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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Larry Wong on August 29, 2013, 01:34:16 PM
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Video of California Rim fire from the air.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/27/216036318/stunning-video-pilots-view-of-californias-rim-fire
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I really hate to gear of the wild fires in California. We have some large areas of forest which have had fires before and it is scary. There is a large preserve about 15 miles away and when there have been wild fires there, we get a fairly heavy layer of smoke drifting in. Occasionally they have come close enough to warrant evacuation.
BIG Bear
RNMM/AMM
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Where are the water bombers? It may be spectacular to some people, but to me unless it was started by mother nature it is a waste of forest land. Also the wild creatures that live there are losing their home..
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Where are the water bombers? It may be spectacular to some people, but to me unless it was started by mother nature it is a waste of forest land. Also the wild creatures that live there are losing their home..
Many of those trees require a fire to reproduce. Part of the reason the fire is so hot and so extensive is that previous fire-fighting efforts have left an abnormal amount of undergrowth and other flammable debris. There is a legitimate debate over whether or not we should actually start fires to manage the forest. It's complicated by the fact that there are a lot of homes in the area, that's primarily why they fight the fires in the first place.
Brett
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Every few years, people in the valleys NW of L.A. get burned out. They just collect insurance and rebuild on the same site.
F.C.
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I live in a forest. Trees 70+ft tall 12ft from the house. One tree is 3" from my deck. I removed all small trees and large bushes back from the house 10 years ago. I had a large branch fall on my work building this spring and I was in it at the time. I thought it was coming through the roof. It was up there till last week. Here is my back yard this summer and if a fire came through the tree tops my house would be gone in minutes. I noticed part of the large tree branch is still on the roof in the picture.
Ed
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Even here in the prairie states we have what is controlled burning in the early part of the year. It not only gets rid of dead weeds/grasses it helps the new grass with the ash that is left.