Environment

Land Between the Lakes Burns

WKMS | By Todd Hatton,

Published August 13, 2012 at 9:03 AM CDT

Firefighters say they’ve contained weekend wildfires that burned more than 250 acres of woodlands in northern parts of The Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area. Sporadic fires still smolder between the Nickell Branch access road and the Trace, just north of the North Welcome Station. LBL officials say they believe the fire began when a hay cutter struck a rock and sparked the blaze Saturday afternoon. Even though officials report they’ve largely contained the fire and say the risk of spreading is low, trails in the area remain closed. A fireworks and burn ban remains in place for all of Lyon County.

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Todd Hatton

Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.

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Dave is a retired Army tank platoon sergeant. During Desert Storm, he helped overrun a Republican Guard bunker complex in Iraq's Euphrates Valley. In the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, he commanded a mountaintop UN Preventive Deployment Force observation post on the Macedonian frontier with Serbia. In Bavaria, he served as news director at the American Forces Network radio station in Wurzburg, on special duty assignment from December 1981 to March 1984. He's a 2003 magna cum laude graduate of Western Kentucky University.

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