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20 North Coast Journal • Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 • northcoastjournal.com
As the rain picks up, Mazzeo starts to get nervous. When a hillside has been burned, plants no longer anchor the rocks and dirt, and rain increases the below Safety odds of rock falls. officer Kevin He is anxious to Morris of Roseville, get back to Aikens near Sacramento, oversees the safety Camp, where he for Division X-ray. is staying, before the rain gets any worse. On the drive back, a voice comes over the radio reporting thunder and lightning to the south of the fire, where Division Echo is working. They’re pulling the crew off the mountain. There’s a tremendous thud as a falling rock hits the car’s trunk. Mazzeo tries to call it in over the radio, but the airwaves are crowded. “Now I have to do all the paperwork,” he complains. The car only had 310 miles on it when he rented it in Redmond, Ore. The lady at the front desk told him to bring it back in good shape. Fire crews are rough on rental cars, it turns out. Mazzeo once arrived late to a fire and got the second-to-last rental car. He said every box on the “damages” sheet was checked except for one, the roof. A firefighter had rented the car last, he was told. At another fire, Mazzeo bottomed out his rented Subaru on a rough road and dented a piece on the undercarriage. It was so covered in mud by the time he brought it back that no one noticed. Mazzeo tells the security officer controlling the one-way High on a ridge above Highway 299, crews clear a line to try to stop the Corral Complex.
Just off of Highway 96, a house is still standing in the wreckage of the extinguished Dance Fire.
traffic about the rock that hit his rental car. On the way back down Highway 96, the announcement comes over the radio that Salmon River Road is closed due to falling rocks. No one is getting out of Forks of Salmon tonight.
Overall,
the fires at the Corral Complex, the Salmon River Complex, and the Orleans Complex, which has included the Butler Complex and the now-extinguished Dance fire, have ravaged more than 47,000 acres of forest so far this summer. The estimated containment date