Naah! As usual when fires like these happen in remote areas as a result of the Green Eco Terrorism Agendas, there is a spiking of the fire news by the Green oriented and controlled mediots.
In 1999 there was a massive out of control fire east of Eureka, where Tubebender lives. The area was isolated and there was no news down here in the Bay Area.
There had been a terrific high wind/loads of rain winter storm in December 1995. This knocked down thousands of trees over 100,000+ acre area. The good foresters said that the fallen trees needed to be cleaned asap in 1996 to prevent a future fire hazard.
Congress actually budgeted enough money to clear out the fallen trees.
The enviral whackos and their ACLU lawyers got into action and no removal of the dead trees happened. The Green enviral scumbags pocketed money and the trees laid there.
Then in August of 1999 the fire started in this tinder box area. This was during the time that the Forestry Service became the Florist Service under Babbit and Clintoon.
They threw a news black out. circled the fires and held hands while chanting Druid hymnals. The fires burned until the fall rains started.
The Indian tribes threw the Florist Service people off their reservations or banned them. They had to fight the fires to save their homes and businesses.
We knew nothing of this fire until we drove from the Wine Country to Brookings in September for our annual SW Oregon visit. I saw the smoke in Eureka and north as we started down the hill on 101 to approach the Eureka metro area. I comment to my wife that there was a big fire some where. She laughed as she had not heard about it via her news programs.
Thirty minutes later, she was not laughing as we drove by electronic signs warning about the severe smoke for the next 80 to 100 miles.
The Floristry Service has been playing games on this fire. The Kali Services have zero updates on the Biscuit Fire and other fires. The Oregon Florist Service people called the fire the Florence Fire. This was a deliberate ruse to mislead Oregonians and others to where the fire was.
They did not want to say that the Kamiliopis Wilderness Area was blazing and that nothing was being done during the first week to stop it.
Now that doing nothing has resulted in 17,000 people being at risk. A couple of days ago, they got serious and moved in with the bull dozers and called in the huge helicopter with water buckets.
Has any major news outlet in Portland actually said that the Kamiliopis Wilderness is burning up? Or are they still calling it the Florence Fire to mislead the sheeple in Portland?
However, in 2002, we have the internet, Free Republic and Fox News to get the word out.