This message is from: "Philis B. Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
We are experiencing some very devastating forest fires here in northeastern
Minnesota in the "Arrowhead, Gunflint Trail" region. Many folks have lost
their homes and Wilderness Canoe Base, a Christian camp for young people,
lost around 50 buildings. Now only about five are standing and they are
facing a summer season without a camp. About 18 horses have been evacuated
from Gunflint Lodge, a big resort. They are corralled in our town hockey
arena. We are seriously contemplating what to do with our six
horses,(including a mare soon to foal). Kit Davis has offered to put up
Mary and Jon Ofjord's and our horses if the fire comes to Grand Marais.
My husband and I went to our log cabin on West Bearskin Lake this evening to
try to "save" the structure from the fire if it comes to the cabin. It
seems so hopeless! My youngest son has been fighting the fires since last
Sunday and he told me tonight that the winds are supposed to change
tomorrow, so hopefully our cabin, and many others, will be spared.
So that you can understand the magnitude of this fire, it has burned well
over 20,000 acres of forest and over 45 homes besides Wilderness Canoe Base
and it's still going strong. Many people are displaced and some have no
home to go back to. The fire is only 5% contained and because we have been
in a two year drought, the fire could burn for along time to come. Back in
1999 our area experienced a big blowdown with 100 mile an hour winds. This
fire is in part, a result of the blowdown that was not properly cleaned up.
We all knew it was coming and now, here it is. Very sad.
Philis Anderson
Sawtooth Mountain Fjords
Grand Marais, MN
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