This one from Channel 2 in Anchorage is pretty normal : “One thing left standing after Willow wildfire: an outhouse.”<\/a> And yet it is about a Pagan retreat center. So the “news” to me is that this particular loss and rebuilding is treated as unexceptional, and the Pagans come across as everyday Alaskans, not as weirdos.<\/p>\nAbout that outhouse \u2014 maybe it survived because it was geometrically simple and did not catch embers. Or maybe the fire just swirled around it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As a volunteer firefighter who also has had to evacuate myself three times in ten years because of forest fires, I am pretty accustomed to media coverage of such catastrophic events. 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