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07-01-2013, 06:16 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 460
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T&P x 19
Just saw the news about the 19 ff that lost a battle vs wildfire in AZ. Takes a special breed of human to do that line of work.
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I LOVE it when MY WIFE lets me fish
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07-01-2013, 06:29 AM
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My brother is bald
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Parts Unknown
Posts: 4,516
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TandPs sent
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07-01-2013, 06:55 AM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
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One entire crew was wiped out, truly an enormous tragedy
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07-01-2013, 07:25 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Pembroke
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A sad loss of 19 talented, fearless individuals. T&P for their families.
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07-01-2013, 07:33 AM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
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Hugely unfortunate. 19 of 20 that run to the fire.
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07-01-2013, 08:14 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
Posts: 21,692
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Such a tragedy
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07-01-2013, 08:18 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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setting new records on heat out west
so sad to see the news this morning
if you've never seen the whole vast hillside with smoke behind it
it's a very chilling experience ....i can tell you .....from seeing it.
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07-01-2013, 08:22 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Raven
setting new records on heat out west
so sad to see the news this morning
if you've never seen the whole vast hillside with smoke behind it
it's a very chilling experience ....i can tell you .....from seeing it.
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I was in Colorado last summer and saw some serious fires one was right in the town I was in. It's so surreal.
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07-01-2013, 08:25 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 10,295
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Sad.
Outside mag. had an article last month on one of the crews.
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07-01-2013, 09:27 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Somerset Ma
Posts: 1,812
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God bless them! I have seen a lot of crazy stuff in the fire service but these guys have brass sinkers.....I will stick to burning buildings. Thoughts and prayers to the family and their fire service brothers.
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07-01-2013, 10:16 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Kingston, Ma
Posts: 2,294
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Sad
Hope striper haven 03 wasnt one of em
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07-01-2013, 11:55 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Easton, MA
Posts: 5,737
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Quote:
Originally Posted by redlite
Sad
Hope striper haven 03 wasnt one of em
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That was my first thought. I'm pretty sure he travels out west every summer to fight the fires. Hope he's ok. T&P's to the familes and friends of the brave men killed in AZ. |
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07-01-2013, 10:16 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Buxton, Maine
Posts: 1,727
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Wildfires are nothing nice. They crown over you ,suck up all the oxygen then burn all below in a giant flash over.No way out and no place to go.
We lost a bunch of very brave fire fighters. Sad.
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07-01-2013, 10:29 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hyde Park, MA
Posts: 4,152
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Building fires are bad enough for firemen to have to endure, but wild fires are a beast that truly bites back. Even with their "survival" equipment they are at the mercy of the fire.
I can't say from personal experience, but those that have had the experience can only explain it as having the air sucked out of your lungs as the fire rushes over you.
They are truly a breed abover the rest, and God bless them all!
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07-01-2013, 12:06 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 3,595
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God Bless
T&P sent
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07-01-2013, 12:12 PM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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Oh my God! T & P.
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No boat, back in the suds.  
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07-01-2013, 12:18 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,463
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These guys were an elite unit as well. Crazy...that's got to be one of the hardest jobs on earth. RIP.
-spence
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07-01-2013, 12:54 PM
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Annisquam Assassin
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Peabody, MA
Posts: 669
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saw this last night, early this morning, about 2am. Horrible. Largest loss of FF since 9/11. Thought's and prayers....and my thanks and respect.
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Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. ~Paul Schullery
There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965
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07-01-2013, 01:06 PM
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President - S-B Chapter - Kelly Clarkson Fan Club
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Rowley
Posts: 3,781
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just tragic, these poor families. T&Ps with them all.
amazing, they even set up their fire shelters and it wasn't enough, must have been a mother of a fire
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07-01-2013, 07:15 PM
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Callinectes sapidus
Join Date: Oct 2001
Posts: 6,277
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rockport24
just tragic, these poor families. T&Ps with them all.
amazing, they even set up their fire shelters and it wasn't enough, must have been a mother of a fire
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Can't imagine the feeling of hiding or in this case, trapping yourself in this shelter only to have it fail due to the extreme temp/flames...I pray that God helps their families through this. |
 ... it finally happened, there are no more secret spots
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07-02-2013, 09:33 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 42
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TRUE HERO'S..... all my best!
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