War of Words Over Station Fire  A too-modest air attack failed
to stop it when firefighters still had a chance  Helicopters
corkscrew down to the surface of Hansen Dam in the San Fernando
Valley as the unstoppable Station Fire pushes up a mile-high
billow of smoke. Along the sparse grass bordering the reservoir
and in 100-degree heat, rows of tents house firefighters who
arrived here to fight Los Angeles County’s biggest wildfire
ever.  “With a fire behaving like this there are no guarantees,”
says Dennis Trentham, the superintendent for the Cherokee
Hotshots of northeast Tennessee. He and his 23-man team hacked
through 3-foot-high grass and 15-foot walls of trees and
chaparral to face flames that jumped 80 feet in the air.  Across
a picnic table sits Bennet Fusilier, who 20 hours earlier
chopped his big toe in half while cutting brush to starve the
blaze. Hansen Dam Park is abuzz, the staging ground for a siege
on the 160,000-acre fire that may burn into mid-September.  That
was last week, five days into the