Download Php A year and a day have passed since Ken Weaver lost his only son to a wildfire that trapped him in a pocket of heat so intense it melted the aluminum canopy of a truck into a puddle. Grief is supposed to dim with time, but Mr. Weaver has yet to feel any relief. He turned down a chance to go to a memorial this week honoring his son, Devin Weaver, and three other Forest Service firefighters who died in the Thirty Mile Fire in Washington's Cascade Mountains.
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Php Upgrading "I will spend the rest of my life marking time until I can see my best friend again," said Mr. Weaver, who is 50. "But until then, all I want is to get some accountability from the Forest Service."
Php Forum After initially saying the deaths of Devin Weaver and three other firefighters were "an act of God," the Forest Service now says the four died in a colossal act of misjudgment by the agency. Two federal investigations found that the supervisors who ordered Devin Weaver and others into flames in a dead-end canyon violated or disregarded every one of 10 standards of firefighting safety.
Flash Php "Without a doubt, there were huge mistakes made in that canyon," said Jim Payne, a Forest Service official who has been charged with ensuring that changes are made as a result of the Thirty Mile fire. "But we learned something. We are trying to change the very culture of firefighting."
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Dream Foundation Php Weaver He was awakened in the middle of the night on July 10 last year by his wife, Barbara, who answered the phone. He remembers the words of the call as if it came five minutes ago. Devin was one of 14 firefighters sent up the road along the Chewuch River to curb a fire that had skipped out of a campsite and raced up the steep forest.
Php Proxy "Devin's crew was overrun by a fire, and Devin did not make it," the Forest Service official told Mr. Weaver, by his recollection.
Nuke Php Theme "I said: `That can't be right. You'd have to handcuff my son to a tree before he'd let a fire burn him up. He could outrun any fire.' "
Php Security Mr. Weaver said his son was given one week of training, and was six weeks on the job when he died with Karen FitzPatrick, 18, and Jessica Johnson, 19, both of Yakima, and Tom Craven, 30, of Roslyn, Wash. They were part of a wave of new firefighters hired by the Forest Service as part of a $2 billion buildup ordered by Congress.
Editor Php After two years of community college, Devin Weaver had been planning to enroll at the University of Washington. A friend suggested fighting wildfires for the summer as a way to earn good money. A passionate outdoorsman, Devin jumped at the chance, his father said.
Hosting Mysql Php Web "He came home one day and said, `Dad, I'm a fed,' " Mr. Weaver said. "He was beaming head to toe."
4th Development Edition Mysql In the Thirty Mile Fire, the winds shifted, fanning a much bigger blaze, and trapping the crew of 14 people in the canyon. They were ordered into their shelters, which are like pup tents made of aluminum. All followed orders, but the four who died put their shelters on rocks that let the superheated air penetrate.
Php Web "They were baked to death," Mr. Weaver said. "Baked to death after being sent into a wall of flames on a dead-end road. It doesn't take much to realize the Forest Service not only violated safety rules, they violated rules of common sense."
Development Mysql Php Web The Forest Service, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, found many lapses. Changes were promised. Most likely, that would have been the end of it. But Mr. Weaver, who owns a small dried-flower company, began looking into other Forest Service accidents, and he said he found similar lapses, and a pattern of ignoring recommendations after those deaths. The Forest Service admitted as much in this case.
Index Php "If you screw up in business, or break the speed limit while driving, they fine you or give you a ticket," Mr. Weaver said. "But when the Forest Service breaks their own rules, there's no consequence."
Download Php Senator Maria Cantwell, Democrat of Washington, reached Mr. Weaver last summer. Senator Cantwell had begun looking at fire deaths, and said she found that the Forest Service did not seem to be learning from its mistakes.
Developer Php "We started looking at these other deaths, and were blown away by the all the similarities," Senator Cantwell said in an interview.
Database Php She and Representative Doc Hastings, a Republican who represents the Yakima Valley, brought Mr. Weaver to Washington.
Php Xml Last fall, Mr. Weaver told a Senate committee how his son had followed the Western right of passage by becoming a firefighter, and how he loved the training and camaraderie. He recounted his son's death, the accident that investigators said should never have happened. When he was done, several senators, including Ms. Cantwell, were in tears.
File Php The bill the president is expected to sign, which would give an outside agency power to investigate the Forest Service after fire deaths, appeared be languishing in Congress, though a version had passed in the House. But it was resurrected this week by Ms. Cantwell, and passed unanimously on Wednesday by the Senate. The bill would mean the Forest Service would no longer be investigating itself after fatal fires. That job would fall to the inspector general.
Php Upgrading Senator Cantwell said Mr. Weaver's grief and that of the other families had propelled the bill through hard times.
Php Forum "Grief is supposed to soften with time, but for me it hasn't," Mr. Weaver said. "In the meantime, I can live for a day when somebody will think twice about sending a young man to his death."
Flash Php By Timothy Egan
New York Times - 7/15/2002
Topic: Fire
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