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To: Bill Grant who wrote (87189)6/21/2002 3:18:19 PM
From: long-gone  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116944
 
<<Unbelievable.>>

BELIEVE IT

this is YESTERDAY & note they'll just NOW allow chainsaws & light equipment in the part of the fire in an attached "wilderness" area:

gazette.com.

and see this EXACT QUOTE in contest of the rest of the story:

"Some evacuees also wondered why two giant bulldozers on loan from the Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Co. were turned away from the fire camp a week ago. The dozers, with 18-foot blades, were donated to help plow fire line.

But Kitchens said a bulldozer that big would cause too much damage to the forest.

"We wouldn't want to scar the land with a blade that big," he said. "We don't want to make the scar as big as the damage that the fire is causing."
gazette.com
Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph