Monday, August 19, 2002

Bad aim, dead fish
A firefighting tanker plane accidentally dropped 2,000 gallons of flame retardant into the Fall River, in Oregon. Fish were wiped out for a four-mile stretch. According to Steve Avery, a fishermen who was on the river at the time of the accident: "We saw dead fish, everything from 8-inch hatchery redsides to 24-inch brown trout. It was just awful."