Press Release--lindbergh Lake Fire 61 Acres, 95% C
Incident: Lindbergh Lake Wildland Fire
Released: 7/26/2008
July 26, 2008, Condon, Montana - Originally estimated at 104 acres, the Lindbergh Lake Fire near Condon has been thoroughly mapped and determined to be 61 acres, give or take a few. Fire officials are comfortable calling the fire 95% contained. If progress continues at this rate, incident commanders will begin to downsize over the next few days and send some of the crews back to their home units or to other fires as needed.
Many of the firefighters and command staff were unaware that the Lindbergh Lake Fire had an international component to it. On the Great Northern Fire Crew based out of Condon, MT, there are two firefighters from South Africa. Alfred Boer, from Northern Cape and Phumzile Gininda, from Mpumalanga, South Africa arrived only one week ago in an exchange program set up between the two countries. They will be working with the Great Northern Fire Crew until mid September performing all of the firefighting duties and natural resource projects that need to be completed throughout the summer. With the Lindbergh Lake Fire, Alfred and Phumzile have been thrown into some of the toughest terrain Montana has to offer. However, South Africa has some tough terrain of its own and Alfred and Phumzile have contributed their skills to the tremendous effort of the rest of the fire crews in fire suppression activities.
For the latest information, please call the Fire Information Center at 406-754-3023 between the hours of 8:00 am and 6:00 pm or visit http://www.inciweb.org/ for more information.
