Busy Day!

We had a busy day today. I rode out to the dump with John to get rid of the tree we cut down and some other limbs. We could see an ambulance at the dump, so we stopped in on our way out to see what happened. A man fell into one of the containers! It's about a 10 foot drop if the container is empty and it was. He cut his head pretty badly, one side was cut from in front of his ear all the way across the top and down the back side to his neck! I'm amazed that he lived, he was conscious and asked to be removed from the container, so the operator got his backhoe and put the bucket down for him to sit in. He said one of the EMT's told him that they would probably fly the guy out to Flagstaff for medical care. Scary!

In the afternoon, we rode up to Nutri and Alpine. It looked better than I was imagining, but I don't think we saw the worst places. Escudilla looks bad, just toothpicks sticking up all over the hill. Lots of others were the same. We saw only one burned home, it was on the property Shumway's used to own, not sure if they still do, buildings around the burned one, funny how fire jumps around! Alpine was smoky, and we could see places that were still smoldering in the hills around. It made me so sad to see our destroyed forest, and mad! We need to replace the people who are managing our forests and sue the environmentalists, who sue the forest service to stop any thinning and logging!