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Environment & Energy

2naSalit

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5. That's not good...

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Mon Jul 13, 2015, 09:18 PM

Jul 2015

Bad enough that the peat in Siberia and now Alaska are burning up. My neighbor, a retired smokejumper whose home I tend to in his absence, has been in Alaska for weeks now as an IC and a good number of our folks at the local smokerjumper base are in Alaska. Probably get reassigned to that location before the summer is over. Glad we're getting unusually regular rain here though in between the rain it gets dangerously dry.

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The West is so dry even a rain forest is on fire [View all] n2doc Jul 2015 OP

That's too bad. I remember it as one of the more beautiful places Cleita Jul 2015 #1

My friend Tom was a hotshot crew member for several years. randys1 Jul 2015 #2

I helped a fire crew battle a small blaze one summer afternoon. . . Journeyman Jul 2015 #3

Yeah, I worked for the CCC's back in the day, and that kind of work is crazy hard. randys1 Jul 2015 #4

That's not good... 2naSalit Jul 2015 #5

that is terrible. and I heard today that denver firefighters are going to canada to niyad Jul 2015 #6