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LARGE GRASS FIRE ON BAINBRIDGE PROMPTS ADVISORY FROM BIFD
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Fire danger: Extreme BY BRIAN KELLY
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Sue Pargman of Drama Kids International reacts as one of the young actors at last week’s Drama Camp at Strawberry Hill Park shares a secret before the kids’ culminating show, “Make Them Laugh.” The children performed a series of skits and jokes (sample: “What do you get when you cross a vampire and a snowman? Frostbite!”) before a standing-room-only crowd on July 31. The next camp, hosted by Bainbridge parks, begins Aug. 10.
The Bainbridge Island Fire Department raised the fire danger level to “extreme” on Monday following two brush fires over the past week. Fire Marshall Luke Carpenter said it’s the first time in his more than 12 years in the Bainbridge Island Fire Department that conditions have warranted such a decision. The move came after a grass fire on Fletcher Bay Road on July 31 that blackened more than an acre of land. High temperatures and the lack of rain expected in coming weeks were also major factors. “We’ve seen a significant uptick in the number of wildland fires for us this year. Seeing that, recognizing how quickly this stuff can burn, recognizing this fire Friday had a lot of potential to it, we decided to raise it to ‘extreme,’” Carpenter
said. Carpenter noted that firefighters also doused a quarter-acre fire at Pritchard Park two weeks ago, and a smaller fire near the water tower behind the high school Monday. The grass fire on Fletcher Bay Road was apparently caused by a riding lawnmower. “The homeowner was mowing his grass, and the grass is so dry — that he hit a rock ... and created sparks. That’s all it took,” Carpenter said. By the time the man finished mowing a row on his riding mower and turned around, Carpenter said, the homeowner saw the fire. It was quickly spreading, and he called 911. By then, the fire had grown to roughly 50 feet by 50 feet in size. It was even larger when firefighters arrived at the scene moments TURN TO DANGER | A15
Film crew collects Mount St. Helens stories for fictional web series BY JESSICA SHELTON Bainbridge Island Review
Where were you when the mountain blew? On Friday, a blue Volkswagen van/mobile film studio will be parked outside Eagle Harbor Books from 5 to 8 p.m. to collect islanders’ stories about the Mount St. Helens eruption. Local production company Draft 22 is teaming up with Honey Toad Studio to create an anthology-style web series — “Who Will You Save?” — about man’s struggle to survive in the face of disaster.
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The series’ opening season, “Beacon,” will feature a dramatic volcano plot set in 1980 in a re-imagined Bainbridge Island. Subsequent seasons will highlight new crises and new characters. In the lead-up to the pilot episode, which is expected to air on Oct. 1, the filmmakers will release clips from Friday’s interviews. While it’s possible that islanders’ personal experiences could make it into the show’s plot, producer Wendy Wallace said her team is mostly interested in generating excitement for
the series, which will revolve around audience engagement. It’s “Survivor” meets the “Choose Your Own Adventure” gamebooks: Every week, viewers will have 36 hours to vote for their favorite characters online, and the character with the fewest votes will be written out of the show — to put it nicely. “It’s going to be heartbreaking every time a character has to die,” Wallace said. “But we’re putting [them] at the mercy of the fan base.” Wallace expects the local cast to get involved, too. “We hope actors will tweet
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The creators of an upcoming web series want to interview islanders about what they were doing when Mount St. Helens erupted. The recordings will take place Friday, Aug. 7 inside “Greta,” a blue VW van/mobile film studio.
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out to their fans, [go to] whatever lengths to [save themselves],” she said. The elimination feature will create a unique challenge for the series’ creators, who will scramble to write, film and edit each episode in just a few days. Still, Wallace and her team are excited to break new ground and produce such an open-ended story. “There are a lot of web series out in the universe; we were trying to come up with something that would capture our
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