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There is more to that mess...USFS fire fighters got going the wrong way and went 180 degrees away from a fire in Oregon last summer. Finally they got turned around and got to the area of the fire.
In the meantime, the local ranchers were doing everything they could to help the endangered buildings on ranches. When the USFS arrived, the ranchers were hosing down the roof on a ranch house with the ranchers water. The ff had a hissy fit that such actions were being taken WITHOUT their permission and the ranchers told them this was the house of a widowed 80 year old woman. They apparently told the ff what they could do with their belated input. This attitude of the employees of the USFS, IMO, comes from the enviros infiltrating into these jobs, and making their own decisions regardless of common sense and what needs to be done to save the house of an 80 y/o woman.

When my husband was in forestry school (30 years ago) there were a lot of hippie enviro's in the forestry program with him. They were saying they were going to "take over the USFS from within".