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The Oak Creek Fire Department
The Passing of the Guard: Chief Jack Slater Retires

Story and photos
by George Gramlich
It was 1988 when Jack and Audrey Slater, owners of The General Store on Oak Creek Grade, (they’re on the Fremont side about a mile north from the Custer County border,) decided that due to their remote location, some sort of firefighting capability was needed on the Grade’s plateau. (The “plateau” starts around mile marker 10 on County Road 255 and extends north past the Fremont County line to the National Forest Lions Canyon Trailhead campsite going down “the hill”. About five miles long.) Continue reading The Passing of the Guard: Chief Jack Slater Retires →