Pete Scully, a battalion chief for the California Department of Forestry s fire protection agency, stands next to his camper-shelled pickup truck at a Highway 94 turnoff east of where Campo Creek turns south into Mexico, about halfway between Campo and Potrero. The hill looming on the south side of the road is completely blackened, the aftermath of a wildfire that roared through this area the day before, Monday, September 13. We could see the smoke, and we could see it was in Mexico. So I held off on the [large-scale] dispatch.
By Ernie Grimm, October 7, 2004 | Read full article
Sally Snipes: I was in a funk for six months because of the black. Everything was black.