Reply #25: People don't realize it but much of Oregon is still wilderness...

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there may be roads through the area, but no one lives in much of the state. You are really on your own. Cell phones frequently are worthless in many areas.

To cap it off, so many people being non-smokers, now enter these areas without lighters or matches. Many people could have been saved if they had just built a fire.

I know the family had been burning tires for warmth...but in his case, he could have built a fire before he passed out.

We have lost people near Klamath Falls because they had no way to make fire(and maybe were never boy scouts)and smoke to get attention.

What a shame.