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On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 17:37:53 -0700 "Karin" <curtkar@...> writes:
> Karin, who can see the smoke plumes looking to the NE from Phoenix
>
I was wondering of you could see it at all...

The one fire was started by the woman who was lost in the national
forest, which was *closed* at the time because of fire danger so what the
hell was she doing there?, and she saw a helicopter so she lit a flare to
signal and by the time it landed the fire was already out of control...
man, she was an idiot. I hope they bill her.

Gov. Hull was talking about some federal policies that had prevented the
removal of underbrush for years, she was saying that had a lot to do with
it all...

Dar

Karin

>
> I've been following the Rodeo fire in Arizona in the news. I grew up in
> Arizona. The White Mountains are burining. Show Low is burning - the main
> street in town is called Deuce of Clubs, because that was the low card
> that the winning rancher turned up. We used to go up fishing near there
> during the summer, at Lake of the Woods in Pinetop-Lakeside, at a cabin
> in Greer, in Heber-Overgaard. Heber-Overgaard already burned. It's the
> biggest fire in Arizona history.
>
> It's all very very sad.
>
> Dar
>


I am SO grieving over this fire.
I just checked and the fire has consumed 331,000 acres of the largest
ponderosa pine forest in this continent.

My FIL has a condo and timeshare which he has owned for about 30 yrs. up in
Pinetop.
We go up there several times a year and go skiing in the White Mountains.
It is SUCH beautiful country, and so much is gone now.
All the people who live in the area and have employement and businesses ,
etc. will be hurt the most.
I have no idea what this fire will mean to their future and how they can
move on.
I hear they will be receiving federal aid, hopefully that will help.
And many people are donating articles for Red Cross to give to the 25,000 or
so people who've been evacuated from their homes.

I always thought living in Arizona meant that we were pretty fortunate to be
untouched by the forces of nature like hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes,
etc. But this fire has really wiped out a treasure of Arizona (and the
country) which will probably take 50-100 years to return to it's original
state. Though these fires were not originally naturally occuring, they were
started by humans, which someone makes it worse.

Yes, it's very, very sad. :-(

Karin, who can see the smoke plumes looking to the NE from Phoenix