Saw Mill Road (Matt): Lots of smoke from backburns. Spoke to a firefighter, he said they have backburned all the foothills from one end to the other from back of flat top to 260 and they have dozer lines that are very wide. No houses lost that he knew of, and, he said, basically no fuel left to burn but the trees. With no wind, which there is none right now BTW, it wouldn’t get into the trees. Just heard they may lift evacuations by tomorrow. That’d be great! No one around here (firefighters) seem to have any concern over South Eagar anymore, they say the outlook is great. Thanks to them for all they’ve done!
Dome (Tom): Night crews had said good progress was made last night on back burns and structure protection, they just hope the weather holds for a few more days.
26-Bar (Jordan): They have back burned along the south side of town and southwest. last night they back burned everything behind 26 bar ranch which is west of my house. Since the nights kinda kill the wind they back burn along the edges of town. Im pretty sure we ll be ok unless some crazy wind picks up. There are fire fighters patroling every where checking for spot fires.
Quote from Larry Sherwood | 10 June 2011
I wouldn’t usually post this on here, but this is a very respected man in the community, knows a whole lot more about the land then I do, and probably could outwork me for sure!
From Katie Davis Hunt on Facebook – I’ll take that 91 year old green thumbed man’s advice whose family brought the first saw mill to the white mountains!
“All things that grow have to be harvested, and will be one way or another! I’ve been telling those sons of bi%@$ that my whole life. . . How in the world did the forest ever live without the forest service?”
– Larry E. Sherwood