2020 Wildfire Season

[Meadow Skipper]

No words.............this year can just go right to hell..........


BREAKING: 1-year-old who fled Cold Springs Fire with family on foot dies



MALOTT - Okanogan County Sheriff’s officials have confirmed that 1-year-old Uri Hyland, the daughter of 26-year-old Jamie and 31-year-old Jake Hyland of Renton, has died in the Cold Springs Canyon Fire.

Uri and her parents were at their property near Cameron Lake Road and Paxton Canyon Road between Omak Lake and Malott in OThe Hylands were forced to abandoned their vehicle after crashing it and was later gutted by the blaze. The family was reported missing on Monday and were found on the bank of the Columbia River by a boat patrol that was out looking for them. All three were burned. Uri was already deceased when rescuers arrived and both Jamie and Jake had 3rd degree burns. Both were airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for treatment.

Okanogan County Sheriff Tony Hawley says his department will treat this incident as a homicide unless further investigation confirms that the Cold Springs Canyon Fire was not human-caused. kanogan County when the fire surrounded them

Jeezus. That's fucking awful.

Fucking horrible.

And that clip of the Embarcadero...

[KQ]

He seems like a real peach:




Man with machete accused of starting wildfires


A man armed with a machete was arrested Tuesday on accusations he started six wildfires in Douglas County.

Jedediah Ezekiel Fulton, 39, of Sutherlin was being held Wednesday in the Douglas County Jail with bail set at $50,000.

He was charged with two counts of first-degree arson plus menacing, reckless burning and interfering with a firefighter or emergency medical technician, according to Douglas County Circuit Court records.

On Tuesday at about 11 p.m., Douglas Forest Protective Association firefighters responded to a fire four miles northeast of Glide near McComas Creek. Glide is a community east of Roseburg.

Firefighters found multiple fires burning at a previously logged site. While attempting to pinpoint the location and size of each fire, they found a suspect believed to have started the fires. They asked the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office to respond and take the suspect into custody, according to the Douglas Forest Protective Association.

The man at the scene, later identified as Fulton, was armed with a machete. He told the firefighters to give him a ride into Glide or he would set additional fires, the sheriff’s office said.

Deputies arrived and located the man. He was taken into custody and admitted to setting multiple fires in the area. Fulton told deputies he had been in the forest for about three hours and was attempting to get help, according to the sheriff’s office.

Meanwhile, firefighters found six fires in the McComas Creek area, with the largest fire measuring about a quarter-acre. The combined total of all six fires was estimated at about one acre. Firefighters remained on the scene of the fires overnight and into Wednesday, mopping up hot spots and securing control lines, according to the Douglas Forest Protective Association.

In 2018, Fulton was arrested after he entered a McDonald’s in Sutherlin and told workers to make him 35 double cheeseburgers. When employees refused, he destroyed a banner, then attacked a worker, tackling her to the ground. Fearing for the woman’s life, a witness pulled out his concealed handgun and told Fulton he would shoot him, according to a Sutherlin Police Department report.

A police officer arrested Fulton. While Fulton was being driven to jail, he threatened to kidnap the officer’s family, the report said.

In addition, Fulton said he should have stabbed the employee and the witness who held him at gunpoint. He used a sexist epithet to describe the female employee and a racist epithet about the witness. Fulton said he should have taken the witness’s gun and killed the police who responded to the scene, according to the police report.

“Because that’s exactly what I’m capable of. I’m going to go into the woods and when you m----- f-----s come near me, I’m going to shoot you. That’s my promise to you,” Fulton allegedly told the police officer.

A judge later found him guilty of second-degree criminal mischief and second-degree criminal trespassing. Fulton was fined $150, ordered to pay $35 for the McDonald’s banner and was sentenced to 30 days in jail, with 26 days suspended and credit for four days spent in jail, according to Douglas County Circuit Court records.

Kyle Reed, fire prevention and public safety officer for the Douglas Forest Protective Association, said he doesn’t have any information about whether Fulton was involved in any other recent fires in Douglas County.

The county has seen a spate of scattered rural fires over the past two weeks, including two other clusters of fires, according to recent press releases from the Douglas Forest Protective Association.

Some have been linked to known causes, like a tree contacting power lines, and a grass and brush fire sparked by a cigarette, while others remain under investigation. Firefighters have been able to tackle and contain the fires.

“The rains we had in May and June made a huge difference for the early part of the season,” Reed said. “The benefits of that are gone now.”

Everything from grass to large-diameter trees and logs have dried out, meaning fires that start will spread quickly, he said.

“Every year we ask for the help and cooperation of the public. This year with COVID, it’s even more important to mitigate the causes of fires. If we have a large fire incident, there’s uncertainty about how many resources will be available. Usually when there’s a large fire, we pull resources from across the state and country. There are questions about how freely those resources will be able to move around this year,” Reed said.

[Meadow Skipper]

^ Somehow that seems like he got off lightly, to walk after a few days.

[skaredshtles]

"Jedediah Ezekiel"?

His parents should be jailed as well.

And that motherfucker needs to be in a goddam insane asylum. He's quite obviously batshit-crazy.

Oh, wait. We don't do that any more.

[ill-advised strategy]

Man with machete

That’s the most “Rural Oregon Meth Guy” of all the rural Oregon meth guys.

[bodywhomper]

chad hanson is finally weighing in on the california forest fires, at least the ones in the sierra. https://www.bakersfield.com/ap/natio...67022294b.html

as usually, he seems wrong and misguided. am i missing something? he's often argued about the benefit of catastrphic wildfires in the CA forests

[Norseman]

ugh. dumb mean motherfucker arsonists can get fucked.

light his beard on fire. make him shave it off quick with that machete

[Norseman]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/u...e-updates.html

[TBS]

Tokatee up by Blue River, it still there? God, it’s a slice of heaven ��

Won't know for a few days. All the people I know there are still evac'd. The course looks to be just east of the fire perimeter so fingers crossed.

Either way, this breaks my heart. Lotta memories in the stretch between Blue River and Santiam Pass. My parents had a home on McKenzie River Drive for 35 years.

Dad was a starter at Tokatee and played just about every day - dawn patrol. I've seen elk and black bear on the fairways (we let them play through). I agree that place is a slice of heaven.

Dad's, Mom's and little Brother's ashes were spread just below the Belknap Covered Bridge - which is no more...

At least the area above McKenzie Bridge was spared...

[2FUNKY]

ugh. dumb mean motherfucker arsonists can get fucked.

light his beard on fire. make him shave it off quick with that machete

Agreed.

[TBS]

He seems like a real peach:




Man with machete accused of starting wildfires

This story is from end of July. There have been new fires popping up near Glide in the last couple of days. Coincidence? You can bet the police have paid Mr. Fulton a visit.

[SkiBall]

chad hanson is finally weighing in on the california forest fires, at least the ones in the sierra. https://www.bakersfield.com/ap/natio...67022294b.html

as usually, he seems wrong and misguided. am i missing something? he's often argued about the benefit of catastrphic wildfires in the CA forests

It only seems like CA should be running out of places to burn I guess.

Stay safe out there peeps.

[frorider]

That’s the most “Rural Oregon Meth Guy” of all the rural Oregon meth guys.

Plus he’s a ginger

[KQ]

FD was just out for the 4th time trying to put that fire on my property to rest after having spent close to 5 hours this afternoon dozing and sawing and hosing. Ugh. Nothing like going to bed wondering if it's going to rear it's ugly head again.

[KQ]

This story is from end of July. There have been new fires popping up near Glide in the last couple of days. Coincidence? You can bet the police have paid Mr. Fulton a visit.

You've got to wonder how that incident at McDonalds would have gone had he not been white.

[TBS]

You've got to wonder how that incident at McDonalds would have gone had he not been white.

In Roseburg OR, a timber town where Blacks make up 0.82% of the population? Never would have happened. A Black man there isn’t going out at night alone, period.

[The AD]

Why does this seem to be the official "I'm a tough guy and don't give a fuck" mugshot pose?

[TBS]

FD was just out for the 4th time trying to put that fire on my property to rest after having spent close to 5 hours this afternoon dozing and sawing and hosing. Ugh. Nothing like going to bed wondering if it's going to rear it's ugly head again.

Time to add resources?

[puma]

Won't know for a few days. All the people I know there are still evac'd. The course looks to be just east of the fire perimeter so fingers crossed.

Either way, this breaks my heart. Lotta memories in the stretch between Blue River and Santiam Pass. My parents had a home on McKenzie River Drive for 35 years.

Dad was a starter at Tokatee and played just about every day - dawn patrol. I've seen elk and black bear on the fairways (we let them play through). I agree that place is a slice of heaven.

Dad's, Mom's and little Brother's ashes were spread just below the Belknap Covered Bridge - which is no more...

At least the area above McKenzie Bridge was spared...

Sorry to hear tbs.

[ill-advised strategy]

FD was just out for the 4th time trying to put that fire on my property to rest after having spent close to 5 hours this afternoon dozing and sawing and hosing. Ugh. Nothing like going to bed wondering if it's going to rear it's ugly head again.

Walk it, smell for smoke, feel for heat with your hands.
Sit out there and watch for tiny smokes, then go put them out.

Take control. You can do it!
It beats the shit outta worrying.

[KQ]

Walk it, smell for smoke, feel for heat with your hands.
Sit out there and watch for tiny smokes, then go put them out.

Take control. You can do it!
It beats the shit outta worrying.

Neighbor is back there now because his wife is worried about it. He says it looks good. He lives closer to it than I do so he can see it better/get to it faster. It's on the far north end of my property a little over a quarter mile from my house.

[Hood26]

I just watched a video of folks driving through Blue River. A significant amount of the town has been raised to the ground. I am sorry for all those folk.

[LongShortLong]

Not filtered. No one ever seen anything like this. The closest for me is St Helens eruption. I was in Eastern Wa. after the blast. This is more dramatic. The color of the light is disquieting. It feels like you are in a mad max movie.

No sun today in my slice of heaven. Heavy overcast twilight all day. Reminds me of a cold Sacramento under weeks of fog when it never cleared or rained. I'll take cold overcast vs. a Bear Fire roaring. That one was a maneater last night.

[neufox47]

No words.............this year can just go right to hell..........



BREAKING: 1-year-old who fled Cold Springs Fire with family on foot dies



MALOTT - Okanogan County Sheriff’s officials have confirmed that 1-year-old Uri Hyland, the daughter of 26-year-old Jamie and 31-year-old Jake Hyland of Renton, has died in the Cold Springs Canyon Fire.

Uri and her parents were at their property near Cameron Lake Road and Paxton Canyon Road between Omak Lake and Malott in OThe Hylands were forced to abandoned their vehicle after crashing it and was later gutted by the blaze. The family was reported missing on Monday and were found on the bank of the Columbia River by a boat patrol that was out looking for them. All three were burned. Uri was already deceased when rescuers arrived and both Jamie and Jake had 3rd degree burns. Both were airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for treatment.

Okanogan County Sheriff Tony Hawley says his department will treat this incident as a homicide unless further investigation confirms that the Cold Springs Canyon Fire was not human-caused. kanogan County when the fire surrounded them

Fuck. That’s about my worst nightmare, as someone with a 1 year old who lives in fire country. Our property is pretty well cleared but the private road we live on is a death trap. 1/2a mile of close brush, lots of it dead. I’ve talked to my wife about contingency plans but I think we need to beef up the planning.

Those poor, poor parents.

[MTT]

Nothing to add. It's getting rough. From what I see on the TV. Dam. And yes another arsonist caught