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Unofficial Rain Won't Kill Smoke
SEATTLE IN HAZERain, which fell "unofficially" on Vancouver today, is not expected to dispel the cloud of smoke which hangs over the city. The smoke is from huge forest fires, blazing in the woods of Washington and Oregon. These districts are tinder dry with no signs of rain. Showers over B.C's coastal region, however, are dousing what is left of the forest fires in this district. All are either under control or extinguished. Today's rain came as a surprise to the weatherman, who had predicted fair weather for today with some slight showers probable over the week-end.
"Had it not been for Uncle Sam's forest fire smoke blowing over to this side of the line, we would have had bright weather, with only high, thin clouds overhead," said the weatherman. Obscured by the U.S. smoke clouds, the sun, which otherwise would have shone fairly brightly on Thursday, took on the appearance of an eclipse which could be watched directly with the naked eye. In Vancouver Forest District, where last week forest fires devastated thousands of acres of merchantable timber, mostly on the Island, favorable southeast winds blew up today to help cooler temperatures and higher humidity extinguish woods blazes now well under control.
Fire Threatens 275,000 AcresSmoke clouds from the U.S. are blowing north mainly from the Olympic Peninsula and the region of Tillamook, near the mouth of the Columbia River. The smoke blanket over western Oregon and Washington, estimated from 4000 to 10,000 thick, has dropped temperatures five to six degrees. Smoke and ashy haze from Grays Harbor and northwest (Continued on Page 2.) See FIRE.
A deputy state forester warned today that a brief spell of "fire weather" might spread the 35,000 acre Wilson River blaze over 275,000 acres. He was positive that the entire Tillamook burn area would go up in smoke if the area should get two days of high winds, hot temperature, low humidity. The only thing that can save it would be several inches of rain.
