Table Rock Fire
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Table rock fire. Sitting on the western lip of it is a usfs fire lookout station that is staffed through the fire season late june september. Multiple airplanes and helicopters rushed. This starts from the bridge over i5 in central point to the overpass by the square dance building. The total cost of battling the flames ended up around 341 000.
Immediately following the fire boise fire chief dennis doan called the fireworks policy absolutely ludicrous now doan is asking lawmakers to prohibit the sale of fireworks in idaho. Fire station 4 is located at 2208 table rock rd next to the railroad park. Table rock is an outstanding geologic feature of columbia river basalt at 6 250 feet on the eastern edge of the mill creek watershed. The table rock fire started unintentionally with illegal fireworks on june 30th of last year.
It is home to our training grounds which includes a 4 story training tower draft pit commercial pitched roof prop sharks cage rit props and natural gas props. You can either make this a walk about half a mile beginning at the table rock south trailhead and leaving the lookout road to angle up cross country after the initial patch of forest or drive there 0 8 miles. The table rock fire scorched 2 600 acres of the boise foothills and threatened hundreds of homes sending fire crews scrambling to contain the flames that raced up one hillside and down the next. This new facility which replaced the old station 4 opened on march 17 2017.
A grass fire that burned about a half acre along table rock road near wildhorse lane late monday afternoon was human caused according to boise fire department investigators but they can t say. Firefighters say the table rock fire was caused by someone lighting. A brush fire approaching 2 500 acres near table rock has destroyed a home and another structure in the boise foothills. The new fire located near the table rock overpass quickly shot up a large column of gray smoke and drew an immediate response from the air and ground.