Wildfire 2021

**old_newguy** · 08-20-2021, 10:28 AM

Originally Posted by MagnificentUnicorn

Excellent. It’s terrible over here.

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Yeah, I’ll just have to get a second home over there for the non Smokey season (LOL, i wish).

I’ve sucked enough smoke in my past I’m pretty sensitive to it now, spots in lungs, etc.

**muted reborn** · 08-20-2021, 02:56 PM

Currently watching a fire on a webcam as I work....will the webcam go offline in the next hour? Maybe.

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**muted reborn** · 08-20-2021, 03:51 PM

Fire porn, happening now!

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**MTT** · 08-20-2021, 04:14 PM

There is not as much coverage on the Calder fire as I thought there would be
Here today it’s 76 deg and hardly any smoke
It’s a beautiful day. I feel kinda guilty knowing people are losing their homes as I type this

**muted reborn** · 08-20-2021, 04:28 PM

Ah, I'm learning these pics I'm posting are a few meters from a mom and pop ski area called "Alta Sierra". Shitty, it has to be gone now. All from a new fire called the French fire that started 2 days ago, about to be another major fire in CA.

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Looks like the webcams may survive.

**MTT** · 08-20-2021, 08:07 PM

Just got an emergency alert
Taylorville. Mandatory evacuation
Guess it’s going to burn

**bodywhomper** · 08-20-2021, 10:40 PM

Good interview of the kqed science reporter about wildfires in CA: discusses better relevant reporting, rx burning, how we think about smoke, and federal employee pay: https://www.kqed.org/news/11885698/h...-c4PKkL1qQt8-8

**Meadow Skipper** · 08-21-2021, 10:40 AM

Originally Posted by MTT

Just got an emergency alert
Taylorville. Mandatory evacuation
Guess it’s going to burn

Fuck, that makes me sad(der) - back in the day, I had some really great times at the Taylorsville Grange Hall. It has/had one of those old times sprung floors - dances and benefits there were a blast.

This thing might take out the whole Gennesee Valley, which would be a tragedy.

**splat** · 08-21-2021, 10:43 AM

The town and bar go off during the rodeo. Got a Silver Buckle Rodeo shirt in the closet.
Took my French interns there once. Oh, fuck, did shit go off.

**stealurface831** · 08-21-2021, 11:45 AM

Just got an emergency alert through my car’s navigation system saying something about a large fire along I-25 north of Casper but I can’t find anything about it anywhere. Anyone know anything?

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**Meadow Skipper** · 08-21-2021, 12:42 PM

Originally Posted by splat

The town and bar go off during the rodeo. Got a Silver Buckle Rodeo shirt in the closet.
Took my French interns there once. Oh, fuck, did shit go off.

One night a really nice woman took me home to Quincy from some T-ville Grange Hall dance one night. Barely made it back to work in time the next morning at the Antelope Lake FS station. Good, good times in T-Ville.

Less than 8 years later it turned out I'd hired her sister (different last name) to work on my fire crew in AK. Coulda knocked me over with a feather, small world.

What a sad thing this fire is.

**muted reborn** · 08-22-2021, 06:10 PM

I'm surprised there is not any local chatter here about the Caldor Fire.

PB · 08-22-2021, 07:19 PM

Perhaps over on the local thread?

**muted reborn** · 08-22-2021, 07:48 PM

D'oh. I looked at the Ski/Board page to see if the Tahoe thread was on it, didn't see it. Fail on my part.

**TBS** · 08-23-2021, 07:50 AM

And now the Boundary Waters in MN is closed due to fire danger
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/0...ed-fire-danger

**ill-advised strategy** · 08-23-2021, 08:00 AM

Re: north midwest
Yeah, it’s dry up here, with tall dry grass and wind. There is potential for significant fire.

It’s supposed to be kinda spotty random rain and more humid, and “the turn” is either now or really soon…so this period of concern is probably short-lived.

**zion zig zag** · 08-23-2021, 08:21 AM

**MTT** · 08-23-2021, 08:27 AM

I’m not bitching cuz my house is not going to burn

Woke up this morning to smoke that looks more like a fog
Never been in air this bad
So as I went outside my lungs started burning. It’s very uncomfortable. I hear it’s even worse south of me. South Tahoe and gardnerville
Candor fire now over 100,000 0% contained

**bodywhomper** · 08-23-2021, 08:55 AM

Originally Posted by zion zig zag

I heard an executive of that institute speak last year. They are pushing now for 5-foot hardscape buffers and minimizing the use of flammable mulch in the 10-foot buffer around structures.

**Hopeless Sinner** · 08-23-2021, 01:06 PM

Originally Posted by bodywhomper

I heard an executive of that institute speak last year. They are pushing now for 5-foot hardscape buffers and minimizing the use of flammable mulch in the 10-foot buffer around structures.

Thats good to know.

**neufox47** · 08-23-2021, 08:49 PM

Originally Posted by Hopeless Sinner

Thats good to know.

There’s a ton of information available from California building departments and other government agencies.

The house I recently bought has a ton of mature landscaping within 10 feet. It is all irrigated and seems pretty resistant to fire (I took some green leaves and tried to burn them), but I have no idea how I’d remove it to 5 feet without the house looking like shit. The biggest weakness is the large 6-8ft shrubs that grow by the deck that is 6-8ft up. If that deck goes I’m sure the house goes. The insurance paradox though is that if my house gets hit by an ember storm and sustains some fire damage, I think I’d rather it burns to the ground.

**Hopeless Sinner** · 08-23-2021, 09:00 PM

Originally Posted by neufox47

There’s a ton of information available from California building departments and other government agencies.

The house I recently bought has a ton of mature landscaping within 10 feet. It is all irrigated and seems pretty resistant to fire (I took some green leaves and tried to burn them), but I have no idea how I’d remove it to 5 feet without the house looking like shit. The biggest weakness is the large 6-8ft shrubs that grow by the deck that is 6-8ft up. If that deck goes I’m sure the house goes. The insurance paradox though is that if my house gets hit by an ember storm and sustains some fire damage, I think I’d rather it burns to the ground.

We have a bunch of 30 year old shrubs that are totally shot around parts of the house. They are coming out this fall and not going to be replaced.

I think we're going to have to adjust our sense of what looks good so we have a chance of our homes surviving fire, it's only a matter of time for most of us westerners.

**bodywhomper** · 08-23-2021, 10:46 PM

There are several large and medium sized stumps within 10 feet of my house, deck, well house, or garage. There are probably 50-60 stumps of young pine and incense cedar within 30 feet from the playhouse structure that sits above my buried water tank. Of the big stumps by the house, a black oak, I still have sad remorse. But we felled it because it was crowding out some better trees further away from the structure (large madrone and a sugar pine). It took a while to get used to the sudden change, but the brain adjusts. You still can’t see my roof from google earth.

**Not DJSapp** · 08-24-2021, 02:20 PM

Caldor fire is now ~5 miles from both Sierra at Tahoe and Kirkwood. Very little in the way to stop it from getting to Sierra either. Kirkwood has half a chance with the 2019 caples burn scar in the way, and highway 88 if you can call that an obstacle.

How about that open bowl skiing folks?