Comment by Bit Devine on July 2, 2013 at 11:33am

William Warneke was a local boy..just down the road in Marana...

So heavy hearted...and, as I look out my office window... another Fire is being fought on the Mountain just North of me...a fire is being founght in the mountains to the West and South of me... and yet another in the mountains and region which borders Mexico...

The town of Yarnell will be rebuilt...but the scars will remain...and it will be forever changed

That is the way of it here in the Desert Southwest...

We pray for the Monsoons and curse their coming... We welcome the rain and the brief respite...

We marvel at the lightning as it flashes across the sky...and send up a prayer as we see it make contact with the earth...

We watch the lightning show with one ear on the radio listen for that tone...that call out... and breath a sigh of relief when each unit is accounted for...

This time...there was no sigh of relief...only silent sorrow

Comment by Mari Dickson on July 2, 2013 at 7:53pm

Thank you, Bit, for this moment of silence. 

I sent this link to my grandson who is a firefighter and EMT, here in Wisconsin.

Firefighters are people who have an innate desire to help others at the cost of their own peril. This not something one learns, it's something with which one is born. Their enemy is not terrorism, their enemy is the all-consuming fire for which they also risk their lives as does a soldier.

Thank you for your profound comment.....

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