Crews stop fire blowing toward I-5.Byline: Rebecca Nolan The Register-Guard CRESWELL - Firefighters stopped a fast-moving grass fire before it reached busy Interstate in·ter·state adj. Involving, existing between, or connecting two or more states. n. One of a system of highways extending between the major cities of the 48 contiguous United States. Noun 1. 5 on Wednesday, but thick smoke stretched like a blanket across the freeway, limiting visibility and slowing traffic. A piece of farm machinery working in a hay field off Davisson Road south of East River Drive started the fire about a mile south of Creswell about 12:40 p.m. The flames leaped fences to the north and south, and a moderate wind pushed the blaze BLAZE - A single assignment language for parallel processing. ["The BLAZE Language: A Parallel Language for Scientific Programming", P. Mehrotra <mehrotra@csrd.uiuc.edu> et al, J Parallel Comp 5(3):339-361 (Nov 1987)]. along, said Capt. Paul Eckstine of South Lane County Fire & Rescue. Ten to 20 acres burned, he said. "It was moving pretty fast," he said. "We had just enough wind to give us a good workout Workout Informal repayment or loan forgiveness arrangement between a borrower and creditors. workout 1. The process of a debtor's meeting a loan commitment by satisfying altered repayment terms. ." The wind shifted direction a couple of times, prompting a change in firefighting 1. firefighting - What sysadmins have to do to correct sudden operational problems. An opposite of hacking. "Been hacking your new newsreader?" "No, a power glitch hosed the network and I spent the whole afternoon fighting fires." 2. tactics, Eckstine said. Mostly the fire pushed northeast, toward the freeway, he said, and plumes of dense smoke drifted across the southbound south·bound adj. Going toward the south. southbound Adjective going towards the south Adj. 1. lanes of I-5. Crews from the Creswell and Cottage Grove Cottage Grove, village (1990 pop. 22,935), Washington co., SE Minn., near the St. Croix River; inc. 1965. There is farming (cattle, sheep, corn, and soybeans) and manufacturing (chemicals and machinery). stations fought the blaze, while the Goshen Rural Fire Protection District provided mutual aid. The fire did not threaten any structures. Department of Transportation employees flagged down traffic to warn drivers of the limited visibility and a maintenance crew used mowers to cut a fire break in the grass along the freeway. "It gave us a hard time for at least an hour and then we had another hour of cleanup," Eckstine said. About 10 firefighting rigs were at the blaze, including three water tenders carrying thousands of gallons of water. CAPTION(S): Firefighters from South Lane County Fire & Rescue battle a grass and scrub fire along the west side of Interstate 5 south of Creswell while dense smoke drifts across the freeway, slowing traffic. A piece of farm machinery in a hay field sparked the blaze, which took more than an hour to extinguish Extinguish Retire or pay off debt. . R o a d h a z a r d |
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