2020 Wildfire Season

[Lone Star]

Seems appropriate.

while I somehow didn't burn down the river bottom the first time I decided to throw fireworks into the bushes, and didn't die the first time i got into icy steep terrain i didnt know like i should...... i sure do like to wish just desserts upon other people when they make such ignorant, clueless mistakes...

[KQ]

while I somehow didn't burn down the river bottom the first time I decided to throw fireworks into the bushes, and didn't die the first time i got into icy steep terrain i didnt know like i should...... i sure do like to wish just desserts upon other people when they make such ignorant, clueless mistakes...

Yeah I know, none of us are perfect. Even the best of us make mistakes. I remember reading about a grass fire that started from cars being parked on dry vegetation at a firefighters annual barbeque. d'Oh!

[muted]

What is up with So Cal? 3 major fires going right now?. FYI. I just started smelling the smoke from the Loyalton fire. And hear thunder at the same time. They say it's headed into Dog Valley now. It's really dry up there.

Mot likely lightening strikes from storms created by a tropical storm to the south.

[bodywhomper]

SEAT approaching the Jones Fire

And vlog by the great Juan Browne

https://www.facebook.com/10000746833...IudUsFEyqs&d=n

[bodywhomper]

CalFire made a large evacuation areas (mandatory and warning) for the Jones Fire. 4,000 homes under mandatory evacuation and 12,000 homes under evacuation warning. It got windy this afternoon and the fire picked up for a little while. I'm right on the edge of the evacuation area. Literally, i walked into it to get my mail from the box. Hoping for the best.

[Meadow Skipper]

National Preparedness Level raised to 5 (out of 5). Generally means that military is being mobilized to address resource shortages.
https://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/nfn.htm

[splat]

The fucking govt made the process to contract with the FS so convoluted, I dropped off contract this year because I forgot to submit a photo of my truck, which was a new requirement this year for the three year contracts I would be working under now.

I saw correspondence amongst the COs that they were advertising for contractors because so many have decided the bureaucracy has become has unbearable (and its also unsustainable), but they keep piling more shit into the process to make sure that, eventually, one large national company will take over as the forests get privatized.

[Meadow Skipper]

@splat, I forget what your business is - showers?

[char_]

National Preparedness Level raised to 5 (out of 5). Generally means that military is being mobilized to address resource shortages.
https://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/nfn.htm

NorCal got ~6000 strikes in the last 24.

[Meadow Skipper]

NorCal seems fucked.
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/articl...cuation-zones/

[wendigo]

damn

http://api.nvseismolab.org/camera/Axis-MtVaca8

[PB]

We don't have fires any more - now they're complexes and zones aka ......Hell.

[PB]

Damn ; haven't seen the sun all day, continuous light ash fall, car headlights on at 4:30

[Meadow Skipper]

More bad mega-level news for CA. Shit’s ripping.
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...vacaville/amp/

[splat]

@splat, I forget what your business is - showers?

Ground support. Said fuck it and sold my truck yesterday.

[Meadow Skipper]

Ground support. Said fuck it and sold my truck yesterday.

Ah, okay. Good luck with the next venture.

[PB]

More bad mega-level news for CA. Shit’s ripping.
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...vacaville/amp/

Yah; friends of ours in Lake County have avoided serious damage in all of the last 10 years of mega-fires, but we just got word that their entire property including all buildings is gone. Were able to get their horses out, fortunately.

[char_]

Seem to be killing a lot of helicopter pilots this year.

[Meadow Skipper]

Yah; friends of ours in Lake County have avoided serious damage in all of the last 10 years of mega-fires, but we just got word that their entire property including all buildings is gone. Were able to get their horses out, fortunately.

Seem to be killing a lot of helicopter pilots this year.

So much bad news. I’m sorry to hear both of those.

[abraham]

What's the best way to keep abreast of current fire size/location? My sister's had to pack up and prepare to leave and I figure I should watch from a distance instead of my parents worrying too much

[John_B]

Caltopo plus Google Maps base layer plus "Fire Activty" check box. Depending on fire location and jurisdiction Inciweb is a good bet for the morning updates.

[abraham]

Thanks, that's the one I couldn't think of earlier.

[~mikey b]

safe in my spot at the moment if anyone needs a place to evac to

[old goat]

Caltopo plus Google Maps base layer plus "Fire Activty" check box. Depending on fire location and jurisdiction Inciweb is a good bet for the morning updates.

Inciweb for federal fires, state fire agency I would assume for other fires. Calfire in CA.
Excellent map in this article (about the Lake/sonoma/napa counties fire) for the Natl interagency Fire Center site but I can't find it on the site.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/californ...k=bignews_main

[Lone Star]

grrr. so sad that it's still so hard to get fire information. inciweb's interface is worse than two years ago and if you have some kind of incident managed by somebody like Calfire it is on their own equally terrible website. absolutely mind-blowing with today's technology that it's so difficult to get the most current information from a fire. for fuck's sake even an instagram video of the entire morning briefing would be an improvement for a whole hell of a lot of large incidents.