Though you mite like to see some of the photos.
I think there is 25 fires burning here in the state.
Two major ones just north of me in the area I grew up.
Lolo peak fire 30,700 acers and one across the valley also over 30K
yesterday there were 750 home evacuated with a possible of 1500 more.
These fires are 150 miles north and west of me but the smoke here has viability down to a half mile some times.
I will post more pics as they are sent to me.
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Not pretty, and unfortunately, Oregon is in much the same boat. About 30 fires burning out of control in the cascades. That's what dry thunderstorms do for us.
What a waste of good wood...
Really looks scary! :o
Stay safe!
fire map
https://www.geomac.gov/viewer/viewer.shtml
BC is burning as well. We've had hundreds of small wildfires and a few big ones. About 45,000 people under evacuation order at one point. Earlier this month 2017 became the worst year for BC wildfires ever recorded (the previous worst year was 1958).
Today 19 wildfires combined to make the single largest fire in BC's history: 467,000 hectares or 1.17 million acres. That's over 1800 square miles in a single fire.
Fortunately there are relatively few communities at risk right now.
Dry thunderstorm goin on right now, so more fires more smoke. Not fun!
The forecast for Tuesday dry lightning 50% chance.
I am building a 300 gal slip tank for my pickup it should be done end of week.
There's not enough fire equipment to put out a camp fire around here.
Local fire department is 30 min away. so kinda on my own .
We've been very lucky in south eastern Montana. The ranch I work for has had 4 in the past 2 weeks, but we got extremely lucky on 2 and got on them and were able to keep them to just a few acres apiece. Another was just over 150 acres when we got it contained and the last got us for right at 360 acres and was just in a horrible spot, plus the winds were really giving us a lot of grief.
I can't say enough about all of the response teams that came together on the big fire. We had 2 rigs from one county, 3-4 rigs from our county, DNRC was there with several rigs, two helocopters and one tanker at least, PLUS hot shot crews from New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and a new bunch on there first season from Alaska....All of them great folks to talk with and every last one of them busting butt to get things done. The ranch that I work for is in 3 counties so it gets confusing as to who is running the show, but all of these folks were able to listen to one guy and everything went great.
I really want to thank any of you who do this for a living. I just can't say enough about anyone willing to walk away from their families and homes to put yourselves in the predicaments that you do with these fires. I did this stuff when I was younger and know what you all are putting yourselves through, thank you very much.
On a good note the big fire here left me with probably 50 unburned trees that got pushed over dozing a perimeter line and another couple hundred that were fire killed but still in great shape. Lets just see if I can't make some time and get back to sawing some lumber.
Glad to hear that the crews are working well together and getting a handle on things. I am always amazed to see crews come together from so many parts of the country or even the world. They always work together as a team, you'd think that they trained together. There is nothing I know of that can be compared to the teamwork of different fire crews working together.
Saw this on Yahoo. Interesting way to get a forest fire started.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/snake-eating-hawk-started-huge-211739150.html
Allan, I was wondering how you've been faring out there, my uncle said your country is producing plenty of smoke.
Quote from: barbender on August 26, 2017, 09:19:46 PM
Allan, I was wondering how you've been faring out there, my uncle said your country is producing plenty of smoke.
All of the real bad fires and larger ones are to west of us and producing bunches of smoke. I drive around my end of the ranch every morning checking waters and looking for fires and I really have to take my time to see, it's pretty limited visibility for sure.
We have bunches of out of state fire crews stationed at the motel here that are on new fires every day it sounds like, plus DNRC is staying pretty close. It's definitely a day to day deal this time of year.
I wish I could send you some of our rain!
Unfortunate, but kudos for some really great photos!
I drove through BC 3 weeks ago and the smoke was burning my eyes inside my car. Good photos