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How a 'Hillbilly Brigade' saved an Oregon town from raging wildfires
Yahoo News ^ | September 17, 2020 | Brad Brooks, Reuters

Posted on 09/21/2020 10:34:43 AM PDT by Twotone

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1 posted on 09/21/2020 10:34:43 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: PROCON; VeryFRank; Clinging Bitterly; Rio; aimhigh; Hieronymus; bray; 1malumprohibitum; Tailback; ..
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2 posted on 09/21/2020 10:35:19 AM PDT by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
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These, these are my people


3 posted on 09/21/2020 10:35:45 AM PDT by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen)
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Dog’s name is Oink.

I’m stealing that idea.


4 posted on 09/21/2020 10:36:35 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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Governor Kate Brown saluted the ad-hoc brigades of Molalla at a news conference on Thursday, saying fire commanders had acknowledged the "real heroes" as being the "local community members, the majority of them volunteers, who worked tirelessly to save their community."

I'm surprised she didn't condemn them for taking matters into their own hands.

5 posted on 09/21/2020 10:40:09 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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RSG(Sanders Wood Products) in Molalla lost their Hem/fir log deck and some yard equipment during this fire. They were very lucky the whole sawmill did not burn to the ground.


6 posted on 09/21/2020 10:40:39 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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Ok, Hillbilly Brigade. All a f’n joke and hee haw to ya, right Brooks?

Brooks, you haven’t figured out your commie Pussy Brigade will gut you like a hog. But laugh it up.


7 posted on 09/21/2020 10:42:34 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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8 posted on 09/21/2020 10:49:51 AM PDT by nwrep
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The enviro police will come along to fine them once the media spotlight is off these men and women.


9 posted on 09/21/2020 10:57:52 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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Kinda like the Cajun Navy.


10 posted on 09/21/2020 10:58:06 AM PDT by ryderann
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These are the REAL Oregonians!


11 posted on 09/21/2020 10:58:13 AM PDT by Rio
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That’s a good one. I have a cow-dog named “moo.”


12 posted on 09/21/2020 10:58:41 AM PDT by Rio
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hillbilly hero bump.


13 posted on 09/21/2020 11:03:03 AM PDT by exnavy (american by birth and choice, I love this country!)
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What the media, government and big city know-it-all’s don’t understand is that this self-reliance, teamwork and initiative is more the rule than the exception in flyover country.


14 posted on 09/21/2020 11:10:03 AM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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I’m surprised they haven’t been arrested?!


15 posted on 09/21/2020 11:34:06 AM PDT by Professional
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The governor needs to realize that some Oregonians want to put out fires instead of setting them, and respond accordingly.


16 posted on 09/21/2020 11:37:11 AM PDT by dirtboy
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I gotta read more carefully.....I would have sworn the title read “Hillary Brigade” and was going to demand the title be labelled with a “barf alert”!


17 posted on 09/21/2020 11:40:09 AM PDT by traderrob6
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“Kinda like the Cajun Navy.”

I live outside of Mobile. Went to town the other day and there were boats, travel trailers, and utility trailers staged in the parking lot of a vacant strip mall. Pretty sure they were at least part of the Cajun Navy. Those guys are something else. Apparently they use their own time, money, and equipment to perform rescues in relatively dangerous and definitely uncomfortable environments. Real heroes.


18 posted on 09/21/2020 11:46:20 AM PDT by suthener
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Be still, my beating heart.


19 posted on 09/21/2020 1:09:22 PM PDT by Eagles6
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NOT GUILTY!

It is so hot there, and then there’s the fire too.


20 posted on 09/21/2020 1:26:10 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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