Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thought I would pass these along to interested parties with the sobering = question could this happen in Arizona? Under the drought conditions we = are experiencing and without awareness of the problems created the = answer is, yes it could! I may be mistaken, but I have yet to read or = hear anything about this somber event in Arizona media so I have taken = it upon myself to send this to the Tucson, Flagstaff and Phoenix = newspapers. In my opinion, we do need to make the general public aware = of the fire dangers to our many observatories here in Arizona and the = need for caution. =20 Charles Crawford President=20 Earth/Space Scientific Research Institute, Inc. ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Peter Wehinger=20 To: Marvin Kleine ; Stephen Tegler ; Maria Womack=20 Cc: Rod Heyd ; Aaron Smith ; Chuck Crawford=20 Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 10:15 AM Subject: Fw: Pictures of the fire at Mount Stromlo Observatory Hi All - =20 Attached is a set of photos of the fire storm last Saturday, (18 = January) at Mt. Stromlo.taken by Matthew Colless. As you can imagine, = here at Steward Observatory we view these tragic events in a sober = manner for we have come close to such disaster with the forest fires = last summer. =20 Regards,=20 - Peter=20 http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/colless/StromloFire/=20 Peter A. Wehinger Director's Office, Steward Observatory The University of Arizona 933 N. Cherry Avenue Tucson, Arizona 85721-0065, USA Phone: 520-621-7662 or 615-7731 Fax: 520-621-7852 http://www.as.arizona.edu -- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Ecartis -- -- Type: application/octet-stream -- File: Pictures of the fire at Mount Stromlo Observatory.url -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.