AAN News »
   

Writer Fights the Hayman Fire

By AAN Staff
august 12, 2002  11:22 am
Writer Fights the Hayman Fire
Denver Westword's Eric Dexheimer details his experiences fighting the Hayman Fire, a monster that consumed 137,000 acres of Colorado forest. At times it was horrifying, writes Dexheimer. As for the rest of the time? Well, between the scrounging opportunities that could make a U.S. Army quartermaster blush, the spectacular grub, the huge amounts of money changing hands via a bureaucratic ballet, and the constant struggle between bawdy firefighter humor and the federal "sensitivity police," let's just say this wasn't your grandfather's forest fire.
View full article at Westword