-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Thank you - fire update

Best of wishes to you too Rose.  I love that area you live in!
   Regards from

 Bob -- the "Keyboard Cowboy",
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    Cincinnati, Ohio
 Scottsdale, Arizona
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On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 01:00:48 -0700, Tech Rose - LoveBytes wrote:
  | I do believe international prayers in many religions help.
  |
  | It is things like this, that band common folk together world wide
  | rather than looking for differences.
  |
  | I too am glad things are looking better.  Although I am hundreds
  | of miles away, we too have our fires here in the Las Vegas
  | Valley.  While they are not near our home, the air and smoke was
  | so bad yesterday!   We could not even see the mountains which are
  | things we always see as we walk outdoors. It was a bit better
  | today.
  |
  | Since we both have emphysema, this news almost panics me.  We do
  | have oxygen at home and try to keep the doors and windows as
  | tightly closed as possible.
  |
  | The fires here, while not as large as in AZ are burning terribly.
  |  The major road to Pahrump has been closed most of the day and
  | parts of previous days. This is not a large town, it is about 50+
  | miles away, but it is hard for them with the fire.
  |
  | I will continue my prayers for good outcomes ...for the
  | firefighters and everyone and all the animals too!
  |
  | Rose
  | Las Vegas
  | ----- Original Message -----
  | From: "Keyboard Cowboy" <KBCowboy@xxxxxxxxx>
  | To: "!Keyboard Cowboy Group Send" <KeyboardCowboyGroupSend@>
  | Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 10:13 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=-
  | Thank you - fire update
  |
  |
  | Just an update for everyone on the BarB-Q (brush fires) out
  | here..... First, thanks to many of you for the kind wishes and
  | concern.  It's nice to know so many were concerned.
  | Thursday it was like being in a war zone.  The smoke was so think
  | thaty visibility was next to nothing.  A few of the residents of
  | Desert Mountain were evacuated, anbd all construction crews were
  | sent home and told not to work until Monday.  The tanker planes
  | and helicopters flew constantly, it was quite a sight!  Probably
  | the most frustration came from the fact that even though I'm a
  | firefighter........I had to sit back and watch.  I wanted to get
  | in the frey!!!  Having to smell smoke all day and do nothing is
  | like holding a twinkie in front of a dieter!
  |
  | On Friday, there were shuttle flights over the new house every 10
  | minutes or so.  The helicopters flew so close you could feel the
  | wump-wump-wump of the rotors.  While I didn't serve in Vietnam, I
  | have a better understanding of what it might have been like near
  | a helicopter base there.
  |
  | The fires in the immediate area of the new house are out.  It's
  | not so good, locally and in other parts of Arizona.  The Arizona
  | Republic said that 154,000 acres burned this week alone, taxing
  | the state fire resources.
  |
  | I also saw many, many fire trucks from neigboring areas.  The
  | paper says there were nearly 800 outside firefighters in the Cave
  | Creek fire.  Let me tell you, these guys worked their A**es off.
  | The temperature was in the high ninties all week.  I also saw the
  | caravan of equipment for the Indian jump crew.....it was pretty
  | neat!  Cave Creek is very near where we have the new home -- it's
  | about 4 miles North of our home in The Boulders, and just East of
  | the new house in desert Mountain.  There were actually several
  | fires going at the same time here...adding to the complexity.
  | The Cave Creek fire burned 60,145 acres and fire crews are still
  | working it.  It's consumed 11 houses and 3 outbuildings in the
  | Tonto area (very close to the new home).  The thing that really
  | saved our situationn from being even worse was that we got rain
  | Thursday night.
  |
  | Life is almost back to normal........the sun shone bright today
  | and visibility was great.  It's hard to imagine that two days ago
  | I watched fires burning ground material a quarter mile up the
  | mountain behind the new house.
  |
  | God is good..........thank you all again for all your good wishes.
  |
  | Regards,
  |
  | Bob  <=== You're imbedded reporter from the fireground ,,,,,,,,
  | Ô¿Ô¬
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