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Escape
To Loon Lake
 Yellow school buses stuffed with sleeping bags and other camp gear
carried 87 children and five adults away from Montana’s Bitterroot
Valley in mid-August while firefighters struggled to save homes and
communities. Their destination was a specially organized 4-H camp near
scenic, fire-free Flathead Lake. Montana State’s Ravalli
County Extension offered the campers the normal fun activities and a
haven from worry. New Mexico’s Spanish-speaking residents stunned by
the Cerro Grande fire received some advice from California’s
Spanish Broadcast and Media Services. The package of fire-related
information offered tips for managing credit after a disaster,
fire-related insurance claims and helping children cope. Utah State
turned a 600-acre wildfire site into an outdoor classroom for
elementary students from the Edith Bowen Laboratory School. A Huntsman
Foundation grant bought plants and seeds the students will plant to
heal the land.
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