My earlier post, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/12256 refers to the types of communities that happen to live in the fire areas of Colorado, Arizona, and Oregon - a rather independent lot and we all know what the the established powers think of independence. I should have also mentioned that wild areas where "right"-thinking people live are NOT on fire and that the areas that ARE on fire are areas that are known to be home to a largely environmental populace. The below quote, taken from the article even further below, talks about the Kalmiopsis Wilderness, a place that has been at the center of environmental battles for many a year. It just happens to be on fire.
"The fire has burned over much of the Kalmiopsis Wilderness Area in the Siskiyou National Forest and into northwest California, and it is now threatening homes and businesses in Agness, Ilahe, Oak Flat, upper Pistol River, upper Chetco River, Cave Junction, O'Brien and Selma."
see also Arson and "Salvage" Logging
the following is copied from http://www.missoulian.com/display/inn_news/news02.txt
Oregon fire zone residents in 'wait and see' mode
U.S. Forest Service firefighters Cody Gibney, left, and Kim Hunter, right, both from Prineville, Ore., mop up the Biscuit fire near Agness, Ore., on Sunday. The blaze has blackened more than 435,000 acres and is the largest in Oregon in a century. JOHN GRESS/Associated Press |
By JOHN ENDERS Associated Press
Thousands working to gain ground on state's worst blaze in a century
AGNESS, Ore. - Things had calmed down a bit along Oak Flat and the nearby town of Agness, a resort and fishing village on southern Oregon's Rogue River. Homeowners, told to evacuate Thursday, were watching the glow of a massive wildfire burning nearby, hoping for the best.
Then the fire exploded.
Within an hour Saturday afternoon, the northwest flank of the fire blew up, raising huge billowing white and brown plumes of smoke 20,000 to 30,000 feet into the air. The "thwop, thwop, thwop" of heavy-lift helicopters filled the normally placid skies above the river.
People grew increasingly nervous by the hour.
"Normally, it's pretty stress-free living," said Gayle Soule, owner of the Old Agness Store.
"When you go to sleep at night and you hear helicopters, and fire trucks ..." Soule said, her voice trailing off.
These days, stress has filled the lives of those in the path of Oregon's Biscuit fire, the largest wildfire in the state in a century and the largest fire burning in North America.
By Sunday, 435,654 acres had burned and more than 6,500 people were fighting the blaze, including 470 Canadians, 39 Australians and nine fire managers from New Zealand. The fire was 35 percent contained.
Crews gained ground on the fire's northwestern flank Sunday as they finished burning a fire line around Agness. With good wind conditions holding, they were expected to next conduct burnouts along the fire's western side near Pistol River and Gardner Ranch, where residents were under a pre-evacuation notice, fire officials said.
The flames have been eating through the forests of southwest Oregon since July 13 when a lightning storm moved through the area. Officially, the blaze is known as the Biscuit Fire, but some residents have taken to calling it "the Beast."
The fire has burned over much of the Kalmiopsis Wilderness Area in the Siskiyou National Forest and into northwest California, and it is now threatening homes and businesses in Agness, Ilahe, Oak Flat, upper Pistol River, upper Chetco River, Cave Junction, O'Brien and Selma.
Sunday, it was one of about two dozen major active fires burning in the West. More than 5.7 million acres have burned this summer, and the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Oregon have suffered their biggest wildfires on record, according to fire information officer Peter D'Aquanni.
He said predictions of slightly lower temperatures and higher humidity could keep the Biscuit fire from kicking up and help firefighters into the week.
Residents, meanwhile, waited to see if they would have to abandon their homes to the flames over the weekend. About a dozen helicopters buzzed in the air overhead, dumping fire retardant and water.
A half-mile up the road, 40-year old Shawn O'Connor raked and gathered pine needles and other burnable materials from the land around her home. She had been doing the same thing regularly for three weeks.
"Nobody in our neighborhood is leaving" O'Connor said. "We're just kind of waiting to see."
If the fire gets too close, O'Connor will grab her 13-year old son and a neighbor and head out.
She and her neighbors are watching the fire "in a state of controlled hysteria," she said. They also watch the wind, which had picked up but was blowing upstream, away from their houses. They wait. Sometimes wind is a friend; sometimes it's your worst adversary.
"When you feel the wind, you don't know whether to be glad or scared," O'Connor said.
"I can't blame the fire. It's just what happens. You pay your money, you takes your chances," said John Lighty, 68, who lives with his wife, Merilee, in a house on Oak Flat Road several miles from Agness.
Their home is one of two closest to the fire, which is burning toward them about a mile away.
The house is older, and has a shake wood roof and siding, a wood deck and dense trees and shrubs all around. One forester describes it as "indefensible."
"If it's going to burn down," Merilee Lighty says, "I wish it'd hurry up and do it."
On the Net
National Interagency Fire Center: www.nifc.gov
Biscuit fire: www.biscuitfire.com
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