Milepost 97 Fire by Canyonville

[CountryGent]

LOL, OK, this may be a little silly ... I fell asleep whilst reading an alternative history book followed by a SHTF text. The dream was of a bunch of scantily-clad, dancing brunettes in the desert whilst helicopters soared over their heads (yah, I know, I'm a man). I was awoken from my vino and sun induced slumber to realize the choppers were real and the noise up the hill was being produce by a very large mammal (I'm guessing the she-bear) heading my way. I opted to go inside. The wife was only mildly annoyed at my report.

 

[CountryGent]

More seriously: Stuck in the smoke, homeless prepare with nowhere to shelter

Here's hoping they get this nailed down sooner rather than later. (I heard back from the ARES director. I'll be helping with the wireless soon enough.)

 

[TeacherSmurf]

Community Meeting - July 28 - 7pm - Glendale High School

They are supposed to be answering questions there as well.

 

[nammac]

Drove I5 through that area this morning, they were still choppering buckets of water. Pretty sizable and spread out fire, from the edge of the highway to the ridge... Looked as if it's spread along that ridge, but it also looked to be spotty and pretty spread out... Dense smoke this morning at about 11:00 when we went through there. Man, that smoke seems to go forever, down to Shasta.

Stay safe, stay aware, stay armed....

 

[CountryGent]

Agreed, my amigo @nammac. I'm see waves of bucket equipped choppers zooming over our plot. Here's hoping they get it extinguished soon.

 

[CountryGent]

There is an interactive map here.

 

[CountryGent]

One my better half (@TeacherSmurf ) took a few minutes ago.

 

[CountryGent]

• Milepost 97 fire flares, smokes and gets expensive
• No end in sight for Southern Oregon smoke

 

[nammac]

Not good news, sounds like we need a few days of rain to get things back under control...

 

[HotRodGuy]

Been watching the smoke off and on. Also watching the helicopters going up to get water then back down to drop it.
Crappy situation.

 

[CountryGent]

Looks like they are making progress, with containment at 15%. Anyone driving through the area on the Five should be aware of delays: Milepost 97 Fire: Crews make progress on containment, now 15%

 

[tac]

Good luck to our brave fire crews, chopper/fixed wing water-dumpers and LEOs.

 

[CountryGent]

Parts of I5 southbound looked like a parking lot. Just a heads up to anyone traveling in these parts.

 

[Pandaz3]

Several times now a fire fighting plane flew over our humble hacienda. I took this one whilst reading outside:

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a pIston powered DC7 it looks like, probably Butler Aviation in Madras on a State contract (USFS will not contract these great firebombers, but the State will. One of the few things Oregon does right.) We were thinking of going there Thursday (Canyonville) not now though.

 

[CountryGent]

From the National Weather Service: Air Quality Advisory extended to Thursday for southwest Oregon due to Milepost 97 Fire

"Smoke from the Milepost 97 fire will continue to push south and southeast into portions of Josephine and Jackson county in the late afternoons and evenings with widespread light to moderate smoke during the mornings. This pattern is expected to continue through at least Thursday"

 

[CountryGent]

Latest: Nine Firefighters Injured at Milepost 97 Fire

 

[TeacherSmurf]

Just looked up the latest incident report. Not much to say other than that they are doing their best to keep it away from communities.

This was from today. Looks a lot better on our side than last week.

 

[RVTECH]

Had this pop up Sunday afternoon jusr east of me near Paulina lake but they got it contained at 190 acres by Tuesday.

 

[CountryGent]

Latest is they have it 25% contained. 12,336 acres burned.

 

[CountryGent]

Up to 30% containment now. Smoke Smothers SW Oregon As Firefighters Gain Ground On Milepost 97 Fire