 acres (71,000 ha) to cover parts of Yakima County and Benton County.[3] The fire was the third in recent years to affect the area surrounding the Hanford Reach National Monument and the Arid Lands Ecology Reserve, but was eventually contained through the use of controlled burns near Rattlesnake Ridge.[4]
Other sources
- Remote Sensing (journal)
- Ba, Rui; Song, Weiguo; Li, Xiaolian; Xie, Zixi; Lo, Siuming (2019-02-06). "Integration of Multiple Spectral Indices and a Neural Network for Burned Area Mapping Based on MODIS Data". Remote Sensing. 11 (3): 326. doi:10.3390/rs11030326. ISSN 2072-4292.
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: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - Research about using satellite imagery to track fires on the ground. Much of their research was about the Range 12 fire.
- Ba, Rui; Song, Weiguo; Li, Xiaolian; Xie, Zixi; Lo, Siuming (2019-02-06). "Integration of Multiple Spectral Indices and a Neural Network for Burned Area Mapping Based on MODIS Data". Remote Sensing. 11 (3): 326. doi:10.3390/rs11030326. ISSN 2072-4292.
- University of Washington
- "Monitoring Impacts to Rare Plant Populations from Range 12 Fire - UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON". portal.nifa.usda.gov. Retrieved 2022-04-21. — research about potential rare (and possibly endangered) species near the Hanford Site that may have been impacted by the Range 12 fire.
- Vice (magazine)
- "To Prevent a Nuclear Disaster, Washington Firefighters Burned a Whole Mountain". Vice (magazine). Retrieved 2022-04-21.
- Some of the concern about this fire being near the Hanford Site. A quote: "The raging inferno, called the Range 12 Fire, threatened to summit Washington's Rattlesnake Mountain, and creep down the other side toward the Hanford Nuclear Site, an aging nuclear production complex that sits along the Columbia River."
- The concern about the fire was about the fire in the Rattlesnake Hills and on Rattlesnake Mountain in Benton County
- Newsweek
- "Nuclear Waste Leaking at 'American Fukushima' in Northwest". Newsweek. 2016-05-03. Retrieved 2022-04-21. - An article that compares the Hanford Site to the Fukushima nuclear disaster
- KIMA-TV — Yakima, Washington
- "Range 12 Fire: 90 percent contained,176,000 acres burned in Yakima, Benton Counties". KIMA-TV. 2016-08-02. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
- This citation contains helpful pictures and a map, and points out that the fire started at the Yakima Training Center.
- KEPR-TV
- "Range 12 Fire Map: Officials say 70,000 acres burning in Yakima, Benton Counties". KEPR-TV. 2016-08-01. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
- Link to map provided by KEPR-TV on August 1, when the fire was still out of control north of Sunnyside, Washington
- Tri-Cities Herald
- "$15M lawsuit filed over wildfire that threatened Hanford". Tri-Cities Herald. January 26, 2018. Archived from the original on 2018-02-03. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
- Story about the lawsuit filed a couple of years after the fire.
- WBUR-FM
- King, Anna (September 6, 2016). "Washington State Wildfire Destroys Sensitive Habitat On National Land". WBUR-FM / Northwest News Network. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
- Yale University Press
- Jacobs, R.A. (2022). Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300230338.
- Quote from the book: "In the summer of 2016, numerous large wildfires threatened to spread across the Hanford Reservation. Most concerning was the Range 12 fire that spread from Grant and Yakima Counties into Benton County, where the sprawling nuclear site is located. The fire threatened to summit Rattlesnake Mountain and spread into the Hanford Nuclear Site itself."
References
- ^ Cary, Annette (July 31, 2016). "Fires burn across Eastern Washington, some Prosser-area residents evacuated". Tri-Cities Herald.
- ^ Worthington, Sarah (August 2, 2016). "Range 12 Fire: 90 percent contained,176,000 acres burned in Yakima, Benton Counties". KIMA-TV. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
- ^ Cary, Annette (August 3, 2016). "Range 12 fire 90% contained, 176,600 acres of Yakima, Benton counties scorched". Yakima Herald-Republic. Retrieved August 23, 2016.
Residents were told to evacuate their homes west of Prosser in the area of Ward Gap and Richards Roads early Sunday evening.
- ^ Cary, Annette (August 6, 2016). "Time needed for ravaged Hanford monument ecosystem to recover from third fire". Tri-City Herald. Retrieved August 23, 2016.