he serves as chief of the local fire department. mail is delivered by boat, and wildlife got the landscape, but there is an underlying anxiety. >> and the thing is, if we can't stop the oil from getting in here, it can be lost for multiple generations. >> reporter: in early may, when cnn first visited magnolia springs, hinton had already sounded the alarm, and was told by some locals he was overreacting. bm provided a single line of boom, so hinton drew up a plan to use barges, along with containment booms. bp has since provided more boom, staff and equipment. but hinton says he's relying on his community, and not government. >> they're going to handle it like they did in the valdez spill? >> reporter: the town of magnolia springs had to get government approval to line up the barges. hinton says he was ready to do it, even if it meant going to jail. that didn't happen.