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Thread: Wildfire 2021
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08-15-2021, 01:49 PM #726www.skevikskis.com Check em out!
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08-15-2021, 02:00 PM #727
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08-15-2021, 02:01 PM #728
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08-15-2021, 02:02 PM #729______
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The USFS tried flying firefighters in Type 1 helicopters once. It didn’t go well and they only move people in Type 2 and 3 as far as I know.
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2008...elicopter.html
More likely they would be flying bucket support or just doing some military training in the area.
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08-15-2021, 02:05 PM #730
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08-15-2021, 02:26 PM #731
in all honesty, i have no desire to make a career out of fire. it is just something i am interested in and feel like my skills and experience would apply to.
i hear you on finding work that aligns with what i want to do later in life, but at this point i'm seriously considering a career in law and would like to live a little before i commit to that and spend my summers doing internships.
like i said, not really interested in a career. just looking for a season or two of work. that said, does working for a state agency offer any advantages for temporary seasonal work?swing your fucking sword.
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08-15-2021, 02:31 PM #732
Spent the week in the southern Wind Rivers. I guess I should have taken a conservation enforcement class before we headed out. Had to confront a group of assholes about their illegal fire in high winds and then go waste an hour of my time drenching it because the fucktards left it smoldering. The leader was an asshole to me in return. Maybe I do need to pack a gun? Not for the bears but for idiots.
The night before a dumbfuck group from Texas asked me where a firepit was so they could have a fire....ummmm no fires in the wilderness period dude. Then met with a group that had to do the same type of fire confrontation twice. That group who sort of became our trail friends for the week included a guy who had worked for the Colorado Forest service and he goes up to them with a phone video running and tells them to put it out now or the video goes straight to the ranger.
Anyway emailed forest service about this nonsense. Too little too late. I think the Winds needs permits. Next time out I'll be better prepared to deal with these pieces of human feces.
Seriously feel like their is no hope for Merica. Too many entitled selfish ignorant fuckheads who don't care about following the rules. Impossible to go anywhere without them putting our lives in peril.
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08-15-2021, 03:07 PM #733
Also could be out of date, but I was there for some of the first type one personnel transport missions on the Iron Complex in 2008. We did a few, with a couple different Carson s-61s, then a ship went down with 13 people on board and that was the end of that. And it was basically the end of my fire career, I finished that season, and dispatched a couple months the next year but I was done after that nightmare.
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08-15-2021, 03:12 PM #734
the video coming out of Parleys Canyon, UT is insane
https://twitter.com/mandeemagooo/sta...300472321?s=19
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08-15-2021, 03:27 PM #735
I recommend the non-gov contracting. They just want bodies, so it’s a quick hiring process. I did it for a couple of summers in my mid 20s. It was worth it for the experience alone. I didn’t plan for it, I’m not in a related field, sort of, but have found that wildfire fighting looks good on a resume, regardless of what you end up doing for a living. It conveys something about your character that a lot of employers find useful.
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08-15-2021, 04:43 PM #736www.skevikskis.com Check em out!
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08-15-2021, 04:45 PM #737
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08-15-2021, 05:37 PM #738
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08-15-2021, 07:48 PM #739glocal
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The Dixie Blues - AQI went well over 400 here today.
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08-15-2021, 08:53 PM #740
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08-15-2021, 09:40 PM #741
Must find a way to appease Logi. Otherwise this firestorm season will need Skadi to bring to heel.
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08-16-2021, 03:04 PM #742
Pissing rain right on the fire now. Radar looking good!
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08-16-2021, 10:46 PM #743
Schneider springs. 410 closed and homes evacuated.
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08-16-2021, 11:09 PM #744
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08-17-2021, 08:42 AM #745
Good news hefe.
Winds have shifted here, from out of the north (and SE BC smoke) to westerlies. AQI in Sisters is about 30 right now, and high temp supposed to be 65 today.
In Bend, 20 miles SE, AQI=130, as smoke from Middle Fork Complex about 50 miles west is funneling through the gap between S Sister and Bachelor.
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08-17-2021, 08:51 AM #746
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08-17-2021, 09:57 AM #747
Shoot, if you think we got it bad google Siberia wildfires. Over 10 million acres are burning there.
We are so fucked.dirtbag, not a dentist
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08-17-2021, 10:35 AM #748
Yesterday AM before the sun/wind got to it.
Smoke/heat poking a hole in a lenticular above it.
From the other side in the late afternoon…
From Whistlin’ Jack’s (not my photo)
Have a friend who lives in the evac zone. I spend quite a bit of time down on that part of 410. Hoping the wx the next few days cooperates.
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08-17-2021, 10:44 AM #749
Patarero, awesome Rainier lenticular/pyrocumulus cloud. Never scene that before.
Is 410 closed due to that fire? I thought only Bumping Lake Road was closed. Does look like the fire is very close to 410 right now. The campground and the leased forest service cabins on the north shore of the lake still look safe for now. Fire is on Little Bald Mountain and starting to chew up the mountain bike trail there.
https://mappingsupport.com/p2/gissur...dland_fire.txt
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08-17-2021, 12:36 PM #750
Wow are those lenticulars forming over the pryocumulus from the fire?
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