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An area known as the Ridges Basin located west of Durango, Colorado will eventually be flooded as part of the Animas-LaPlata project. But this week, it is serving as a classroom. KSUT's Victor Locke says 29 people are learning how to investigate the origin and cause of wildfire.
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An area known as the Ridges Basin located west of Durango, Colorado will eventually be flooded as part of the Animas-LaPlata project. But this week, it is serving as a classroom. KSUT's Victor Locke says 29 people are learning how to investigate the origin and cause of wildfire.
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April 14, 2005
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HOST LEAD: The Ridges Basin area West of Durango, which will eventually be flooded as part of the Animas LaPlata project, is serving as a classroom this week. KSUT's Victor Locke says 29 people are learning how to investigate the origin and cause of wildfire.
HEATH: OKAY WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO NOW, FOR THE NEXT AHH, THIRTY MINUTES OR SO, YOU'LL SEE OUT HERE'S THERE'S 15 ORANGE CIRCLES WITH NUMBER FLAGS ON THEM AND IN EACH SPOT THERE IS OR IS NOT AN IGNITION SOURCE.
VICTOR: Mike Heath is from South Carolina. He's with Homeland Security and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, instructing 29 students from five states in a weeklong course on how to determine the origin and cause of a wild fire. The students, mostly from firefighters, forest rangers, and police officers, have spent part of the week in the classroom, and part on the scorched floor of windy Ridges Bas...
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