Word: klamath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jeff Brand looks like hell. His unshaven face is covered with grime, his eyes are swollen and bloodshot, and his raspy speech is punctuated with third-degree coughs and sniffles. "I'm sick as a dog," he growls. The dense smoke on the fire line in Northern California's Klamath National Forest has cut visibility to a lung-searing 150 ft. It is eclipsing the sun like a primordial fog and slowly choking the solemn line of fire fighters. Brand, 26, from Kentfield, Calif., pauses occasionally on the steep slope to vomit discreetly in the woods. "This is unhealthy...
...trick is to keep your energy up," says Jerry Midder-Rider, 32, a veteran fire fighter from the Blackfeet Reservation in Browning, Mont. "You just work, sleep and eat." Midder-Rider is warming himself by a gas heater at a base camp deep in the Klamath National Forest, scene of the worst fires and several deaths. Exhausted after twelve hours on the line, he enjoys relaxing briefly with companions from as far away as Maine and Alaska. "We're all equal out here," he says. "That makes all the difference...