Fire aftermath

[Wandering Man]

Mount Graham caught fire about a month before I arrived in Thatcher/Safford, and wasn't put out until less than a week before I arrived.  The folks in the area were clearly frustrated when the fire first started because the Forest Department decided to let it burn, stating they had too many other fires to attend to.  When is that ever a good option?

I watched in the paper as the fire progressed from just a few acres, to 400 acres, and finally to 48,000 acres.  Then the monsoons started, and shortly after we heard about people getting caught in the flash floods and drowning as water came charging down the mountains through the washes.  I heard about two people who had drowned while I was in the area.

Here's the link to today's article in the local paper:

http://www.eacourier.com/news/legislators-listen-to-resident-issues-with-wildfires/article_3259e9f6-7ca6-11e7-8008-63979923851f.html

[CBT]

Thanks for the post. I'm glad they even got to bend an ear to the Feds.

[Barbarian]

Thank you for the post.

In this country we have had similar knock-on effects.

Locally, gravel was extracted from part of a river floodplain. The pits were back filled with refuse and allowed to raise the level to several feet above the original. After a spell of prolonged rain, the river flooded and properties were inundated. A local medieval church was flooded and more than 2 years on it is still closed.