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Thread: 2020 Wildfire Season
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10-23-2020, 09:33 AM #1076
Keeps going like this they're going to have to start naming fires with Greek letters.
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10-24-2020, 08:41 AM #1077
https://wildfiretoday.com/2020/10/24...efighters-pay/
Maybe just maybe change is coming.
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10-24-2020, 09:15 AM #1078
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10-24-2020, 09:59 AM #1079
Full time employees, fight fires during fire season and do inspections and prevention in the non-fire season. This shouldn’t be that hard right?
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10-24-2020, 12:22 PM #1080
Mental health issues to the forefront, due to a string of seriously ass-kicking seasons.
https://wildfiretoday.com/2020/10/23...mental-health/
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10-24-2020, 12:36 PM #1081
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10-24-2020, 05:09 PM #1082
^ Heh. “Strong backs and weak minds”
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10-25-2020, 11:03 AM #1083
Firefighters stop East Troublesome Fire outside Estes Park, Colorado
Operations Chief said they had a “very good day” Friday
https://wildfiretoday.com/2020/10/25...park-colorado/
The fuels treatments helped significantly. Those fuels treatments are what gave us a really good defensive start to our day today when we saw that. It gave us something to work off of and to build off of.
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10-25-2020, 11:16 PM #1084
Humidity has dropped from 93% to 15% with winds gusting to 30+ in the CA foothills. Hoping for no new outbreaks.
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10-26-2020, 09:27 AM #1085
Private contractors who in the past contracted with the Forest Service to supply bulldozers and other equipment to fight big fires are now being sidelined due to bureaucratic snafus.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/californ...ainstage_card2
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10-26-2020, 11:08 AM #1086
winds are really cooking at 7000’ west side central sierra
I didn't believe in reincarnation when I was your age either.
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10-26-2020, 11:42 AM #1087Registered User
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Hard to get good info here on the EC, did the snow in CO help put down some of the fires?
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10-26-2020, 12:03 PM #1088
It certainly didn't hurt...
Updates here: https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/
There are FB links in individual fire pages there with more recent updates, as well...
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10-27-2020, 11:36 AM #1089
Two fire fighters burned bad in Orange County. Vibes.
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10-27-2020, 02:18 PM #1090?
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The Silverado Fire. Santa Anna Winds faning a bad fire in the Irvine Santa Anna area. I just saw a report that over 100,000 have been evacuated. The power company has taken the blame. This one looks real bad. Densely populated. Lots of circa 60's Neighbourhoods full of houses stacked 15 feet apart. All surrounded by brown tall grass.
Own your fail. ~Jer~
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10-27-2020, 02:34 PM #1091I've concluded that DJSapp was never DJSapp, and Not DJSapp is also not DJSapp, so that means he's telling the truth now and he was lying before.
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10-27-2020, 03:23 PM #1092
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10-27-2020, 04:25 PM #1093
I partially grew up on those flatlands and could walk the few blocks from one of those homes into the evac zone. Agree, many of the evacuated homes in the hills are packed, like 2ft setbacks, and less than 25 yrs old. Of course, mixed in are lower income high density residential developments.
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10-27-2020, 05:01 PM #1094Registered User
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10-27-2020, 05:02 PM #1095Registered User
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And it took me under a half hour 🤘🤘🤘
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10-27-2020, 06:36 PM #1096Registered User
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Yabbut ...... Spirit rules.
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10-27-2020, 10:22 PM #1097
Continuing the drum beat supporting more prescribed fire
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/27/92790...CmeStHbCEuDZuw
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10-28-2020, 07:16 AM #1098
^ Good article. It sums up the scientific causes and issues involved, but it doesn’t really address the crucial next step, which IMO is getting the public educated and supportive of landscape-scale fuels treatments. I don’t have a solution for that, I think it’s in the realm of social sciences to get the public on board with science-based large-scale Rx fire, mitigation, and thinning work. It will be expensive, have a certain amount of risk, be pretty inconvenient, and involve accepting that treated lands will look very different and not always pretty for a while.
And it’s not just the public, but the land management leaders, described in the article as cautious. They’re cautious because they get the crap beat out of them, figuratively, by the public that doesn’t get it, and ultimately, their bosses are chicken-shit politicians that respond much better to public pressure than they do to science and common sense. To be timely, one only has to look at the COVID situation to see this dynamic in action.
Sorry, I’m feeling cynical this morning, thanks for letting me sound off.
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10-28-2020, 08:10 AM #1099
A pretty good piece, sort of poignant, about hotshot life.
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10-28-2020, 08:48 AM #1100
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