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  • Oregon Firefighters Injured and forced to deploy emergency fire shelters

    07/25/2002 10:14:49 AM PDT · by Grampa Dave · 60 replies · 797+ views
    Oregon Live/ AP ^ | 25 July 2002 | Jeff Barnard
    Firefighters forced to deploy emergency shelters By JEFF BARNARD The Associated Press 7/25/02 11:36 AM BEND, Ore. (AP) -- Flames overran a 20-person crew battling Oregon's biggest wildfire, forcing them to deploy their emergency shelters. Eleven firefighters were treated for minor burns and smoke inhalation and released from a hospital here. They returned to fire camp at 3 a.m. Thursday, said David Widmark, spokesman for the Northwest Interagency Fire Coordination Center. The firefighters were members of a contract crew known as Ferguson 53 from somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, hired by the U.S. Forest Service to fight the Tool Box...
  • Chainsaw Tom [Daschle]

    07/25/2002 3:01:54 AM PDT · by The Raven · 55 replies · 624+ views
    Wall St. Journal ^ | July 25, 2002 | Editorial
    <p>The fallout from this year's forest fires is accomplishing wonders -- such as the sight of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle running into the protective arms of the Republican-controlled Forest Service. Quick, someone get water to revive the Sierra Club.</p>