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The B&B Complex fire
started as two separate fires on August 19th, 2003. The Bear
Butte fire was reported at 1:19 PM by a helicopter from Warm Springs
Indian Reservation. The fire was burning mainly in the Mount
Jefferson Wilderness Area and on the Warm Springs Indian
Reservation. The Booth Fire was reported at 3:23 PM on the
same day by Hinkle Butte Lookout, which is north of the City of Sisters, and
in the Sisters - Camp Sherman Fire District. This fire was
burning in the Deschutes and Willamette National Forests in mixed
conifer, lodgepole pine, and bug-killed timber. A majority of
this fire was within the Mt. Jefferson Wilderness as well. By
the time the fire was contained it burned several structures and over
91,915 acres, leaving a huge scar in the Central Oregon Cascades. |
