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I just received this dispatch from this week’s intrepid guest blogger, Brigid Quinn,” Cori… get this…
Yesterday at 4:30 p.m. the old school house (located near teacher housing) was set on fire. It was really scary. There is not fire truck or fire department here. So the town made a long line and passed buckets of water down the line from all the ponds to the building. Finally, they got the hose from the old broken down fire truck working and pumped water out of the river. The blaze almost spread to the houses around the school house. All the men in town were going into the fire, and coming out coughing and some yakked. Then they started to tear off all of the outside boards of the building to get inside at different places. I have never seen a community work together so well, within 10 minutes of the initial smoke sightings, the whole town was there, including school administrators, village tribal council, and all the high school boys were helping too. I took some Jr. girls into my house, and we started ripping up t-shirts for the men to tie around their noses. The smoke was really bad, and some asbestos from the school house was on fire. But, after about 2 hours the fire was out…. Scary”.
Luckily, our heroine and her community were not hurt in the blaze but what an ordeal!
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