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.
