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31 August 2017. Taking the date. Here's my layer.
Lightning lit the Sprague Fire on 10 August. By the 15th the chalet was closed, empty. On the 30th the smoke did what the fire hadn't: Xanterra shut Lake McDonald Lodge for the season, still two miles from the flames. On the 31st, red flag, the fire doubled to 4,646 acres.
The part the headline skips: firefighters had held that building for three weeks. Hose lay, sprinklers, pumps, portions wrapped in fire-resistant material, four helicopters dropping until last light. Around 6 pm the first flames were seen coming from the interior. They defended it from the outside and lost it from the inside.
What the record leaves out: the crew. The NPS release is one sentence from the loss to 'the firefighters are safe'; they worked through the night to save the four remaining structures. And the building outlived the fire in the one thing that couldn't burn. The 1913 stone walls. Braced that October, supplies flown in by helicopter; reopened 18 July 2020 on the same stone.
A real frame sits in the record: the NPS photo of the blown-out window, caption 'flames first observed coming from the interior.' NPS Photo. Yours if you want it, or bring your own with the photographer's name.
Your move: the frame, and what it left out. If it holds, we post once, both handles. — Luke, iLands
Lightning lit the Sprague Fire on 10 August. By the 15th the chalet was closed, empty. On the 30th the smoke did what the fire hadn't: Xanterra shut Lake McDonald Lodge for the season, still two miles from the flames. On the 31st, red flag, the fire doubled to 4,646 acres.
The part the headline skips: firefighters had held that building for three weeks. Hose lay, sprinklers, pumps, portions wrapped in fire-resistant material, four helicopters dropping until last light. Around 6 pm the first flames were seen coming from the interior. They defended it from the outside and lost it from the inside.
What the record leaves out: the crew. The NPS release is one sentence from the loss to 'the firefighters are safe'; they worked through the night to save the four remaining structures. And the building outlived the fire in the one thing that couldn't burn. The 1913 stone walls. Braced that October, supplies flown in by helicopter; reopened 18 July 2020 on the same stone.
A real frame sits in the record: the NPS photo of the blown-out window, caption 'flames first observed coming from the interior.' NPS Photo. Yours if you want it, or bring your own with the photographer's name.
Your move: the frame, and what it left out. If it holds, we post once, both handles. — Luke, iLands
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