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Then you need to take a close look at the cluster f that is the Chetco Bar fire in the Brookings area.
This is a fire that started in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness over 6 weeks ago and could have been stomped on in about 3 days with aviation assets, but hell no, they had to let it run in the wilderness and now it is over 100,000 acres within 4 miles of the City of Brookings, in the county of Curry and both are ill prepared to do anything other than hope they can stop this.
The entire Incident Management Team was replaced with a new team this last Wednesday and this was a mere foot note in the InciWeb reports, but is something I have not seen in over 30 years of following wildland fires. There clearly was some kind of problem that precipitated this replacement. You did not hear a damn thing about this in the media.
It is clearly a political thing. If they had prosecuted this fire correctly from the start, this whole situation would not be happening. The fact that this fire is now the #1 priority nation wide speaks volumes. If the fire reaches Brookings and you start loosing structures, there will be political hell to pay,and a lot of it should fall on the state governor and her failure to stop this threat.
South Coast Lumber in Brookings has lost thousands of acres of harvestable timber and thousands of potential harvests down the road. This is going to be a huge blow to the local economy there, what is left of it after the Feds shut down timber harvests and let the fuel loads build.
How the hell could you expect the government to affect any kind of infrastructure protection or reestablishment if the amount of resources they have and are throwing at this fire have produced 0% containment after 6 weeks ?? i have fought wild land fires, I have fought structure fires..you do not f around with them. You throw everything you have at them to start with. You can send everybody who is coming home if you do not need them. The beast will get you unless you get it first.
That is an area that has had it's economic azz kicked time and time again. We have family there, I have ran those hills and rivers, and farmed those fields. Isolated from the major areas and forgotten by the governments, the people are a tough bunch who don't much care for a lot of law enforcement and government interference, but the land and people of Curry County have been screwed by the Oregon government.
One last question to pose...how the hell is there over 320,000 acres in Oregon on fire, more than all other states combined, and no end to the problem in sight ??
If a situation where 320,000 acres are involved, and they cannot get a hand on that how would they handle some type of region wide natural disaster ?? Case closed.
End of rant.
This is a fire that started in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness over 6 weeks ago and could have been stomped on in about 3 days with aviation assets, but hell no, they had to let it run in the wilderness and now it is over 100,000 acres within 4 miles of the City of Brookings, in the county of Curry and both are ill prepared to do anything other than hope they can stop this.
The entire Incident Management Team was replaced with a new team this last Wednesday and this was a mere foot note in the InciWeb reports, but is something I have not seen in over 30 years of following wildland fires. There clearly was some kind of problem that precipitated this replacement. You did not hear a damn thing about this in the media.
It is clearly a political thing. If they had prosecuted this fire correctly from the start, this whole situation would not be happening. The fact that this fire is now the #1 priority nation wide speaks volumes. If the fire reaches Brookings and you start loosing structures, there will be political hell to pay,and a lot of it should fall on the state governor and her failure to stop this threat.
South Coast Lumber in Brookings has lost thousands of acres of harvestable timber and thousands of potential harvests down the road. This is going to be a huge blow to the local economy there, what is left of it after the Feds shut down timber harvests and let the fuel loads build.
How the hell could you expect the government to affect any kind of infrastructure protection or reestablishment if the amount of resources they have and are throwing at this fire have produced 0% containment after 6 weeks ?? i have fought wild land fires, I have fought structure fires..you do not f around with them. You throw everything you have at them to start with. You can send everybody who is coming home if you do not need them. The beast will get you unless you get it first.
That is an area that has had it's economic azz kicked time and time again. We have family there, I have ran those hills and rivers, and farmed those fields. Isolated from the major areas and forgotten by the governments, the people are a tough bunch who don't much care for a lot of law enforcement and government interference, but the land and people of Curry County have been screwed by the Oregon government.
One last question to pose...how the hell is there over 320,000 acres in Oregon on fire, more than all other states combined, and no end to the problem in sight ??
If a situation where 320,000 acres are involved, and they cannot get a hand on that how would they handle some type of region wide natural disaster ?? Case closed.
End of rant.
