Fire

[NWGlockgal]

Had a large brush fire about half a mile from my house....due to a slash burn from recently logged property. Lots and lots of dry pasture could have gone up like kindling if not for our brave firefighters!

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1537581039586845

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[NWGlockgal]

I don't know why my computer keeps double posting videos....

 

[GOG]

It's Trump's fault.

I understand. I live in an extreme wildfire zone and it's scary stuff.

 

[Stomper]

Glad to hear your hacienda didn't get charred!!

 

[NWGlockgal]

It's Trump's fault.

I understand. I live in an extreme wildfire zone and it's scary stuff.

It is scary, especially when there is no water source for them to use.

 

[GOG]

What do they do for water? Air drops?

 

[NWGlockgal]

What do they do for water? Air drops?

I'm really not sure.....I did hear a helicopter flying around for quite awhile.

 

[NWGlockgal]

Glad to hear your hacienda didn't get charred!!

Who cares about the house? It's all the guns and ammo I would have been concerned with!

 

[Alexx1401]

Who cares about the house? It's all the guns and ammo I would have been concerned with!

LOL, yep I often joke that if the house is on fire it would be a matter of which guns do I run out of the house with trying to save.

 

[clearconscience]

Sorry to hear! That's pretty scary stuff.

Just wait until all the drunk solar eclipse partiers in the woods. How many wildfires will they start?
How many will be trapped?

That's going to get pretty nasty.

I hope your property and those around you are safe

 

[Provincial]

I have a truck with a 2,000 gallon tank, fire pump, hose reel, and 500 feet of extra hose. I qualifies for a Forestry fire rig, which is how I justify it, but I keep it around the home during fire season. I'm prepared for the eclipse!

 

[v0lcom13sn0w]

wow glad you are OK.

my check list of things to throw out the window first (i have a single story house btw)

kids
wife
guns

everything else is replaceable in my eyes

 

[Kruel J]

I don't know why my computer keeps double posting videos....

I fixed your OP.

 

[NWGlockgal]

I fixed your OP.

Thank you! Every time I put in a video, it shows up twice. If I delete one, it still shows up. Weird.

 

[rick benjamin]

What do they do for water? Air drops?

Brush rigs with 200 gallons water on board with hose and pump are first-in and attack the fire.
Fire crew has a 4 foot deep portable pool maybe 20 feet in diameter.
Throws it together real fast. A 6" pipe (drafting) manifold clamps to the side of the pool.
Water truck (10,000 gallons or so) backs up to pool and dumps it's load, then heads to the nearest water source to refill, returning to dump again.
Engines (pumper trucks) low on water, pull-up to the pool manifold, hook up big rigid hose (6") and suck water into it's tank,
If called for, several engines in a row will draft from pool (or pond) and push water to the next engine and on up the hill.
Each engine can deploy inch and a half hoses from the engines to cool the fire line.

Hope this was understandable,

 

[Kruel J]

Thank you! Every time I put in a video, it shows up twice. If I delete one, it still shows up. Weird.

That is weird. If it happens again, PM me and I'll fix it for you.

BTW, glad you and yours are ok!

 

[rick benjamin]

Thank you! Every time I put in a video, it shows up twice. If I delete one, it still shows up. Weird.

GGal;
What works for me is to create a link (right above the reply box in a row of tools is a chain link then a broken chain.
Highlight TVFR Windy and Hot and click the chain. Box pops up, insert the address or link and press insert.
Looks like this TVFR Windy and Hot

 

[The Heretic]

Had a large brush fire about half a mile from my house....due to a slash burn from recently logged property. Lots and lots of dry pasture could have gone up like kindling if not for our brave firefighters!

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1537581039586845

Yup, came across that Sunday after they put it out. I heard later that the ashes/etc. were blowing quite a ways away. It is a good thing the woods up here are relatively wet and they decided to burn while still wet. Last few summers it has been really dry.

Go by there every day on my way home (go down another route in the morning). I live just a little further away than you.

Saw last week they were burning the piles, then Friday it seemed the fires had burned down. But it continues to burn underground. Happened a few times over here (not far from there) when neighbors clearcut and then burnt their piles - but we were really careful and kept an eye on things and we didn't have a lot of debris by the piles - we (I helped the neighbors) pushed most of the debris into the piles. Plus our piles were not as huge as those, we had a bunch of smaller piles. I only had three - I thinned - and they didn't burn for as long.

One of the neighbor's piles did try to spread, but we got it under control.

 

[The Heretic]

The team at the Laurel firehouse is used to this. They come up here several times a year every summer. Except for some of the fields where the grass/hay has been cut already, everything is still pretty wet. Not that it wouldn't be bad, but it would be worse later in the summer when it gets really dry.

 

[NWGlockgal]

GGal;
What works for me is to create a link (right above the reply box in a row of tools is a chain link then a broken chain.
Highlight TVFR Windy and Hot and click the chain. Box pops up, insert the address or link and press insert.
Looks like this TVFR Windy and HotView attachment 372770

Yep, that is what I've been doing for years and it's only recently started doing it. Sometimes it also does double posts even though I only click once, or opens two dialogue boxes instead of one.