02-10-2009, 07:00 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Shasta Lake,
CA
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Mike & Bernie,
Keep us updated on the progress. The pictures are really frightening, but the coverage that we get here where I live is very poor. The trees standing are like when we have our big crown fires. In the Fountain fire where over 200,000 acres burned, in places there would be a circle of trees about 100' in diameter that were completely untouched. This was caused by the fire being so intense that it sucked all of the oxygen out of those circles and therefore couldn't burn them. Six of the fire fighters died in one of them from suffocation and not any burns at all. I worked one Summer with our forestry and it is a hot and very hard job at times. And most people don't really know just how dangerous it is to fight those fires. I am praying that you will all be ok and they can get them under control soon. Take care and be careful..
Ron
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