One of these metal pieces struck Ms. Kreimeyer in the head, “causing instant death,” the statement said.
She was standing with other family members about 45 feet from the device. The projectile that struck her continued 144 yards farther through the air and landed in a field, the statement said.
Obviously tragic but i love when articles like this try to paint the goriest possible picture of what happened without explicitly saying so. Just say she was decapitated. It’s less horrible than that paragraph, lol.
Sabo the dog and me spent an evening in Medford waiting for I-5 to be opened at the OR/CA border during the devastating 2018 Camp Fire. Cool town. I hope everyone is safe.
The fires have moved away from my house so far thank god, the firefighters kicked some serious ass. That said I woke up this morning and its pretty windy and I can smell smoke very strongly, so obviously things can change in a big hurry.
It feels like it’s only a matter of time before a major wildfire hits a major metropolitan area on the West Coast, unless we’re just that good at fighting fires? Maybe we are?
But like the level of fires we’ve seen the last couple years is probably about what we’re going to see, if not worse, for at least a decade or two even if we start doing everything right 1/21/21, which, spoiler alert, we’re not.
How many years can we roll the dice before something gets out of control, the wind shifts, and a major metropolitan area is on fire?
On the other hand, I guess we’re working toward herd immunity (no more trees).
Fire can’t spread through urban areas easily like it can through native habitat. Thankfully, the odds of some kind of massive urban fire is relatively low due to the way we build cities.
Unfortunately, your herd immunity idea won’t work as grass fires are worse than forest fires in terms of speed!
