Wildfire 2021

[Meadow Skipper]

… I just don’t ever recall meeting one who wasn’t DIVS quald at least. Hell, lots of times it was a superintendent running the DIV while the captains ran the crew.

That’s how I remember it.

[KQ]

[ill-advised strategy]

Take it from me, it ain’t easy being a burley man.

[summit]

That's a light sentence for arson

[KQ]

Lewiston, ID and Clarkston, WA with fire above on the Washington side.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Shit.

[KQ]

Shit.

Hell's Canyon for sure, eh?

[Conundrum]

Hell's Canyon for sure, eh?

Is that the Asotin fire? Or did one move into Hells? I was down there in mid June and it was the hottest and driest I’ve seen it ever. I grew up about 1.5 hrs from there and have been floating it for 20 years since I moved so yeah, scary dry.

[Hopeless Sinner]

That's a light sentence for arson

Typical federal judge wrt F&G or public land violations. I had a couple cases were the ticketed party admitted to what they had done to the judge and they walked or got a slap on the wrist.

[KQ]

Is that the Asotin fire? Or did one move into Hells? I was down there in mid June and it was the hottest and driest I’ve seen it ever. I grew up about 1.5 hrs from there and have been floating it for 20 years since I moved so yeah, scary dry.

I belive it's the Silcott Fire west of Clarkson but I'm not sure.


Asotin County Fire Update: Silcott Fire Now 80% Contained With No Further Growth Expected; Dry Gulch Fire Continues to Burn Westward

[Falcon3]

Typical federal judge wrt F&G or public land violations. I had a couple cases were the ticketed party admitted to what they had done to the judge and they walked or got a slap on the wrist.

Yeah the fed natural resource justice system is pretty fucked. They want big investigation cases for major crimes because that’s what they’re used to dealing with.

Send them resource violations and they don’t really give a shit. Even finding an AUSA to take a lot of these cases to court can be difficult.

[TBS]

Is that the Asotin fire? Or did one move into Hells? I was down there in mid June and it was the hottest and driest I’ve seen it ever. I grew up about 1.5 hrs from there and have been floating it for 20 years since I moved so yeah, scary dry.

I belive it's the Silcott Fire west of Clarkson but I'm not sure.


Asotin County Fire Update: Silcott Fire Now 80% Contained With No Further Growth Expected; Dry Gulch Fire Continues to Burn Westward

The Snake River Complex is also going on in the north end of the canyon near Craig Mountain . 40k acres burned so far. Grass and timber. Evacuation in place. Not much you can do under these conditions.
https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7636/

[shroom]

smokey in Wallace today too. lotta action, don’t like it

[TBS]

^^^You should be reading this if you’re in Wallace

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003WJQ7JO...ng=UTF8&btkr=1

[LHutz Esq]

Yep - BC is hard up when they call the lawyer to act as a structure protection specialist!

But I think we made some nice sets. Hopefully they aren’t tested but if they are here’s a prayer that they work as designed.

Had an exciting first 48 hours - things were calmer today.

[Meadow Skipper]

Crash of air attack aircraft in Arizona kills two aerial firefighters
RIP

[beer30]

^^^You should be reading this if you’re in Wallace

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003WJQ7JO...ng=UTF8&btkr=1

Great book!

[Conundrum]

The Snake River Complex is also going on in the north end of the canyon near Craig Mountain . 40k acres burned so far. Grass and timber. Evacuation in place. Not much you can do under these conditions.
https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7636/

Bummer. Lots of conservation work has been going on there in recent years. Pretty area too.

[KQ]

^^^You should be reading this if you’re in Wallace

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003WJQ7JO...ng=UTF8&btkr=1

If you like his work check out this book - very good read. About a murder that took place in Spokane WA in 1935

[Core Shot]

I told my boss “I could strangle you, go to jail, and my life wouldn’t even be any different….”

.

Sigworthy

[KQ]

Bootleg Fire, SW Oregon


Oregon's Bootleg Fire more than triples in size to 143,607 acres

(CNN)The Bootleg Fire in Oregon has more than tripled in size since Friday, gaining more than 100,000 acres, according to the US Forest Service.

The fire had burned 143,607 acres as of Sunday morning, up from nearly 39,000 acres on Friday, the latest update from the service's InciWeb website shows.

The fire, which is in the Fremont-Winema National Forest in the southwest of the state, broke out July 6 and "continues to burn actively," according to Sunday's update.

Officials expect the fire to be contained by July 27.

The cause of the fire is unknown.

According to a news release issued Saturday evening, conditions "were so extreme that firefighters needed to disengage and move to predetermined safety zones."

[Meadow Skipper]

Bootleg Fire, SW Oregon

The fire had burned 143,607 acres as of Sunday morning, up from nearly 39,000 acres on Friday, the latest update from the service's InciWeb website shows.

These things blow my mind. I pencil-whipped that growth as roughly 1 acre/second.
(143,000-38,000)divided by 86,400 seconds per day. An acre is somewhat larger than a football field.

Think about that - an average of more than a football field per second. We’re fuct.

[ntblanks]

Here's a time lapse of what that burn growth rate looks like
https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink/top...hare_fid=28572

[Meadow Skipper]

Here's a time lapse of what that burn growth rate looks like
https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink/top...hare_fid=28572

That link doesn’t take me there.

Crash of air attack aircraft in Arizona kills two aerial firefighters
RIP

Air Attack Pilot and ATGS (air tactical group supervisor) identified. I knew the ATGS, which makes it suck even more.

Pilot Matthew Miller, 48, and Air Tactical Group Supervisor Jeff Piechura, 62, were on board a Beechcraft King Air C-90 aircraft conducting visual reconnaissance and aviation command and control over the fire. Mr. Miller was a fire pilot with Falcon Executive Aviation, Inc. contracted by the U.S. Forest Service. Mr. Piechura was an employee with the Coronado National Forest. Their remains have been recovered from the accident site.

https://wildfiretoday.com/2021/07/11...en-identified/

It’s been a bad year for wildfire aircraft…so far.

[ntblanks]

That link doesn’t take me there.

tried to upload the image here. way too large (31mb).
put it on google drive:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16QP...pSqSzZBIp/view
(op by b0ardski)