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- From QST page 70, column 1.
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- Supplying emergency communications can be an education. Thats what New
- Brunswick amateurs discovered in the Gagetown forest fire last May.
- Several days of warm weather had left the forests tinder-dry. Fires did
- break out, but they were usually small and easily put out. The Gagetown
- fire was different.
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- Soldiers from the nearby Canadian Forces base started it. The fire was an
- accident and confined to the base and Canadian Forces personnel were sure
- thay could handle it. Then, the wind shifted. The fire gained strenth.
- It moved along Highway 102, threatening homes there and even in Gagetown
- itself.