Drangon Fire

The fires at the canyons, aptly called Dragon Fires, are getting worse. much worse. The Fires have breached the Rims and are coming down into the canyons. Thankfully it is only at the south and east rim, the north and west rium are still fine. But all it takes is a spark; a cigarrette butt, some glass in the sunlight, or even better lightining (that which started the West Rim fires), and this whole place will go up in flames, the land being so dry as it is already. people are being evacuated from the canyons all the time with resucitators and blah, as the smoke from the fires descends into the canyons in the morning and evening as it cools and can suffocate the weak. Id suspect PSI to be over 250 now, visibility is really low and you smell like you're in a campfire all the time. this morning as i was cleaning out my cabins i took a look over one canyon and i could see NOTHING but a grey expense. Scares the hell out of me. At night we can see the fires buring the brush all the way across the south rim. occasionally a huge plume of fire brightens the night as a giant ponderosa catches fire (the fire mostly eats up the brush and leaves the trees alone, as most trees here have fire resistant bark) and goes up in flames. The cresent moon was missing yesterday, hidden by the smoke.
We are having second thoughts of doing a rim to rim; not just because of the smoke, the heat there is unbearable. At phantom Ranch, a waypoint in the middle of the canyons, the temperature has reached 50 Celcius in the day. theis is a real danger and i fear that many of my tema memebers are very inexperienced and not as fit as i want them to be. Already in a preivous hike we have had problems, from physical inability to inexperience, and even more dangerous, lack of team responsibility:
yesterday i got so angry i neary slapped someone. a group of four girls from Singapore went down to the canyons for a hike. what happened was on the way up one of them got hungry and did not really want to wait for the rest and split up. she went on ahead and finished the hike then went straight to dinner, while the rest were still down there in the canyons. she didnt even bother to check on the rest. the second one went on ahead to a checkpoint in the canyons and waited for the last two, who had cramped her legs. she waited until 8pm when it was really dark and panicked and came to find us at the employee lodge. all the girls who went down did not bring torches so we panicked and went down with our torches to find them. Thank goodness find them we did and brought them back safely. the 1st girl then only just arrived and acted as if nothing was wrong. we were all so angry with her. i told her that she lacked responsibility and had to go down as one and come up as one; so many people have died in the canyons because of stupid little things like this. then she said something that made me blow up. she said "ok, i have one thing to say, it should have been me who got lost down there because if i died no one would even care" at that point i got so angry i had to leave. i felt a slap coming her way. she is of a mature 23 years old and acted like a thirteen year old youngling.
i know, i shouldnt get so worked up over this, i have no right to do that anyway, but people like this really need to be taught a lesson. what more is, shes going down with my group, as in, she had invited herself into my group and then started making decisions for everyone. some of them were bad decisions and we had to make amends into everything.i was still ok that she just inserted herself into our group and then started making decisions, but it was her irresponsibility and lack of care that pissed me off so damn much.
Last 3 days of work. then its off to play.

this is yc, signing off.