Smokejumpers on the Potomac.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Brief article

The U.S. Forest Service has awarded $2.8 million in forest-fire-fighting money to Washington, D.C., reports Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times. To be sure, we probably have more trees than most other cities, but the fact remains that Washington is a very humid place, much of it having been built over a swamp. You would think that...