On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 14:13, Scott Wood wrote:
> As a former forest fire fighter I am anxious to get up there after 
> everything is safe and see what the extent of the fire really it.  All we 
> have to go buy is media reports and there has been some contradictions in 
> the media about it.

Not to downplay anything, but I usually find that the news tends to blow
everything waaaaaaaaaaaay out of proportion.   I know that I moved to
the San Francisco area just after that huge earth quake that they had
about 14-15 years ago, and from the news you would swear that all of san
francisco was in flames and had colapsed.  The bridges had colapsed and
squashed about 1/4 the population of the city and it would be decades
before everything was back in order.  The entire US start sending
billions of dollars worth of aid, and when I got there, yes one little
section of one little bridge had collapsed and one snall neighborhood
had gotten a decent amount of damage and like 2 houses had burned down
completely....  now I'm sure there was probably a lot of other damage
that wasn't obvious, but nothing even close to the way that the news had
painted it, and they definatly didn't need all the aid money that got
sent there.
Anyway, I tend to avoid the news all together these days.  They want to
over sensationalize everything so that you get rivited to the screen. 
Death, destruction, starvation, murder, rape, terrorists.... and always
an arizona tie in no matter where in the world it's coming from.

I'll make up my own mind about things when I see them for myself.

Brian Cluff
Team Snaptek