{"id":17640,"date":"2015-01-29T10:50:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T15:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/?p=17640"},"modified":"2023-08-29T12:09:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T18:09:52","slug":"from-the-country-to-the-deep-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/2015\/01\/29\/from-the-country-to-the-deep-country\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Country to the Deep Country"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Pontotoc<\/a>
Pontotoc County Emergency Management Director Chad Letellier works at the Emergency Operations Center at the Pontotoc County Agri-Plex recently.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Approaching<\/a>
Approaching this bridge revealed that the signs and Chad’s advice were right: the bridge was out, but we could all get across using what Chad described as a “shoo fly,” which was a dirt round down and around the bridge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday we heard a bunch of frantic calls from firefighters working on a large grass fire northwest of nearby Roff, Oklahoma. I headed that way, expecting to see a smoke plume to which I could navigate, but by the time I got down there, the fire was mostly contained. I called\u00a0Pontotoc County Emergency Management Director Chad Letellier to get a location and he told me it was near the intersection of county roads 3445 and 1610, “Except that the bridge is out on 1610, but you can take a little shoo fly around it.”<\/p>\n

As I got close, I started hearing chatter on the fireground frequency, 154.355Mhz, which is a simplex (car-to-car) channel, so I knew I was getting close. At the scene, I turned onto a two-track farm trail and flipped on the all-wheel drive.<\/p>\n

\"Area<\/a>
Area firefighters make their way through a pasture after working to extinguish a wildfire estimated to cover about 50 acres in the vicnity of County Roads 1610 and 3445 northwest of Roff Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The yellow arrow shows where I parked my car to make the image below. The nearest town, Roff, population 500, is about six miles southeast of this location.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As I approached a creek, I saw some of the brush trucks coming out, so I pulled over and got out to make a few images. On the frequency I heard, “That’s The Ada News<\/em>. Who got their pictures taken?” I smiled at that.<\/p>\n

I drove deeper onto the ranch, then parked and walked another 200 yards or so to a wooded area<\/a> that was still smoldering.<\/p>\n

I think of myself as living in the country, which I do compared to the suburbs or a city, since Abby and I live on a seven-acre patch in a town where we can burn brush and shoot our guns. But then I go on these assignments, and see what it must be like to really<\/em> live in the country.<\/p>\n

\"This<\/a>
This is my Nissan Juke parked near a creek bed where I made images of yesterday’s wildfire.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Speaking of the small town web, here is another fun one: the Ada Cougar cheerleaders wore t-shirts to a wrestling match recently, and on the shirts was the picture I shot of them in May…<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The Ada High cheerleaders yell for their wrestlers last week. That night they wore t-shirts with my photo of them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday we heard a bunch of frantic calls from firefighters working on a large grass fire northwest of nearby Roff, Oklahoma. I headed that way, expecting to see a smoke plume to which I could navigate, but by the time I got down there, the fire was mostly contained. I called\u00a0Pontotoc County Emergency Management Director…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-our-patch-of-green-in-oklahoma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17640"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30910,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17640\/revisions\/30910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}