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Once again here is some fire information about the
Rodeo fire in Arizona.
The link below is a CNN article posted today, the
photo is the remains of my family home in Pinedale. I did an interview with
Mattingly yesterday, but do not know if it aired on CNN yet.
I grew up from 1985 to 1991 in the town of Pinedale
Arizona. Tiny town, only about 200 people. A little larger now, but not
much. I loved it there, and have many fond memories of that house. It was
one of the first homes to burn in the fire when it overran the town on Thursday
June 20. I was in Europe with Jim Strope and when I got the news about the fire,
I was going crazy for the rest of the trip. Many of my friends have been burned
out. I took my sister Kim out there yesterday and she was crying most of the
time. It used to be beautiful green forest, Ponderosa Pines, the largest stand
of this tree in the world, stretching from west of Flagstaff into New Mexico.
Now in the area that fir burned, (Almost the same size as the entire state of
Rhode Island), there is mostly burned twigs, moonscape we call it, black and
white ash. Little else remains.
I toured a place called Timberland Acres this
morning, I was one of the first people in there. It is a large area of mountains
and roads with homes scattered all about, now looks like a horror movie after a
Nuclear bomb blast, few trees, mostly rubble piles that used to be homes. Large
homes.
I knew the area like the back of my hand, now with
everything burned, I could hardly find my way around.
My sister is fine, scared for a
week, but ok, but so much destroyed, the road from Show Low to Forest Lakes is
50 miles, ALL of it burned, 5 towns in between partly or mostly burned.
Mike Farmer
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