Trustee Cenac is very anti-government involvement in constituents' problems, which is interesting, since she takes up one of the precious six seats on the town board, which is ostensibly a local government entity, organized to protect and serve the local taxpayers. If you go back through any noise ordinance discussion over the past six years, you will find, without fail, when she buzzes in to talk (and she never feels uncompelled to share this laissez faire opinion), that she constantly and consistently lectures the audience on where they choose to live determining whether they have any right to complain. This is known as victim blaming - If you are raped, it is because of the way you dress, if your business is vandalized by a customer bent on destruction, it is because your windows aren't strong enough to withstand getting hit with a large rock, and, God forbid, if you can't tolerate 14 straight hours of 100+ decibel noise, it is because your ears are pansies and you pic...
Welcome to Saratoga, Wyoming, and a private company called Saratoga Forest Management, which prides itself on its framing lumber produced from high-altitude Rocky Mountain Lodgepole Pine and Engelmann Spruce (they call their trademarked product "Saratoga Straights"). 
The fire, which started in and quickly spread throughout the storage yard, is essentially doused (cross your fingers) and did not encroach on the sawmill itself, which it within Saratoga city limits (I've eaten at an outside table at Hugus & Co, close to Bella's Bistro marked on this map, more than once):
All of this is a shame, because this company was doing something about the lack of natural forest fires in the Rocky Mountain region, which leads to overgrowth of unhealthy trees, which leads to insect infestation, which leads to uncontrollable forest fires. But what are you going to do? No houses or businesses were damaged, no lives were lost, and if the company can recover, or is allowed to stay in operation (the current owner revived the sawmill in 2013), now more than ever it will need to process a lot more trees from the Medicine Bow National Forest.
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