Fire Season is Here

[Leni]

A big rapidly growing fire (750 acres already) is in the mountains in Fraizer Park. My son lives in a home on the side of the mountain opposite the fire. He just called me and told me that he is seeing flames up to 50 feet. The wind is blowing the fire away from him and the other homes in the valley. This is going to be a nasty one. The area is pine forest and hasn't burned in years. He has a highway and a creek between his home and the fire. He also has a fire hydrant at the foot of his driveway. I think that he'll be okay but it is still nerve racking.

 

[Leni]

Now we have a grass fire in Glendale. It's going to be a rough season.

 

[OhioTC18]

WOW, hope both of you are safe from these fires.

 

[Leni]

The Frazier fire is up to 2,500 acres. It's about 85 miles away from me. Glendale is 20 miles away. You'll probably see something about the Frazier fire on the news tonight.

 

[muleman]

Good luck out there. We finally got some rain around here. Don't know if they lifted the burn ban yet.

 

[RNE228]

Our district in Nor-Cal is doing refresher training exercises over this week with all crews paid and volunteer. I was out Teusday; we were training in steep brushy terrain simulated fire with numerous spill over and spot fires. Progressive hose lays, line construction, simulated burn over with shelter deployments.

We have already had strike teams sent south that included a couple engines from our district. The station that I mostly volunteer out of has a Type-3 wildland engine that is one of the primary to go on strike teams.

It has potential to be a doozy of a fire season; east of Sacramento already looks like conditions seen in August, not May.

Strange ac4ross the country, even saw report of wildfire early season in Wisconsin