People need to remember that when it is time for fund-raisers and donations. Meanwhile, support of a different kind came from female emergency medical technicians. Sharon Duncan, Deanna Ward and Sue Falk, all of Franklin, made sandwiches at the Falks' house and delivered them to the firefighters working the front line. Hard to fight Conditions made the prairie fire difficult to put out, firefighters reported. Rangeland in that part of the country is marked by many canyons and ravines.
Trees cover the landscape.
One flash, and the tree was gone. Flames were reported 50 feet high at times in the trees. At times, lit debris sailed through the air one-quarter mile and started a fire in another place. Fire shot up one canyon and down the other, said Franklin firefighter Randy Stover. It was all around you for a mile and a half.