Fire

[2dogs]

You northerners probably heard a firefighter died while taking the pack test in Wyoming. Don't know the details.

Firefighting is dangerous enough without being in poor physical condition, not that I should talk. However for you contractors and agency guys/gals do be serious about getting into and remaining in top shape this fire season. At 61 I have hella time getting ion shape.

 

[2dogs]

Air strike!

Yeah!!! A reverse firefighting air strike. Instead of an air tanker, request napalm and like Randy said let it burn.

Poison Oak used to be the number one cause of workers' comp claims. It changed to "stress" about 30 years ago. I don't know what is first now.

 

[Gologit]

Frustration?

 

[Gologit]

Even that's not enough, at least not immediately -- the dead stems can still give a rash for several years! I HATE poison-oak!

MORE herbicide! And then, like 2dogs said, a napalm airstrike.

 

[KenJax Tree]

Yeah!!! A reverse firefighting air strike. Instead of an air tanker, request napalm and like Randy said let it burn.

Poison Oak used to be the number one cause of workers' comp claims. It changed to "stress" about 30 years ago. I don't know what is first now.

Stupidity has to be up there in every occupation


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[madhatte]

MORE herbicide! And then, like 2dogs said, a napalm airstrike.

You won't see me arguing. I break out just thinking about that stuff. *shudder*

 

[Gologit]

You won't see me arguing. I break out just thinking about that stuff. *shudder*

Same here. I was fine for years and never had a problem with it. Then one year I got down wind from a burn and got just enough smoke exposure to make me sick.
Since then...well, I don't even like to think about that stuff.

 

[Metals406]

We're not on fire yet.

Another reason I love Montanny. . . No poison oak.

Sounds like I never want to even lay eyes on that stuff.

I didn't hear about the pack test death in WY, but that should fuel the fire for the ones pushing fir more and more regs. Pretty soon, they'll have to use robots -- nobody will qualify for fire duty.

 

[RandyMac]

 

[stikine]

I read somewhere that something like 60% of wildland fire hospitalization injuries were due to inhaling poison-oak smoke. I'll look around a bit to see if I can substantiate that number, but even if it's urban mythology, it still makes me nervous. We don't have anywhere near as much of the stuff here as there is in CA or even OR, but I do run into it, and in fire-prone places. Here's some I found last week on a burned-over site just opposite, and only about 100 yards from, a place that burns almost every year.

EDIT: notice the little white spangly bits? That's flowers. There will be more of the stuff next year.

yuck, haven't seen that stuff since 1986! You all can keep that stuff down in the states...I'll take the brown bears and devils club and be happy!

 

[2dogs]

That is one fine looking job there. Did you find that in an old burn? Or is that the half-Humboldt cut?

 

[madhatte]

Looks to be deciding between "teeter" and "totter". Surely gravity will win either way.

 

[RandyMac]

It was in an old burn, it needed a bit of tapping to go. My Grandad wanted it down, to keep deer out of his Boletus patch.

 

[slowp]

Here we go. Two Bulls Fire, west of Bend, OR.
http://www.ktvz.com/news/two-brushfires-break-out-west-of-bend/26382078

 

[Metals406]

Yikes, purdy early fer Oregon.

 

[RandyMac]

We are getting a fair amount of smoke from the Orygun fires.

 

[madhatte]

We saw two small fires last week and a third the week before. Early here, too.

 

[Gologit]

Nothing going on down here. Yet. All the SoCal fires are contained.
I walked a sale yesterday and the woods have that "hot" smell...I don't have the words to describe it but you know what I'm talking about.

 

[RandyMac]

Nothing going on down here. Yet. All the SoCal fires are contained.
I walked a sale yesterday and the woods have that "hot" smell...I don't have the words to describe it but you know what I'm talking about.

I miss how the woods smell through the seasons.

 

[2dogs]

I know that smell. To me it is sweet, I can almost taste it. Like chewing on wild oats.