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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Julia Lyon / The Bulletin
October 5, 2003
When air tankers flew overhead, the grass flattened as the wind rushed by. Kate Lohff lay on the hill next to the air tanker base in McCall, Idaho, where she grew up, and had an overwhelming sense of how small the pilot seemed compared to the plane above.
"They're like whales in the....