Special tinfoil used to protect historic building from wildfire
NEAR TROUT LAKE, Wash. -- State officials have utilized tinfoil to protect the oldest building in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest from a ravaging wildfire.
With flames from the 4,500-acre Cascade Creek Wildfire scorching trees south of Mount Adams, the USDA Forest Service covered the historic Gotchen Guard Station with aluminized structure wrap as a precaution earlier this week. The special material protects buildings from radiant heat and burning embers.
The 12-by-26 cabin is located approximately six miles north of Trout Lake on the southern slopes of Adams. Built in 1909 to monitor grazing activities, it is now used to house forest guards overseeing recreational use of the mountain.
The station is one of eight surviving structures from the beginning of the forest service still standing in the Pacific Northwest.
With flames from the 4,500-acre Cascade Creek Wildfire scorching trees south of Mount Adams, the USDA Forest Service covered the historic Gotchen Guard Station with aluminized structure wrap as a precaution earlier this week. The special material protects buildings from radiant heat and burning embers.
The 12-by-26 cabin is located approximately six miles north of Trout Lake on the southern slopes of Adams. Built in 1909 to monitor grazing activities, it is now used to house forest guards overseeing recreational use of the mountain.
The station is one of eight surviving structures from the beginning of the forest service still standing in the Pacific Northwest.
Perhaps it works like putting foil on a pie crust to keep it from burning? Works in an oven, though I'll bet the heat in the middle of a forest fire can get a bunch hotter than my oven. Also, a 'foil tent' is carried by firefighers to help protect them if they get trapped.
Is that the same foild Sam Adams used to shield his butt from Beaux Breedlove?
 @Slappy Lipshtien You straight people don't ever let anything go do ya.Â
So it isn't tin foil, it's aluminum foil. I guess the sixth grade editor missed that.
And all the workers came out of the building wondering how the heck Kitzhaber got elected. Guess there IS something to the tinfoil hat.
 @Peregrine Last I noticed, Trout Lake was still in Washington, where Kitzhaber isn't the governor.