The Fire Thread

Cyclotourist said:
Yeah the trails will come back fairly soon. I'm worried about erosion here if we get some winter storms as this was a pretty big drainage for the south side of Yucaipa ridge as well as potato canyon in oak Glen. And as Ross said, there are a lot of oaks as well as a few conifers that will never come back.
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Better than 50% chance of La Niña this winter. Which doesn't really mean anything, other than a better than average chance of a drier winter. Unless it's not.

https://www.noaa.gov/news/la-nina-develops-during-peak-hurricane-season
 
evdog said:
Hadn't noticed this earlier on InciWeb: Estimated containment date for Bobcat Fire - Oct 30, 2020.

I know estimating a date is a shot in the dark but I'd feel better if they estimated low and then took a bit longer. A lot can burn in 45 days
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Yikes. I've been scratching my head at the lack of containment, given that the growth of the fire doesn't seem to be that explosive, aside from the first couple of days. I can only assume it's due in large part to lack of resources to fight the fire given how thin they're all spread with fires state wide.
 
Think of the long term damage to your lungs while riding in this Sh!t for another 2 months? People will do it for there mental heath so your damed if you do, and you are damned if you don’t! God forbid, but there will be more fires just because! I knew this fire would knock out my riding for some long time to come, let alone even going outside. Only other option is to go to another state, evdog knows how to do that! I’m going to Utah in two weeks, but that’s in two weeks after not riding for a month. Cool thing is I’ll get to talk about politics with a like minded friend and ride my bike. Should be feeling better after that, I just got to hang in there till then :) .
 
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buggravy said:
Yikes. I've been scratching my head at the lack of containment, given that the growth of the fire doesn't seem to be that explosive, aside from the first couple of days. I can only assume it's due in large part to lack of resources to fight the fire given how thin they're all spread with fires state wide.
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Seems like lack of resources is a factor in all the fires right now. Below is what InciWeb currently lists for major fires closest to us. Some of the personnel totals seem really small given the size of the fires and rate of spread. Valley and Lake fires close to containment so they have probably seen personnel reassigned. The bigger lightning complex fires aren't listing personnel counts. I looked further up at OR and WA too. Their counts seem similar. As do their containment numbers. Lots of big fires at 10% or less.

Bobcat - 888 Isn't that a lucky number @rossage ?
El Dorado - 1,319
Valley - 602
Lake - 263
Dolan - 767
SQF Complex - 764
Creek - 2503
 
evdog said:
Hadn't noticed this earlier on InciWeb: Estimated containment date for Bobcat Fire - Oct 30, 2020.

I know estimating a date is a shot in the dark but I'd feel better if they estimated low and then took a bit longer. A lot can burn in 45 days
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Last time I saw it was the 13th
Not fond of the new number...:cry:
 
evdog said:
Hadn't noticed this earlier on InciWeb: Estimated containment date for Bobcat Fire - Oct 30, 2020.

I know estimating a date is a shot in the dark but I'd feel better if they estimated low and then took a bit longer. A lot can burn in 45 days
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They've said the Oregon fires will burn until it rains. Fires that would normally have 1000+ firefighters have 200 due to being spread so thin.
 
Say it isn't so !! :(

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My friend just lost his " family "cabin above Springville this past weekend. No fire insurance. He said fire insurance was about 5,000 per year so he never paid it. Another friend of mine also had a cabin in the same area but sold last year- due to high fire insurance costs. He said that the fire was stopped at the 190 highway near Camp Nelson ( areas ) from what he could tell me.
 
Looks like the Bass Lake area (Shuteye Peak, Little Shuteye, Whisky Falls, etc) has been hammered. My brother has a place right on the lake, next to the Pines. He was kinda hoping, in a whimsical way, that it would burn. But that everything around it wouldn't.

Shaver/Huntington, my old summer stomping grounds....it'll be a while to recover.
 
Faust29 said:
That area hadn't even opened yet from the Holy Fire closure... Did it?
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I wonder if the ranger was asked about, -and he answered- specifically, about just the holy Jim fire area, since it was originally supposed to reopen early September, and has been extended, and that pic was taken at the closure gate on trabuco creek road which has maybe looked like that since the fire?
 
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