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To: JohnHuang2
Neither Largent nor Tolhurst could recall the name of the incident commander who was in overall control of the fire-fighting operation. It was Kim Martin, who has been transferred to another fire.

How convenient. Get her out of the area before she is lynched and soon it will be forgotten.

From SierraTimes (Who beat Worldnet Daily by about 5 days with this story)

Anglo Gold had already arranged with Ames Construction of Denver to move the bulldozers to the base camp at Lake George. Special trailers for moving them had been driven to Colorado -- one from Utah, the other from Kansas. Anglo Gold and Ames Construction were splitting the $5,000 cost of transporting the dozers to Lake George.

The dozers pulled into Lake George on Thursday afternoon, accompanied by a bevy of heavy equipment operators from the mine who were ready to run the equipment 24 hours a day and cut a firebreak from Lake George to Divide, then over to Woodland Park. The men figured they could cut a 35' wide firebreak for 20 miles through the forest in about a week. And they were offering to do this at no cost to the government. They just wanted to help.

Incredibly, the U.S. Forest Service turned them down. Kim Martin, the Incident Commander for the Forest Service, told Ron "The equipment is too heavy. It will tear up the land."

11 posted on 06/27/2002 9:15:30 AM PDT by hattend
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To: hattend
Get her him out of the area before she is lynched and soon it will be forgotten.

Oops, my bad.

12 posted on 06/27/2002 9:20:35 AM PDT by hattend
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To: hattend
Ron "The equipment is too heavy. It will tear up the land."

What the F!

What else do they think their chemicals are doing? How else do they think a fire is fought?

WHAT ARE THEY WORSHIPING? THE LAND god?????


17 posted on 06/27/2002 10:58:05 AM PDT by lavaroise
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From SierraTimes (Who beat Worldnet Daily by about 5 days with this story)

That story from 'Sierra Times' got posted here, and has some additional comments.

23 posted on 06/27/2002 12:45:27 PM PDT by brityank
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To: hattend
Just shows you what a DA this guy is. Almost ALL dozers only have a 6 or 7 psi contact with the ground no matter what size they are. The bigger the machine the more track -more track spreads the weight. Congrates to Sierra Times for breaking this story!

This performance by the Feds is criminal and should be punished.

31 posted on 06/27/2002 1:34:27 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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