This is something I started writing just after the Rodeo-Chediski fire in the White Mountains of Arizona in 2002. It is my recollections of that event. I put this out there with some trepidation as I used to drink
from dawn to dusk (and thensome) if I wasn't at work back in those days. I added to it on the five year annversary as well. I hadn't changed that habit yet.. Growing up in Southern California, I've seen a lot of fires, I mean a lot, but this one was "The Monster". I'll just say that I have been through plenty of natural disasters and such, but this one stuck with me. I certainly hope we here on the mountain do not have to go through it again, but this year doesn't look good.
