ARTESH
Chief Master Sergeant
Stay safe!
FOREST FIRES
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Yeah the smoke here in Calgary yesterday was the worst I've ever seen. And we're 500 kms south of the fires. (Yeah I know, taking pictures whie driving - but I set it up at a stop light and just had to hit the button)
MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
I cant even guess which trail you are on
Crimea_River
Marshal
It's the brand new ring road right by Spruce Meadows looking east. Just opened a couple of years ago on the Hwy 22X right of way.
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fubar57
General
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Erich
the old Sage
we have one called the oak flat fire over 20K now 0 % containment threatening a couple small communities. smoke in our valley - puke
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
For the first time in several years, we have not had a major fire before August (knock on wood).
The monsoon moisture has moved in and thunderstorms are in the forecast - I truly hope we'll be spared the dry lightning.
The monsoon moisture has moved in and thunderstorms are in the forecast - I truly hope we'll be spared the dry lightning.
Erich
the old Sage
send the monsoonal north pard ~ getting tired of smoke and 100 plus
That little campfire symbol between 2 red dots in the lower right corner of the province is our local fire -- discussed a bit in the weather thread. 4100 hectares (11000 acres), 7 houses gone, 250 persons working the lines. It's been going for a week and a half, but seems to be settling some -- the fire service says the containment lines on the north and west sides are holding so far. It's burning away from the towns, but they are afraid of it jumping the Kootenay River and getting into the ranch and resort country north and east. There has already been one blaze on the east bank and there are crews and helicopters all over the place up there. Right now everything depends on the wind, which is picking up as I type this.
Uneasy times...
Greg Boeser
2nd Lieutenant
If you had lumbered it out years ago, we wouldn't be having this problem, or a housing shortage. Such poor planning.
But, seriously, stay safe.
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
The environmentalists wreaked havoc with California's forests in the late 70's, early 80's winning injunctions against the USFS, CDF and private landowners, forbidding any form of logging, deadfall removal and maintaining existing logging roads.
Fast forward ten years and California started to experience escalating wildfires.
Within a generation, the forests were so choked with ladder fuels, catastrophic fires were inevitable.
So we're literally reaping the whirlwind of a poorly informed, passionate but misguided crusade.
Greg Boeser
2nd Lieutenant
The north-central US suffered some catastrophic fires during the height of the logging boom, late 1800s to early 1900s. I read that the Hinckley fire, 1894 burned over 200,000 acres and killed over 400 people. In places the fire burned so hot, it consumed all organic matter up to 18 inches below the ground surface.
MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
Yeah but at that stage the ecoterrorists were saying do not produce/use paper bags - produce/use plastic bags. Now they do not know what to say because half want trees and the other half want paper products
That's quite a growth in fires. It looks like there's more of BC on fire than not on fire!
Erich
the old Sage
smoke is on the ground now, Oak Flat fire over 22K 3 % containment ........not at all good. man it stinks.
Thumpalumpacus
Major
Fires are nature's form of forest management. Humans need to understand that.
MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
From https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/31/weather/bc-wildfires-canada-washington-climate/index.html
An out-of-control blaze burning in northern Washington state exploded in size, crossed the Canadian border and set off a cascade of evacuations over the weekend.
The so-called Eagle Bluff Fire has burned thousands of acres on both sides of the border and forced hundreds to evacuate their homes since it ignited Saturday in Washington's Okanogan County.
As Okanogan county an extension of the Canadian Okanagan area this suggests the fires in that area are now spreading in a new direction which is very concerning. I spent many happy days at Lake Okanagan in the late 60s, an area that is second only to Lake Louise for beauty and relaxation.
An out-of-control blaze burning in northern Washington state exploded in size, crossed the Canadian border and set off a cascade of evacuations over the weekend.
The so-called Eagle Bluff Fire has burned thousands of acres on both sides of the border and forced hundreds to evacuate their homes since it ignited Saturday in Washington's Okanogan County.
As Okanogan county an extension of the Canadian Okanagan area this suggests the fires in that area are now spreading in a new direction which is very concerning. I spent many happy days at Lake Okanagan in the late 60s, an area that is second only to Lake Louise for beauty and relaxation.
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fubar57
General
On the e news this morning, many in Osoyoos have returned home and the wind has changed helping the firefighters on the Eagle Bluff but it is still out of control
N4521U
Colonel
If this Warm weather keeps up in Oz, we will be taking over this thread!
Soon.
Soon.
You can have some of our cold and wet. It's miserable here at the moment.
