Our prayers are for the safety of all residents and firefighters! We also pray for rain.
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Renée Jean
A 7-mile ribbon of black, charred ground now stands between the Elk Fire and Bighorn Mountain communities to the east, stretching from Goose Creek all the way down to the Red Grade Road, where the Rocky Mountain Area Complex Incident Management Team is building a “catcher’s mitt” for a fireball.
The idea behind the catcher’s mitt is to deprive the Elk Fire of fuel to continue its southward march, forcing the fire to turn back in on itself, away from the communities that lie at the foot of the Bighorn Mountains and stopping its southern trek.
Seen from above, the ribbon of black feels impossibly tiny for the job. But it is one-half to three-quarters of a mile wide for that entire 7-mile stretch, burned one careful block at a time. More Here
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Fireman’s PrayerWhen I am called to duty, God Help me to embrace a little child Enable me to be alert I want to fill my calling And if according to Your will History of the Fireman’s PrayerThe only way he could find to ease the pain of such a tragedy was to sit down and put his thoughts on paper. The phrase, “enable me to be alert and hear the weakest shout”, sends a chill up a firefighter’s spine as you imagine what he experienced on that fateful night. It was a particularly tough time for him as he had young children around the same age. While most accounts of the Firemen’s Prayer conclude with Author Unknown, the world renowned poem was written by Firefighter A.W. “Smokey” Linn. As a young firefighter in 1958 Linn and his crew responded to a fire in which three children were trapped behind security bars and died in the fire. His granddaughter, Penny McGlachlin said that back then there were no grief counselors to help the firefighters. Penny believes this was an actual prayer from him, to god for the sake of his own family, the other fireman, and the families of the children. Smokey joined the Wichita, Kansas Fire Department in 1947 after returning from World War 2. He retired in 1975 and became president of the local chapter of the Good Sam Camping Club. He passed away March 31, 2004 of complications following surgery. The Fireman’s Prayer was originally published in a book called, “A Celebration of Poets” in 1958. The last copyright of the book was 1998. It is the family’s desire that the credit for the Firemen’s Prayer go to the author, A.W. Smokey Linn. |
