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05/21/2018 09:51PM   (Thread Older Than 3 Years)
This was likely minutes from being a large uncontrolled fire in the BWCAW. Thank goodness for the bucket brigade. Click here for Joe Friedrichs report from WTIP Radio in Grand Marais. Fire
 
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05/21/2018 11:34PM  
That is a great story. That is an area of some of the best old growth Left up there. Not so long ago my bother and I spent an entire day dousing a fire smoldering in the quetico. I understand that fire and wind damage is a part of the forest ecology in the north woods, but I think the bwca has seen enough devastation for the next decade or so.
 
lundojam
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05/22/2018 06:31AM  
A close one for sure. What a brave, handsome fellow this guy must be! His wife is the most beautiful and brave woman on the planet, too. They didn't catch any fish, though! ;)
 
smoke11
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05/22/2018 06:41AM  
Close call for sure!
 
mastertangler
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05/22/2018 07:11AM  
lundojam: "A close one for sure. What a brave, handsome fellow this guy must be! His wife is the most beautiful and brave woman on the planet, too. They didn't catch any fish, though! ;)"


Ha! Good job.........right place at the right time.
 
Jackfish
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05/22/2018 08:18AM  
Way to go, Jim & Stephanie! Handsome, beautiful, brave AND TIMELY! Glad you were there to get the fire put out. Just think if you weren't!
 
05/22/2018 09:09AM  
lundojam: "A close one for sure. What a brave, handsome fellow this guy must be! His wife is the most beautiful and brave woman on the planet, too. They didn't catch any fish, though! ;)"


Well done!

.... I am slow.... took me a while to make the connection.... couldn't figure out the "handsome" and "beautiful" comments without a picture of the two of you in the story!!!
 
QueticoMike
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05/22/2018 09:45AM  
Nice work! Thank you!
 
missmolly
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05/22/2018 10:42AM  
Hooray for you two and hooray for the woods too! My dad and I were fishing the UP once and the area had been devastated by fires. We were driving through a burned area and a fire had restarted in burned woods. My dad ran to it to fight it while I drove to the fire station to alert the firefighting crew. I didn't want to be seen as hysterical, so I calmly told one of the firefighters and lawdy, did that ever set off men running and screaming and trucks burning rubber.
 
Walley_hnter
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05/22/2018 04:53PM  
Good work Jim! Thanks!
 
05/22/2018 06:12PM  
Thank you Lundojam! You probably saved many acres of forest. And thanks to your beautiful wife, too!

A few years ago in Quetico we came upon a campsite and saw smoke coming out. Smoldering a lot of places including the base of a couple of trees. Of course we put it out but had no way of knowing who the perps were that were so irresponsible.
 
05/22/2018 07:25PM  
Thanks
 
05/22/2018 09:48PM  
lundojam: "A close one for sure. What a brave, handsome fellow this guy must be! His wife is the most beautiful and brave woman on the planet, too. They didn't catch any fish, though! ;)"


Thank you!
 
05/23/2018 06:31AM  
Nicely done!!!! Thank you
 
05/23/2018 07:47AM  
I have travelled in that area 3 times. Thanks for a job well done.
 
05/23/2018 08:34AM  
BWPaddler: "
lundojam: "A close one for sure. What a brave, handsome fellow this guy must be! His wife is the most beautiful and brave woman on the planet, too. They didn't catch any fish, though! ;)"



Thank you! "


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