On Jun 30, 2013, at 10:46 PM, John D <[email protected]> wrote: > > Half mile per hour is the pace of a leisurely walk and even carrying > equipment (which they would certainly have discarded upon realizing such > imminent danger) these hotshots should have had no trouble getting out.
That half-mile and hour is not constant; fires can race uphill faster than an unencumbered man can run. The newspaper article in today's paper was sketchy on the details of the terrain, but as far as I have found they got caught by a sudden shift in the wind; these were all locals, they knew the terrain well. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
