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To the editor:
I am afraid that Park Service spokesmen have not told this newspaper, and the public, the entire story about the recent fire on Old Rag Mountain.
The fire was first reported early Tuesday afternoon (Oct. 24). The Park apparently did send some sort of crew up to the top of the ridge to look at the problem. But they left about dark—before the fire was all the way out.
By 9:15 that night the fire was burning brightly and was easily visible from route 231 near Etlan. A ring of fire several hundred yards in diameter, with the upper edge near the top of the ridge, could be seen for miles. I know because I saw it and reported it to the emergency park telephone number. A pleasant-sounding woman told me they knew the fire was burning, but thanked me for calling. I obviously was not the first to call.
“You might call back if it really seems to flare up,” she said. Less than an hour later I called back to tell her that the fire had apparently cut through the big notch in the ridge and was burning on the back (west) side.
If one crew had been left with the fire that first night, it never would have spread
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