May 05th, 2024

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Fighting fires is a serious business. So is reducing fuel loads. Our town is fortunate to have dedicated volunteers to shepherd our efforts to safely burn brush and maintain Oracle's brush dump.

Two recent structure fires testify to the ongoing threat. Terrible as they were they could have been much worse if surrounding properties had been torched.

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Kaz and I moved to Oracle in 1979. The house we bought dated to the late 1940s. With little advance knowledge of the place, we set out to build a new life together, intending to settle in and raise a family.

Queens, New York and before that Chicago, Illinois rapidly receded in our rearview mirror as small town living moved front and center.

Of course, we had to learn how to do lots of new things - from chainsawing dead trees, fighting fires, building cabinets, patching leaky roofs; not to mention figuring out how to get along in a rural town in Arizona with the center of local government an hour away and a do-it-yourself ethos the order of the day.

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May 05th, 2024

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