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LOWELL — Close to Eugene and just up a winding forest road from Lowell, one of Oregon’s many multimillion-dollar forest fires this season is smouldering and flaring away.

The Jones Fire exemplifies wildfire in Oregon this year. Started by lightning in remote, steep terrain on the Willamette National Forest, the blaze was too dangerous to squelch when it blew up on Aug. 12, sending up a 25,000-foot-high column of smoke. The Whitewater Fire near Marion Forks, the Milli Fire near Sisters and the massive Chetco Bar Fire near Brookings have similar stories.

Firefighters on the Jones Fire have dug containment lines distant from the blaze and plan to burn woods between those lines and the wildfire when winds are right. But the fire has been unpredictable, for example when it jumped parts of Big Fall Creek Road, or Forest Road 18, earlier this month.

As the Jones Fire has grown, so has the cost of fighting it. So far, the blaze has cost the U.S. Forest Service $6.6 million to fight, according to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise. The Jones Fire, and most of Western Oregon’s other big fires this season, are largely on federal land, meaning Uncle Sam foots the ever-growing bill.

Federal accountants set budgets for fires. And sometimes have to reset them, said Mike Ciraulo, incident commander for Northwest Incident Management Team 10. The team was in charge of fighting the Jones Fire for two weeks until Saturday.

“They

Article source: http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/35894065-75/oregons-wildfires-have-burned-over-300000-acres-and-cost-of-firefighter-has-surpassed-100-million.html.csp

While the market for converting mid-life Boeing 737-800 passenger aircraft to freighters is set to take off, according to a new white paper on the freighter-conversion market from IBA Group, the group cautions that because several different conversion programs are available for companies planning to own or operate converted 737-800s need to take several cost factors into account.

In addition to focusing on freighter market conditions overall, IBA’s wide-ranging white paper Freighter Conversions – Capitalising on the Resurgence in Demand, published earlier this month to accompany the launch of the consulting firm’s new freighter advisory practice to serve predicted growth in the air cargo industry, takes a close look at the 737-800 conversion market.

As well as describing in detail the pricing decisions companies must make in deciding when to convert 737-800 passenger aircraft to freighters, and forecasting when the 737-800 conversion market will really accelerate, IBA’s white paper notes that three different conversion programs are already under development and a fourth program is likely to be announced in the future.

Boeing, Aircraft Engineers and Israel Aircraft Industries are already developing 737-800 conversion programs and IBA Group expects Pemco, which was the first company to develop any Boeing 737NG conversion with its 737-700 program, to announce a similar program for the 737-800 in the future.

Because at least three and possibly four different 737-800 conversion programs – all different in specification – will be available for a narrowbody aircraft model which will become available for conversion in large numbers, IBA says would-be owners and

Article source: http://www.mro-network.com/maintenance-repair-overhaul/considerations-converted-737-800-freighter-operators

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