A Google Earth image of the plume from the Fourmile Canyon Fire, spreading for 100 miles in September 2010
The Boulder Library’s oral history program added 56 new interviews to the collection in 2011, all of them, with audio and transcripts/summaries, available online through our digital archive. The subjects range from farmers to League of Women Voters activists, from Soviet Jewish immigrants to Rocky Flats workers, and from the Italian-American community in Boulder County to the people who fought and endured the Fourmile Canyon Fire of 2010. And more.
Here, in the voice of Christopher O’Brien, captain of the Boulder Rural Fire Department, is a sample of the first-person-witness quality of the stories that were collected about the Fourmile Canyon Fire (interview was conducted by Caitlin McKenna):
Excerpt from OH 1730, interview with Christopher O’Brien
Visit us at http://www.boulderlibrary.org/oralhistory to listen to Chris O’Brien’s complete interview and any of the other 1,700+ interviews in our collection.
And Happy New Year!
Tags: Boulder, Boulder County, Maria Rogers Oral History Program, oral history, Wildland fires
Great work. Great program.
Felicia Furman