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Ray54 
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 Topic: Pray for the firemen out west
Posted: 09 Sep 2020 at 10:36am |
Just heard 15 fireman trapped at the Dolan fire here on the Big Sur coast. They have been air lifted out 3 in the hospital 1 critical. This fire is arson started. They caught the dirt bag in just hours. With dim bulb Gavin boy in charge he is no doubt out of jail with the no bail plan. Been burning since Aug 19, some of the nastiest terrain you will find anywhere. This brush patch sure is not worth a persons life,but it is the Condor sanctuary.
All fire personal across the west are stretchered to the limit. Then we have people without a brain.
Pray for stupid people as well. One fire near LA was started by a "pyrotechnic device" used by family to announce the gender of the baby they have coming. Set it off in tall dry grass.  Just no end to people that cannot see past their nose. Ran around with their water bottles trying to put it out.
From what I see Washington,Oregon,Idaho,and California all at least one big fire today.
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 09 Sep 2020 at 1:12pm |
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you would think after seeing this year after year after year that the PEOPLE would cooperate more.... and the GOVT would have some type of PREVENTATIVE plan ... responding AFTER the fire starts is always playing catch up !
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shameless dude
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Posted: 09 Sep 2020 at 10:11pm |
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prayers from NE
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JohnColo
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Posted: 09 Sep 2020 at 10:29pm |
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Pretty hard to have a preventive plan when you have millions of acres, most of them semi vertical, with few roads for access and mostly owned by the feds.
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Ray54
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Posted: 10 Sep 2020 at 9:48am |
Good news about the fire men in the hospital,2 released,the other up grade.
The fire where these where injured is up over the coast ridge on to Hunter Ligget Military base. Closing in on 100,000 acres.
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Posted: 10 Sep 2020 at 1:45pm |
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Prayers for all involded in fighting them fires.
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DMiller
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Posted: 10 Sep 2020 at 7:57pm |
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Agreed, prayers they are handled by God's own hands.
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Hubert (Ga)engine7
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Posted: 10 Sep 2020 at 8:40pm |
Prayers for all involved in fighting these fires. The lives of the firefighters on the ground are dependent on the incident commanders knowing exactly what the fire is doing and what it is expected to do but even then an unexpected wind shift can spell disaster.
Kudos to the California National Guard Chinook and Blackhawk crews that airlifted over 200 people that were trapped at a campground over the weekend. They were putting their lives on the line to pull that off.
Edited by Hubert (Ga)engine7 - 10 Sep 2020 at 9:02pm
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Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God.
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JohnColo
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Posted: 11 Sep 2020 at 1:37am |
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I spent a week at Hunter-Ligget in July or early August 52 years ago. I remember steep hills and dry grass under the oak trees.
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Tad Wicks
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Posted: 26 Aug 2021 at 10:45am |
 steve(ill) wrote:
you would think after seeing this year after year after year that the PEOPLE would cooperate more.... and the GOVT would have some type of PREVENTATIVE plan ... responding AFTER the fire starts is always playing catch up ! |
Our county and much of California instituted a volunteer fire fighter program, it was very successful, local responders were phenomenal with collisions, fires and rescues, they did it all, much faster than CAL FIRE ever could. These devoted people took time to receive the proper training un-paid to help others and did it well. What they did was anger jealous CAL FIRE slugs to the point of them swearing at the volunteers and making them so miserable they quit, what a travesty, classic case of a government bunch of asxxxxxles ruining a very good thing. So, it can be said that the local people did try and they tried hard to help and mitigate problems, California got in the way of that. So sad
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Ray54
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Posted: 26 Aug 2021 at 5:29pm |
Somebody brings a year old post up to the top, and Califory is about the same place it was a year ago. Not much happening from the center of the state south this year,  so far any way. But the south has always had the worst fires in late fall, when the Santa Anna winds out of the east are the highest.
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