Dick Lord / Radiolab staff credits (mixed) - Unknown
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I see a lovely bird with a gray back.
Okay, my name is Dick Lord, and I, at the time of the Mack Lake fire, I was part of the ignition crew for the prescribed burn.
I could see the Forest Service starting to do a burn.
And I thought, this is not a good time.
And I said, we'll probably be getting called out here shortly.
Basically, we did not realize that the weather was going to change as rapidly as it did.
There were flames, probably 100 to 150 feet in the air.
And, I mean, you could feel the heat.
Hitting the tops of the trees, rolling.
I knew at the rate it was traveling that it was going to be a major catastrophe.
Far as you can see, it was all black.
Garage was all burned up, black, charred.
Far as you can see, everything gone.
Basically what happened was the fire overran him.
You know, the Kirtland's Warbler was listed under the Endangered Species Act, and we had a charge under the law to do what we could to recover its existence.
And that's the only thing that I can say, that we had to do what the law required us to do.
Something that none of us will ever forget forever.
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