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My faith in the National Forest Service has been severely damaged after they burned my parents' home down this summer. They set a back burn near a residential a
by hermitdev 9y ago
My faith in the National Forest Service has been severely damaged after they burned my parents' home down this summer. They set a back burn near a residential area to combat the Lolo Peak fire that started in the Bitteroot National Forest only to sit there and watch my parents' house burn. They set the fire and did nothing to protect the house (or the neighbors) once it crossed their fire line.
- space_fountain 9y agoThis is going to sound terrible, but it sounds like that may have been a needed sacrifice to prevent damage to others homes. Your parents house would have just been destroyed by the forest fire instead if they hadn't done anything. Did they let the back burner get out of control or something?
- sliverstorm 9y agoDid your parents' home follow all the rules of defensible space? http://www.readyforwildfire.org/Defensible-Space/ http://www.readyforwildfire.org/Defensible-Space/ Ignoring it is an easy way to get wildland firefighters around here to abandon your home in an instant. They refuse to waste their time fighting a totally lost cause.