The numbers confirm 2009 was a slow fire season, and that fact may be a key reason private fire-fighting contractors are holding off committing personnel to training until they have a better idea what the 2010 season might be like.“It was a slow year,” Tom Cuellar, assistant manager of the SRV firefighting program, said. “Nearly all the numbers were down.”According to Crystle Carpenter, Vale BLM Dispatcher, there were only 37 fires that crews were dispatched to in the whole Vale district, which stretches from the Oregon/Nevada border to a small corner of southeast Washington. The largest of those was the Pine Ridge Fire, near Moore’s Hollow at 865 acres, Carpenter said. Most blazes were small ones that were put out quickly.
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