Wildfire

[TAC71]

Crazy last day and a half. Wildfire started at 4pm monday 4 miles north of my house. About midnight it had grown to 700 hectares, winds shifted and it started headed south towards Osoyoos. Its across the lake from me but still worrisome. Tuesday am, we can't see anything to the east through the smoke and plenty of people evacuated from the east side. West side from my house looks like a regular day, east looks like a war zone. Fire gets within 300 yards of structures before winds drop and the choppers and planes slow it down. It has now grown to about 4000 hectares and is out of control. Just got home from helping a friend move cars from his house since he has been given an evacuation order. Looking off my deck right now you can watch the trees explode into flames, we have had nearly no rain for months.
First pic monday about 6pm
second pic monday about midnight
third pic tuesday about 9pm

 

[heybear]

my backyard

 

[85eurocarrera]

Cool pictures. Hope it stays clear of your home.

 

[CoronaRaptor]

It’s a nasty year for fires, they finally declared a state of emergency for the whole province last night, hope that helps with resources. I heard the mayor of Osoyoos on the news last night telling the visitors/campers that they should go home, so that will free up hotel rooms for residences that get evacuated. Hope the wind calms down for you so they can get a hand on that fire.

 

[Donovan]

Crazy question.

Is there a map of these wildfires and any correlations as to how/why/when they start? There are too many and you would think for people who hike/nature wonder, they would NOT want to burn the forest down.

In areas of old wildfires, has there been business establishments created there shortly after and who owns those businesses now? Just trying to connect some dots on these "random wildfires." Don't mind me though...

*tin foil hat*

 

[1BAD454SSv2]

Be safe out there .June 18th was 122 my location. My buddy lives in central Washington and it was 117 3 weeks ago .

Most fire start from Dry storms with lightning they are the worst.

So far this summer Arizona getting good rain. Last year we got practically no rain very hot dry year last year .

 

[JohnyPython]

Wow that’s pretty scary. Stay safe everyone.

 

[Donovan]

Be safe out there .June 18th was 122 my location. My buddy lives in central Washington and it was 117 3 weeks ago .

Most fire start from Dry storms with lightning they are the worst.

So far this summer Arizona getting good rain. Last year we got practically no rain very hot dry year last year .

Jesus rice.. Mother earth is mad at someone lol. Or Father sun?

 

[CoronaRaptor]

There’s a fire that started yesterday in Sicamous,bc , it was caused by a car accident on the side of the road, it went out of control immediately because the grass and trees are dry from no rain. There are other fires which are started by lightning and careless campers even though there is a fire ban on here.

 

[smurfslayer]

There’s a fire that started yesterday in Sicamous,bc , it was caused by a car accident on the side of the road, it went out of control immediately because the grass and trees are dry from no rain. There are other fires which are started by lightning and careless campers even though there is a fire ban on here.

Dry grass... No joke. I’ve been dealing with a bunch of dead trees over the last year, some I whacked, some I hired tree cutters to whack. One of them broke and fell over in my back yard, I had the cutter stack it into a pile by an existing tree stump about 3 months back. I had 2 burn piles, one of which I seeded with some dry grass from the back, back, BACK part of the property. It went up like flash paper, and burned hot for about 10-15 seconds, and plenty hot enough to start the inside of the burn pile.

2nd pile was about ... 8 feet high, mostly tree limbs, but some 15” wide sections of tree trunk. I burned it about 7 or 8 hours, got do about half a dozen smoldering, hot logs, and doused it with the hose for 20 minutes. it was still smoldering the next day, then the daily winds from the east rolled in and behold - the remaining logs caught fire again. I checked it out and decided to centralize everything and let it burn. Rains rolled in, the fire was still burning, totally unaffected by the rain. It rained again overnight, and the fire was still going in the morning, very small, but I centralized everything again and it fired right on up. This morning, it’s nothing but ash.

That 2nd burn pile was just one tree, I can’t imagine how hard it is to put out a legit forest fire.