Wildland fire

[tcraft]

another year, another fire. about 1/2 mile out my back door...

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http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/3389/

[Bravo 6]

Re: Wildland fire

I worked that fire with several tankers and helicopters the day it started. They are building and working to secure indirect fire lines now. Several resources at Libby if support is needed.

[Robert Lees]

Re: Wildland fire

It could be worse...you could have yet another Tornado in Oklahoma.

Nature does what we call "wild" things, but it's all natural.

It amazes me that homes in the UK are built upon river flood plains, yet the owners complain when their homes flood.



(no, that's not me...my knees are a lot more knobbly than that!)

[tcraft]

Re: Wildland fire

The back fire they started on yesterday morning when it was cool and no wind... well anyway it got away and jumped the creek and took another mountain, and came within 150' of the gate and into a thicket of fuel on the public lands and right to my door. Good tanker work, and great ground crews saved us.


I've been flying a weedeater and a chain saw. Let me know when you want to chance places.


8 years: 2 hurricanes, 1 tropical storm, 4 wildland fires.

[astjp2]

Re: Wildland fire

We had a wild fire in Alaska, they were 2 one million acre fires that merged and burned a total of 4 million acres. It was amazing to fly for almost 150 miles on the east central part of Alaska and see the burn all around you. It would go up one face of a mountain and jump to the next mountain, leaving the leeward side untouched. The smoke was so thick that it only allows about 100 feet visability in Fairbanks and kept most of the area IFR for 2 months...you could see down through the smoke but not look across....Tim

[Robert Lees]

Re: Wildland fire

Sounds like the fog in England (but without the smell, I guess).