08-31-2011, 10:10 AM
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Wheres the gameclock in this place?
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Marsh Fire near New Orleans
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NEW ORLEANS — Mayor Mitch Landrieu said Tuesday he spotted a second marsh fire during a flight over one that has hazed the metro area with smoke for three days, and it was so close to a highway that he declared an emergency, allowing him to call out the Louisiana National Guard to help.
Four helicopters based in Hammond were dropping water from 500-gallon baskets onto the fire and five based in Pineville would join them Wednesday, said Brig. Gen. Glenn H. Curtis, director of the joint staff for the Louisiana National Guard.
Haze from the fire was reported as far west as the Baton Rouge metro area, the National Weather Service said. It expanded its smoke alert from New Orleans and six suburban parishes to 23 parishes, including towns 100 miles from New Orleans.
As of Tuesday morning, the original fire had burned all but about 537 acres — about eight-tenths of a square mile — of the trees, shrubs and grass on a 1,552.5-acre area surrounded by canals, said Ryan Berni, spokesman for Landrieu. It started in the center of the area and has been spreading outward.
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