It’s not illogical or idiotic, if you take a few minutes to think about it and understand it. Fires are named after geographic locations and references. Fire starts on Camp Road, the IC is likely to call it the Camp Fire.
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The fire started on Camp Creek Road so why not name it the Camp Creek Fire? Or ButteFire? Or PulgaFire? The other geographic locations near the actual fire. Why name it after something that people can easily misinterpret?
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Because neither Butte nor Pulga are as descriptive, and “Camp Creek” is two words, more likely to be messed up on radio transmissions.
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Fires are named for their location where they started.
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It's named after the road that it started on. The only time I've seen them change it was when one started on Indian Dick Rd, which was sort of hilarious.
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Camp creek rd where it started
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Near Camp Creek I hear.
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Fires named for the road they start on. Camp Fire originated on Camp Creek Road.
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Wrong, they are usually place names based on where the origination point was.
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I was thinking the same thing. A million results for #... campfire ??
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I was thinking THE SAME THING on this one. Otherwise, going off geographic places of fire origin makes sense.
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