This is what REALLY gets under a Wildland Firefighter's skin

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

They ALWAYS let it get to big before they call me. Geeeeeeeee!!!!!!  >:(


  10-4.....if you think we need them. I do.....my brush truck is out of water. :D :D :D

[Holmes]

  I thought WDH said that was a controlled fire. :laugh:

[sawguy21]

  I would want to be well in front of that with a dozer and have a pickumup nearby.

[justallan1]

I have all the respect in the world for the guys on equipment and on the ground, BUT sometimes I think the big decisions must be getting made by someone in a suit, sitting in an office, in another state!
In this picture there were technically 5 fires going at once and these guys weren't allowed to help on another fire within a 1/2 mile behind where I was standing to take this picture. The ranch I work for lost 34,000 acres because these folks weren't allowed to do their jobs. That was a year and a half ago, and I'm still about half mad about it.

Allan


  

[Alcranb]

That sort of adds merit that old acronym CHAOS
Chief  Has  Arrived  On  Scene   :

[redprospector]

I have all the respect in the world for the guys on equipment and on the ground, BUT sometimes I think the big decisions must be getting made by someone in a suit, sitting in an office, in another state!
In this picture there were technically 5 fires going at once and these guys weren't allowed to help on another fire within a 1/2 mile behind where I was standing to take this picture. The ranch I work for lost 34,000 acres because these folks weren't allowed to do their jobs. That was a year and a half ago, and I'm still about half mad about it.

Allan


 

Yep, there were over 250 homes lost in Ruidoso, NM a couple of years ago because someone in an office decided to let the fire take it's natural course. I'm still full mad about that.

[Don_Papenburg]

One of the firefighters that I know said that in school they taught them that there is afire triangle . The points of the triangle represent  heat  oxygen and fuel , If you can remove any one of them you will put the fire out .  He said at the fire dept. he learned that in real life it is a fire square .  Heat, oxygen , fuel and chief .  And if you remove any one of them you can put the fire out.

[justallan1]

 :D Good call, Don.