“Knowing where they are is a start to the solution because without knowing where they are, how do you show your need to the federal government of the problem we have here?” Cheguis says.22 days in Sydney, Canberra & Melbourne BY A USER FROM VIETNAM Sydney Canberra Melbourne 6 days in Canberra BY A USER FROM AUSTRALIA Questacon Australian War Memorial Mount Ainslie Lookout 12 days in Australian Capital Territory BY A USER FROM INDIA Canberra 4 days in Canberra BY A USER FROM AUSTRALIA Floriade Parliament of Australia National Gallery of Australia 9 days in Canberra BY A USER FROM INDIA Questacon Australian War Memorial ANZAC Parade Walk 27 days in Australian Capital Territory BY A USER FROM AUSTRALIA National Portrait Gallery Parliament of Australia National Gallery of Australia 7 days in Canberra BY A USER FROM AUSTRALIA Questacon Australian War Memorial Mount Ainslie Lookout 54 days in Australia BY A USER FROM UNITED STATES Sydney Cairns Brisbane 15 days in Australian Capital Territory BY A USER FROM AUSTRALIA Canberra 4 days in Canberra BY A USER FROM AUSTRALIA Lake Burley Griffin Parliament of Australia National Gallery of Australia 7 days in Canberra BY A USER FROM AUSTRALIA High Court of Australia National Gallery of Australia Parliament of Australia 9 days in Canberra BY A USER FROM PHILIPPINES Kambah District Park Royal Australian Mint Parliament of AustraliaĮvery day, we help thousands of travelers plan great vacations. The hope is that once the coal seam fires are mapped, it will not only assist landowners and firefighters, but also make it easier to get federal help for this problem burning just below the surface. And just live with it and check it yearly so,” he says.
“This particular one we were discussing, and I do think if you got an excavator down there you could get this bank off and actually remove it, but most of them are in such rough country that you can’t get to them so you would have to bulldoze around them, take all the fuel away basically. It can be difficult, if not almost impossible, to get these underground fires out. Q2 News photo Cory Cheguis and Clint Pedersen We have 80 fires a year and most of them are coal seam fires,” Pedersen said. We are a volunteer fire department, but we are full-time firefighters from about the middle of May all the way through October anymore, largely because of this. He owns a company that helps mitigate coal seam fires and is also assistant fire chief in Broadus. While the fires often can’t be seen with the naked eye-you can clearly see them from the thermal imaging camera on Clint Pedersen’s drone. “It got us within 100 feet of every coal seam so far,” Cheguis says.
They have been flying grid patterns over the four-county area that includes parts of the Crow and Northern Cheyenne reservations-pinpointing GPS coordinates of hot spots from the air and then hiking into those areas to see if they are indeed coal seam fires. Until now.īut thanks to a grant from the Rosebud Conservation district, we’ll soon have a better idea.Ĭheguis has been going up in a small plane equipped with special equipment that picks up heat. How many of these burning coal seams there are and where they are located has been mostly a guessing game.
A perfect example is last summer's Richard Spring Fire, which started in Rosebud County in August and quickly spread to more than 170,000 acres.Ī big fire in Colorado that destroyed more than a thousand buildings late last year was also linked to underground coal veins that have long been smoldering.
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