Trisha, my thanks to you and everyone else who responded so quickly and with such force to this fire. My folks are retired in Prescott, and live on Copper Basin Road, which is the South evacuation line. They could see the flames from their driveway last night. Luckily, the fire seems to be pushed back and things are much better tonight. I think a great, overwhelming response minimized the fire loss to only a few homes and no loss of life. It could easily have been so much worse. THANK YOU! BTW, to everyone else, this fire was apparently started by campers, despite signs and fines regarding campfires. The Prescott community is asking for a closure to the Prescott Natl forest until the fire danger decreases. No decisions yet, but I suspect this is a real possibility. This is only May, and the drought conditions show no relief in site. Hopefully this may/will only apply to overnight camping, but something to be aware of. Rob Team CHUMP -----Original Message----- From: trisha@brasher.com [mailto:trisha@brasher.com] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 22:05 To: listserv@azgeocaching.com Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] fire Report from Prescott: Yup, Quartz Mtn is not only archived, it is toast. The entire Mtn (sad) I am working 12 on 12 off communications for evac/patrols/security thru the Jeep Posse/Sheriff office. National Guard even called in today, (and I met Gov. Hull.) Please pray the wind will remain calm, it is the only thing that saved us from losing more homes today. Trisha "Lightning" On Wed, 15 May 2002, "WOLFB8" wrote > > so how many caches do you all think we will loose to fire this year. Sounds > like the indian fire has already claimed a few already > > _______________________________________________ > Az-Geocaching mailing list > listserv@azgeocaching.com > http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > > Arizona's Geocaching Resource > http://www.azgeocaching.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching Arizona's Geocaching Resource http://www.azgeocaching.com