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Wildfire season thread

Maddevill said:
I've been noticing that lately there is almost no coverage of the Dixie Fire.
I guess I understand how much attachment is for Tahoe so here's your brief update.
Currently almost 866,000 acres. Containment now reaching 55%
Still very active in the north and east zones. Still threatening Portola and Davis Lake area and the 395 corridor. Crews are in Lassen Park cutting down dead trees to make it safer for firefighters. I heard that it has burned almost 54% of the park but mostly in the eastern section.

Mad
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The Lookout guy on YouTube did a good overview of the Dixie yesterday. This guy is so thorough, been really enjoying his stuff...

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https://youtu.be/lZL4mVNFeTA
 
How South Lake Tahoe was saved from the Caldor Fire
On Friday morning, the daily reports showed that only 2,200 acres had burned in the prior 24 hours — a fraction of the acreage compared to Sunday night. The fire is 29% contained. One fire official mentioned that luck played a big role in averting a major crisis this week. Others said that the winds didn’t wreck the havoc many feared.

Parker Wilbourn, spokesperson for Cal Fire, says that there were three big factors to the success of this week.

First, the progress on the Caldor Fire could not have happened without the sheer number of firefighters, engines, helicopters, bulldozers and other resources. Over the course of the week, nearly a thousand more firefighters arrived; at the peak, firefighter boots on the ground numbered 4,451.

“Oh, it’s made an incredible difference,” Wilbourn said. “We have 523 fire engines on this incident. We’ve got 84 water tenders, 27 helicopters, 62 hand crews and 95 dozers. So we have a tremendous amount of resources fighting this fire.”
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Looks like luck with the wind and a shit-ton of resources saved S Lake Tahoe along with efforts of the last decade to reduce burnable material after a fire in 2007.

I don't even want to try to guess how much it cost to do all of that, but it worked, so far.
 
Climber said:
Looks like luck with the wind and a shit-ton of resources saved S Lake Tahoe along with efforts of the last decade to reduce burnable material after a fire in 2007.

I don't even want to try to guess how much it cost to do all of that, but it worked, so far.
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If only they had raked their forest, none of this would've been necessary.
 
Just great....a new fire..
Forest hill and 80...
 

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Aww shoot! It's not just one new fire.

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IR map from the Bridge Incident. 312 acres last night.
 

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I doubt that most reporters actually go to the site of the fire, they're writing off of other accounts or cal fire reports without really understanding what they're writing.

Journalism is a joke these days.
 
CDONA said:
All I got was "Bridge fire in Calif." and 10 seconds of vid.

No idea where, the blue sky made me think of So-Cal.
Network News :thumbdown
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Foresthill.
Yuba net has the Best fire maping link.
 

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Its not in Forrest Hill, its just N of Auburn in what is likely Bowman.

Edit - i said north, but thats inaccurate. Its actually east of downtown Auburn, not far from the Forest Hill Rd exit on 80. The Auburn bridge is not far from that exit.
 
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It's right at at the forest hill Rd bridge
Started down the hill in the recreation area down near the river
Stupid humans.
 
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Looks like they stomped the fire out, they didn't want another Caldor fire.

They probably pulled some of their air resources from nearby. That's what they really need to do, use overwhelming force early on rather than weeks of greater effort to put a fire out later.
 
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Climber said:
I doubt that most reporters actually go to the site of the fire, they're writing off of other accounts or cal fire reports without really understanding what they're writing.

Journalism is a joke these days.
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Local news from Rapid City, network news from New York/Washington?

Local, they haven't a clue, network usually has a local on site, but air time spent is minimal, not included.
 
Yesterday.
 

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That’s a really cool picture from the Air Attack platform. It illustrates the difference in the surface winds and the winds aloft. Surprising to me that the fire didn’t spot more with that kind of wind.
I’m reading 400-ish acres and forward progress stopped on the Bridge Incident.
Good stop by the fire resources considering the majority of resources are committed to the Dixie and Caldor fires.
 
It should be legal to shoot these fuckers, when caught.

Up to 10 'suspicious' fires ignite in Bay Area overnight
A series of small fires flared up on Sunday night in the Healdsburg area of Sonoma County, with arson suspected, reports the Santa Rosa Press Democrat.

At around 10 p.m., Press Democrat photographer Kent Porter was on the scene and first reported the blazes around 2-3 miles north of Healdsburg. Firefighters quickly contained the small fires that numbered up to 10, six of which were on Mill Creek Road.
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Shoot to kill.
 
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