Was just woken at 11:30 our mountain is burning and has gotten worse.
Sounds like they started firing operations and are back burning. It really surprises me how the state DOF can’t figure out when to back burn, like on an initial attack.
No roads to the fire so they had to wait for it to come off the mountain to back burn? That BS, tool up, grab the drip torches, and form a hand crew. Sadly, a lot of regular firefighters are novices when it comes to wildfire. It’s not that different in that the fire triangle is the same. Putting fires out with shovels and Pulaski, back burning, putting fires out with no water is basic stuff. These guys don’t know the basics so how would they ever “get back to basics”. We call these guys pavement queens. They don’t take their trucks off road, to scared to step out into this….
Last two pics are at 10-12,000 ft ASL. We were there one day after the lightning started fire and it a skunking, do nothing fire. East coast fire folks really need to beef up that Wildland fire system due to a serious uptick in droughts and fires. Perhaps they should send guys out to the west to train?
Sounds like they started firing operations and are back burning. It really surprises me how the state DOF can’t figure out when to back burn, like on an initial attack.
No roads to the fire so they had to wait for it to come off the mountain to back burn? That BS, tool up, grab the drip torches, and form a hand crew. Sadly, a lot of regular firefighters are novices when it comes to wildfire. It’s not that different in that the fire triangle is the same. Putting fires out with shovels and Pulaski, back burning, putting fires out with no water is basic stuff. These guys don’t know the basics so how would they ever “get back to basics”. We call these guys pavement queens. They don’t take their trucks off road, to scared to step out into this….
Last two pics are at 10-12,000 ft ASL. We were there one day after the lightning started fire and it a skunking, do nothing fire. East coast fire folks really need to beef up that Wildland fire system due to a serious uptick in droughts and fires. Perhaps they should send guys out to the west to train?