Exposed to Milford Flat fire in Utah 2007 ?? Important News
On July 5, 2007, what would become the biggest fire in Utah's history hadn't yet started. It would start the next day, on July 6 at 3:45 p.m. Yet, on July 5, an atmospheric and radiation monitoring station in the town of Milford, Utah, picked up abnormally high levels of gamma radiation - the radiation was off the charts and continued that way for over a week.
Officials from the Department of Energy, which operates the monitoring station in Milford, first believed that the radiation spikes were caused by radon gas being released by the Milford Flat Fire, the wildfire that didn't start until the next day! The DOE later couldn't prove their theory about radon gas and in October 2007 reached another conclusion: that the radiation spikes were caused by a warped electronic component within the monitoring equipment; the cause of warping was unknown
"If you or someone you know was traveling on Interstate-15 in central
Utah between Scipio and Beaver, or on I-70 from Cove Fort (I-15
junction) to Richfield, Utah, on Saturday, July 7, 2007, and meet
these conditions - (1) experienced exposure to heavy smoke from the
Milford Flat fire and (2) have persisting health problems since that
exposure - please contact us by visiting www.idealist.ws . We can
put you in contact with others who have experienced property damage
or bodily harm from the fire/smoke exposure and are seeking remedy.
"The Milford flat fire jumped I-15 near Cove Fort, Utah, on Saturday,
July 7, prompting closure of a part of the interstate system by
Saturday afternoon; the resulting traffic snarl and poor visibility
due to smoke density was blamed for a fatal accident that killed two
motorists. The smoke from the Milford Flat fire contained hundreds
of toxic compounds that are normally found in wood smoke; those
substances typically don't affect health in the long term. Any
long-term effects from smoke exposure may be attributed to
radiological substances - i.e., nuclear fallout resuspended by the
fire. Visit idealist.ws for more."
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To: idealist@lists.riseup.net
From: <info@idealist.ws>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:22:15 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [idealist] Sharing motivation in antinuclear activism
There are many reasons why one becomes an anti-nuclear activist. For me, it
was from meeting downwinders when I lived in Utah during the Divine Strake
episode. If you remember the downwinders who protested Divine Strake, you
probably remember witnessing a certain look on their faces, or sentiment
expressed with words, of utter disbelief. How could the government, after
poisoning countless people decades ago with fallout and barely lifting a finger
now to improve RECA (the government act to compensate downwinders from cold war
testing and uranium mining),...how could they just go ahead and 'do this'?
Divine Strake was cancelled, thanks to the untiring efforts of so many citizens
and groups across the country. Another generation of downwinders that could
have been created from the proposed Divine Strake test was prevented.
Fast forward to the present day: people are still dying, yes, from
fallout-related diseases. Their fight for RECA expansion is an uphill battle.
There are countless other fights that anti-nuclear activists across this nation
and world are fighting to slow and ultimately stop the nuclear war machine in
the United States. These people believe in a world without nuclear power and
nuclear weapons. The latter, they believe, is not necessary to bring about
world peace, because nuclear weapons can never 'force' peace.
How do we get there? What is the best path to a nuclear free world and justice
for downwinders? As I have written in my essay 'Our Nuclear Future' on
Idealist.ws, 'a nuclear-free future will not come about through the
dissemination of facts or the ratification of treaties or the coordination of
movements. It will come about through a transformational change in the way
people think.' I believe that the quickest path to change lies in the
contagion of compassion. It is too difficult for the layperson to assimilate
tons of facts and analyses to adopt an anti-nuclear stance. I think that the
key is how we relate to other humans (and animals) who have suffered from the
harm that has been caused and is being caused by global (not just U.S.) nuclear
mistakes.
As I have written elsewhere on Idealist.ws, a secret nuclear war has come and
gone. Nuclear bombs were detonated. Thousands and thousands of times on soil
on lands of nearly every continent. It wasn't called a nuclear war. Yet it
was. You call it a cold war, but people died by the millions and millions more
will die. It is the survivors of the nuclear 'wars' of our past that move me
the most. There is one woman I met last year who 'survived' the Milford Flat
fire. That 'event' wasn't related to an actual nuclear explosion. The
tremendous fire, I believe, resuspended nuclear fallout lying dormant in the
soils of the Utah landscape. This woman is still very sick, seven months
later, from 'something' she breathed in. And her best chance of getting help -
legally and, ultimately, medically - is by connecting her with other Milford
Flat fire downwinders. Please send along this below passage to other people
who it might apply to. Thank you for reading about my motivation; I encourage
you to recall the reason you joined this movement and share that motivation
with me and others.
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