Fire

[Drptrch]

Rx burn on the Shasta got a little sideways.
https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/5761/42743/

Those sneaky winds again ))


Erik

 

[TBS]

Just a few bonus acres.

 

[Drptrch]

2015 Mad River Complex and Ruth Lake Fires.
So desperate for engines they kept our Type1 Strike team for 6 weeks.
We shuttled our own water from Ruth lake, filled pumpkins, relay pumped ridge line hose lays for structure protection, did Hydro-mine mop-up with Stanislaus Shots and 2 Cal fire crews w/uninterrupted water supply from Ruth lake (think the water level dropped a little)

Hyampom Airport

Erik

 

[Drptrch]

Short version:


Full version w/ first account speaking:


I Just re-ran across this. I was a medic on this fire and sent-from my division on opposite side of fire to meet up with Branch and rescue resources just below entrapment. They ended up being brought safely out the top of the fire. Our access point was blocked by the flame front. I ended up transporting the three to the local ER for a medical check after a quick Debrief w/ the IMT. A very humbling experience and a long nite.

There live camera footage of the events became a “Lessons Learned” episode.

A T-cell has moved over the fire and it was raining on the right side of the fire where we had been







Erik

 

[TBS]

And so it begins on the Sequoia National Forest. The Wood fire started on the 27th and did little has decided to go for a run.

From Bald mountain lookout.
https://rockyags.cr.usgs.gov/cgi-bi...ntain_5&visible=false&date=20180530&frame=151

 

[TBS]

Shot from bald mountain.

 

[TBS]

Shot from bald mountain.
View attachment 655150

Fulton, Horseshoe, Breckenridge, Springville, and Whiskey flat wfm crew burned the box today from sherman pass road. Really big box for a 1/2 acre fire.

 

[madhatte]

News here: the Eagle Creek fire in the Columbia River gorge from last fall has had a few flare-ups, not surprisingly. Surprisingly? I went away for a few days to visit with navy friends and when I came back the road edges everywhere have started to brown a month early. We should be deep in greenup, not starting dryout. This bodes ill as we are shorter-staffed than usual. The turn took 5 days. I'm not alarmed, exactly, but it has my attention.

 

[RandyMac]

Still kinda damp here, weed growth was intense this year with the late rain.

 

[Skeans]

Running last Friday I was about a 3 days or so of the yarding with the slash turning brown/red by the time the yarding had started.


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[RandyMac]

It'd be nice not to get smoked out this year.

 

[TBS]

The Ute Park fire in New Mexico is past 5,000 acres now.

 

[RandyMac]

Locally, the rainfall for May was 17% of average, fire season will be early and probably long.

 

[TBS]

We had another escaped control burn today north of bass lake. 6 acres outside the line. The hills west of coalinga are burning again due to the airline and eastern fires. 600 acres so far.

 

[Drptrch]

We had another escaped control burn today north of bass lake. 6 acres outside the line. The hills west of coalinga are burning again due to the airline and eastern fires. 600 acres so far.

Out by Oneils also ?


Erik

 

[TBS]

Out by Oneils also ?


Erik

Yep, I had a great view of that one.

 

[Drptrch]

Today: Massive pallet fire in Schellville, Sonoma County, Ca


Happened a couple years ago also

Erik

 

[Drptrch]

Just back from King City fire at noon and 4:00 dispatch for wind driven fire on San Rafael Hill in Marin County. 2nd alarm w/full county dispatch, 2 fixed wing and 1 rotor w/crew

and a little late night clean-up

Erik

 

[Drptrch]

Mount Tamalpais in background and it’s L/O

Erik

 

[2dogs]

The Airline and Eastern fires were right in the area I spent my summers as a kid up through high school. I lived on the ranch directly across the river from Beaver Dam station. I took lots of bucks there over the years to have the tags signed off. I also lived at Bitterwater Station. My cousins still have 640 acres in Bitterwater.