tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6593309288468455857.post3474036664322592802..comments2023-09-11T14:31:26.290-07:00Comments on FOREST ARMY: After the Sacrifice: A Grim and Dismal BusinessUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6593309288468455857.post-12280563701373968162013-07-27T13:15:50.403-07:002013-07-27T13:15:50.403-07:00Thank you for visiting Forest Army, Aaron, and for...Thank you for visiting Forest Army, Aaron, and for your thoughtful comments regarding this post. Unfortunately, I'm afraid you've missed the focus of my comparison between Blackwater and Yarnell Hill. The post is meant to highlight what happens after tragedies of this type. I think you'll agree there is a stark difference between the canvas wrapped corpses draped across pack horses at Blackwater and the flag-draped body bags photographed after Yarnell Hill. I was not making a comparison between the fires themselves.<br /><br />I have a portion of the Rock Creek Fire report that I obtained at the National Archives and Records facility in Denver earlier this year and I think you are right that it's time I posted information about that event as well. I won't likely do so as a comparison between fire events or fire behaviors though since I'm not an expert in fire fighting or fire behavior. <br /><br />Thank you again for visiting and for posting comments; I hope that my clarification will help put the post in better context and I sincerely hope that you'll continue to check back here and at the CCC Resource Page.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05980508376512022350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6593309288468455857.post-32217799736084537732013-07-26T23:23:35.168-07:002013-07-26T23:23:35.168-07:00It might be more appropriate to consider finding s...It might be more appropriate to consider finding some historical information, even the investigation report, of the Rock Ck Fire of 1939. Like the Yarnell fire, it appears that the Rock Ck fire fatalities (5 CCC members) were killed as a result of a storm causing a sudden, violent wind-change over the fire area. <br /><br />As that is what happened at Yarnell (and in the Dude fire in the same area 23 years earlier), it is probably appropriate to examine that tragedy - more so than the much better known Blackwater Fire of 1937. It would help make the point that the effect of storms on fires, especially on days of high fire danger, is known and all too often predicted in advance. <br /><br />Lest we forgetAaron Troy Smallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17400242374316268955noreply@blogger.com