The fire that burned down the Santiam canyon wiping out Detroit has been burning and smoldering in the wilderness for the last couple weeks.Lightning caused..The forest service was keeping a eye on it,but not much else.. A couple air drops could have stopped it then .
Even with the east wind forecast they sat on their hands.. They pretty much ignore the wilderness fires..
The winds hit and it went from 50 acres to 500 in a blink of a eye and then it was to late..Then it didn't take long to get to 50,000 and so on..That fire could have been prevented..
If that's a Fed wilderness, there's not much they can do except send in hand crews.
Hands are pretty much tied by rules and regs as I understand it.
Maybe they need to adapt some of those regs? Maybe folks that live in the "interface" with the woods need to start cutting some trees around their houses too?
Maybe there needs to be some sort of "buffer" around wilderness areas if they aren't going to fight fires in them? Big firebreaks?
I agree though, that fire could have been addressed a few weeks back.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
