Photo: #The Cavity Lake fire is being fought with a helicopter and two CL-215 water scoop airplanes. This smaller float plane is being used to guide the other fire fighting aircraft. The airplane is about to take off from Seagull Lake.
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The Cavity Lake fire is being fought with a helicopter and two CL-215 water scoop airplanes. This smaller float plane is being used to guide the other fire fighting aircraft. The airplane is about to take off from Seagull Lake. (MPR Photo/Bob Kelleher)

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Summer heat, summer drought

Living near fire zones

Broadcast: Midmorning, 07/21/2006, 9:06 a.m.
Broadcast: Midmorning, 07/21/2006, 9:06 a.m.

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The fires in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area worry some who live on the Gunflint Trail. Midmorning looks at how fires are fought, how forests are managed and whether people should reconsider living near areas prone to burning.

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  • Roger Kennedy: Author of "Wildfire and Americans." He served as director of the National Park Service from 1994 to 1997.
  • Peter Leschak: Firefighter for the Minnesota DNR division of forestry and the fire chief in the town of French. He's the author "Ghosts of the Fireground: Echoes of the Great Peshtigo Fire and the Calling of a Wildland Firefighter" (2003).
  • Lee Frelich: Researches forest ecology and fire management at the University of Minnesota.

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