Patrick, it's a total cluster f*ck up there. I stood on a corner with a flashlight sending pumping units in the right direction. About 50 to 60 cars came pulling up to gawk at the fires. I have no commission but I told MANY peoople if they didn't have business down that road to go away. I'm sure I pissed numerous people off. We had 3 to 5 dozers, 3 semi tanker trucks with water, and around 15 to 20 firefighing units from Edmond, Mulhall, Warr Acres, Crescent, Cashion, etc. I finally called the county sheriffs office to get a deputy down there to send the trucks in the right direction - obviously I wasn't on their radio net.
The ranger pulls up and I was already ticked off from all the idiots coming to see the fires. I mentioned Bud, his buck and the ODWC. I called them about Bud killing a buck and got no response. I guess you have to be rich and one of the beautiful people to get put in the Outdoor Oklahoma. I was not too nice when I told him about it.
I will say only one thing, emergency management is a joke in this state. Not the hands doing the actual response, but the people in charge seem to run things like a Chinese fire drill.
If you think New Orleans and Katrina was a lone incident, I will tell you right now that I believe many emergency management offices would make that poor a showing.
It looks like the fire is going to stay east of me unless the wind changes. OUbeta may have lost his hunting area to the fire. It started south of the Cimarron, West of 74, jumped the Cimarron and 74.
If we don't get burnt out, the bow hunting around my feeders is going to be pretty good for the next two weeks.