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| Keywords: AspenFire2003.jpg The Aspen Fire in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson Arizona The fire started on July 17 2003 This photograph was taken on August 7 2003 Ultimately the fire raged on for several more weeks It consumed 84 750 acres or about 132 square miles destroyed 335 homes and cost over 17 000 000 to contain not including property damage and loss About 1 200 firefighters were involved at the peak of the efforts to suppress the fire dropping 3 5 million gallons of water in a dry desert environment where water is always a concern as well as 400 000 gallons of fire retardant Earlier Congress had been requested to allocate about 2 000 000 to cover the implementation of preventative measures However in the implementation of someone's infinite ecological wisdom that allocation was cut back to about 150 000 I'm glad someone has their priorities straight We now have a better handle on the relative scale of an ounce of prevention versus a pound of cure Photo by Joekoz451 14 27 15 August 2006 UTC Statistics Arizona Daily Star Sunday August 17 2003; Special Section Smoke Flames and Ash other versions en wikipedia FastilyClone MTC PD-user-en Joekoz451 Original upload log page en wikipedia AspenFire2003 jpg wikitable - 2006-02-19 03 51 48 150× 200× Joekoz451 The Aspen Fire in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson Arizona The fire started on July 17 2003 This photograph was taken on July 7 2003 Ultimately the fire raged on for several more weeks It consumed 84 750 acres or about 132 square mile - Uncategorized 2016 December 26 | ||||
