Rescued wolf pups to find home
The five abandoned wolf pups that were rescued by firefighters on the Funny River Fire on March 27 are doing well and will be adopted by the Minnesota Zoo, located south of Minneapolis-St. Paul in Apple Valley, Minnesota. The pups will remain at the Alaska Zoo until veterinarians are certain the animals are old and healthy enough for transport. When found last week, they weighed about 2.5 pounds apiece and suffered from dehydration and punctures from porcupine quills.
Thirty five applicants awarded funding for their fire research projects
The Joint Fire Science Program announced that 35 applicants have received funding for their proposed fire-related research. The topics include smoke, fuels treatment effectiveness, fire behavior and effects, bats and fire, people and fire, and more.
Fire Training in Pennsylvania
Over 200 personnel attend our fire crew training this past weekend #pafire #wildfire pic.twitter.com/9FzZcLaXBo
— PA Wildfire News (@penn_fire) June 2, 2014
New York Times obituary for Robert Sallee
On May 29 we wrote about the death of Robert Sallee, the last survivor of the 1949 Mann Gulch Fire, and later we linked to some rare photos of the incident.
Surprisingly, the New York Times on May 31 published an obituary of Mr. Sallee. John N. Maclean pointed it out to us, saying that he learned some things from the article. After the death of his father, Norman Maclean, John helped to edit the almost finished Young Men and Fire, the book his father wrote about the fire. John later wrote several books of his own about wildland fires, the latest being The Esperanza Fire.
Below is another photo related to the fire. It was taken in Mann Gulch by Alan Thomas, who was the editor at the University of Chicago Press who worked on Young Men and Fire with the Macleans.
Colorado Fire Chief talks about how climate change has affected his job — and his life
The video below features Elk Creek, Colorado fire chief Bill McLaughlin, whose department fought the Lower North Fork Fire in 2012 that killed three residents and burned 4,140 acres. “Climate change is very real,” says McLaughlin. “It’s changed my entire life.”
I attended part of Mr. Sallee’s memorial in Spokane Saturday; I arrived in time to catch most of Carl Gidlund’s warm talk. I read Young Men and Fire while applying to jump bases, and thought such disasters would not be repeated, not with jumpers or hotshots. My second season jumping was ’94 and Storm King taught me how wrong I was.
What struck me reading the obituaries and attending the memorial was what a long, full life Mr. Sallee led after Mann Gulch. He was only two years older than my older child when it happened, and it’s hard to imagine such a young person getting through that terrible night after surviving, but he did, and lived a long life.
Sonny Soto and I were on a fire together a week after Storm King, and I am sad life ended so differently for him.
Mr Sallee’s obituary was also in the Washington Post on May 31st.
Thanks Ed. I found it HERE.