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FIRE CONTROL: HOW NOT TO BURN DOWN THE HOUSE

Fire control is not this man’s strong point. Not mine or my neighbor’s either. Two out of the three of us caught things on fire, and this guy’s next.

SANTIAM PASS: FIRE AFTERMATH PHOTO ESSAY

A Santiam Pass fire isn’t finished when the last flames are out. There’s the environmental clean-up. Then restoration. They bring out the manpower and big rigs for the work. Imagine what it looked like during the fire based on what it looks like now. Is terrifying too much? I don’t think so because it jumped […]

WHAT I LEARNED BY STARTING A RANGE FIRE

Like how to put it out. During a high school sports trip a team in two vans drove through Wyoming. If memory serves, Wyoming was the closest state to Oregon selling fun fireworks like bottle rockets and firecrackers after a lifetime of sparklers and Piccolo Petes. Since we were high school guys in both vans, […]

FIRE ON THE HIGHWAY

(Inspired by Marshall Tucker’s Fire on the Mountain)   Left my family on my Arizona land Drove to Oregon with a loosely laid plan Winter’s cold there and life is hard Sometimes I wish I was in my sweet desert yard   Now there’s fire on the highway One man laying dead We tried to […]

BOOMER ROCK HISTORY IN FIVE SONGS, pt. 1

1. I FOUGHT THE LAW by the Bobby Fuller Four. This is what you listen to after you’re banned from the biggest shopping center on the coast between Seattle and San Francisco. When a misunderstanding about how ‘that’ got into your pocket results in going home while your friends go to the mall, the only […]