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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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posted on
09/21/2020 10:34:43 AM PDT
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Twotone
To: PROCON; VeryFRank; Clinging Bitterly; Rio; aimhigh; Hieronymus; bray; 1malumprohibitum; Tailback; ..
If you would like more information about whats happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.
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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.)
To: Twotone
These, these are my people
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posted on
09/21/2020 10:35:45 AM PDT
by
Persevero
(I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen)
To: Twotone
Dog’s name is Oink.
I’m stealing that idea.
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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")
To: Twotone
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.
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09/21/2020 10:40:09 AM PDT
by
AlaskaErik
(In time of peace, prepare for war.)
To: Persevero
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.
To: Twotone
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.
To: Twotone
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posted on
09/21/2020 10:49:51 AM PDT
by
nwrep
To: AlaskaErik
The enviro police will come along to fine them once the media spotlight is off these men and women.
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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.)
To: Twotone
Kinda like the Cajun Navy.
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posted on
09/21/2020 10:58:06 AM PDT
by
ryderann
To: Twotone
These are the REAL Oregonians!
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posted on
09/21/2020 10:58:13 AM PDT
by
Rio
To: Eccl 10:2
That’s a good one. I have a cow-dog named “moo.”
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posted on
09/21/2020 10:58:41 AM PDT
by
Rio
To: Twotone
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posted on
09/21/2020 11:03:03 AM PDT
by
exnavy
(american by birth and choice, I love this country!)
To: Twotone
What the media, government and big city know-it-alls dont understand is that this self-reliance, teamwork and initiative is more the rule than the exception in flyover country.
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posted on
09/21/2020 11:10:03 AM PDT
by
caseinpoint
(Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
To: Twotone
I’m surprised they haven’t been arrested?!
To: AlaskaErik
The governor needs to realize that some Oregonians want to put out fires instead of setting them, and respond accordingly.
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09/21/2020 11:37:11 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: Twotone
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”!
To: ryderann
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.
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posted on
09/21/2020 11:46:20 AM PDT
by
suthener
To: nwrep
Be still, my beating heart.
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posted on
09/21/2020 1:09:22 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
To: nwrep
NOT GUILTY!
It is so hot there, and then there’s the fire too.
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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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