Will the fire reach our Remote Alaskan Cabin!!? ||ALASKA WILDFIRES 2023||

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9 ай бұрын

In this video we have to turn around and head right back up to the cabin after the wind changed directions and came towards our cabin. I spent all night setting up sprinklers and pumps on cabins with fire all around them. I ended up staying up there and running the firefighters up and down the river for 12 days.

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@aksalaman4689 9 ай бұрын

Everybody pitching in to help their neighbor, what a great thing that is!! Hats off to the firefighters..

@EndTimesSurvivalBushcraft 4 ай бұрын

I love seeing local communities coming together to fight a fire in the forest. Helping each other out. That is why I want to live up there.

@OutdoorsandCountryLiving 9 ай бұрын

That is crazy…. Hope everyone stays safe and well. Great job helping others.

@nancytipton2640 9 ай бұрын

Hardworking genuine Alaskans like you are who make me proud to have lived there for 25 years. Thank you for sharing a very scary fire situation and showing the commitment of so many. So glad for no injuries and no cabins burning to the ground.😊

@cutawhiskieramblings6231 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing this. Maybe what you have shown will help folks understand how powerful these fires are. It's great you work for a company that allows you to contribute to your community this way.

@diyalaskanlifestyle 9 ай бұрын

When the fire come through the first day there was a couple guys working on a fire line by their cabin. They barely made it out. It is not something to screw with

@elizabeththomas8746 9 ай бұрын

God bless you for helping the firefighters! You did an awesome job. Great save on your own cabin. Let's pray for the heroes who fight the fires and to keep them safe.

@aspendell209 9 ай бұрын

Amazing footage and experience. Now your channel may get the subscriptions you deserve :)

@ericschwepker2906 9 ай бұрын

Our prayers are with you and all the men and women who are in the fire area. Stay safe and God Bless.

@petercarbutt3706 9 ай бұрын

Very good vlog Squire U are a good family

@christineabedini3765 9 ай бұрын

You did a great thing☮️👏❤️

@peppernc429 9 ай бұрын

Wow, wow, wow! I am sure the crews were very grateful for you and your family. God bless!

@michaelmartineau1373 9 ай бұрын

Hats off to you for helping others. ALASKA NWT and BC got hit really hard this year. Glad your cabin was spared

@lisaallran3029 9 ай бұрын

Stay safe! Thank you for being amazing at assisting the firemen!! Great job! That fire scares me for the brave firemen!

@larryboschen1287 3 ай бұрын

What an amazing effort by all.

@Our_life_outdoors_Alaska 9 ай бұрын

Wishing you and all those firefighters up there safety and hope they can beat back that fire! With over 200 active fires there is a lot of work to be done! Good luck and best wishes! Be safe!

@busybusy3566 9 ай бұрын

Happy to hear you and your property is safe. I am s fireman for 32 years in Florida.

@bernadetteosantowski9778 9 ай бұрын

Pray everything is a Blessing 😢

@scott6252 9 ай бұрын

Good thing you were there with your boat's, i hope the forest service will compensate you some on your gas, good work.

@diyalaskanlifestyle 9 ай бұрын

They take good care of you I’ll prob put my boats on the list for next year

@scott6252 9 ай бұрын

@@diyalaskanlifestyle That's great

@FlyerPatty29 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for your service to the fireman and for the people around you and your friends cabins. Praise the Lord everything is OK.

@martintaylor5943 9 ай бұрын

Thank you and the firefighters, stay safe

@laruedouglas7972 9 ай бұрын

That is so sad seeing all the fires 😢. Prayers for everyone and you are so amazing for helping everyone 🙏.

@RMarie62 9 ай бұрын

Please stay as safe as you all possible can 😢 thank you for helping others God bless you all

@woodsfamily1986 9 ай бұрын

great vid, stay safe!

@nathanflogel7946 9 ай бұрын

Good job, awesome to see you put in so much effort for the good a good cause

@joelabc 9 ай бұрын

You guys are awesome 👍😎 good job 👏

@alaskanawesomeness9017 9 ай бұрын

I worked with the midnight sun crew this year as well. Glad nothing happened to the cabins. We were on the haystack fire.

@AlaskaMyHeart 9 ай бұрын

Awesome job. Very nice to see team work and all the love for one another. So sad to see all the fires.

@emmacurwen8416 9 ай бұрын

Terrifying! Definitely something not to be messed with. A valiant effort from all involved 👏

@sheepdogtruckcamper520 9 ай бұрын

Amazing video . Awesome country

@suedavis681 9 ай бұрын

Just watching this makes my stomach churn and heart race. Pitching in to help those in need is a wonderful thing to do. No job is too small and with many hands it helps greatly on the bigger jobs. My thanks to you and others who are doing all they can to help neighbors and the men and women who are on the fireline. Not only do they work hard but the toxic fumes and heat beat them up while they are physically doing everything possible to keep the fires contained. My heart goes out to all of those fighting, assisting those fighting and those who have lost their property to the fires. I pray God sends rain and relief.

@denniscrane9753 9 ай бұрын

So much American spirit packed into one video! Stay strong everyone involved! 💪

@coolhand66 9 ай бұрын

Great video. May I suggest there's a product called barricade what barricade does if you hook up the water and you spray it all over your house and out buildings. And then you let it dry and it turns into kind of an eggshell that heat resistant and it does work it's the best stuff you can use if you have buildings in the outback where there's fires. The other thing is the amount of trees you have around your buildings you probably should cut back things really good they have a better fire break and there's some other things too I think that's enough what I've said already barricade it's really something

@diyalaskanlifestyle 9 ай бұрын

Thanks I’ll look into it. we’ve been cutting trees for years trying to thin it out. I don’t want to clear cut I’m just going to keep thinning the trees and try and deal with all brush for now

@coolhand66 9 ай бұрын

No no barricade is a product it's a fire retardant and more it's kind of like coding your house with an egg and then when it gets hot access to fire retardant it dries against the house and gets really tough It's actually made out of baby diapers there that are ground up believer or not it'll save the property it's not that expensive. There was a fire in Backwoods Florida and it was a bad wood fire and it took down about a hundred buildings this one couple had a brand new house we sprayed the house with barricade and left their house in this big block was the only house that didn't burn@@diyalaskanlifestyle

@tanyajenkins919 9 ай бұрын

You are getting some great footage of the slury planes and water choppers. 🙏🙏

@mountainlifewithdavidkelsie 9 ай бұрын

Thanks to all the hero’s that wear yellows and greens every year and bust their asses! Scott you give everything 110 percent my friend and I really admire that about you! Your are a true hero and a very BIG help!!! Thank you for being such an amazing person and sharing your adventures! Maybe one day when we make it to Alaska I can look you up and shake your hand! Stay safe my friend we wish you and yours good health and happiness from the Mtn Life family!!! Can’t wait for the next adventure! Take care buddy! ✊🏽MUCH RESPECT!

@rfalberti 9 ай бұрын

I am praying for you and your family brother god bless you guy's.

@cheeseburger9232 9 ай бұрын

Good job helping them out,

@btodman6895 9 ай бұрын

Great job stay safe

@MyAlaska12 9 ай бұрын

So glad you were able to help and that your cabin was safe.

@lynnalohaaloha9439 9 ай бұрын

So glad your cabin is safe. You're so awesome helping your neighbors and the firefighters. Some of those pics were crazy.

@adambrewer4400 9 ай бұрын

I would not have been able to leave if that was my cabin either, I'm glad you got to stay and help also, your work must be very understanding about it.

@tomad4051 9 ай бұрын

AWESOME SERVICE, Hats Off to YouALL !!!

@denniskemnitz3771 9 ай бұрын

You guys did a great job.

@rjaquaponics9266 9 ай бұрын

great work, This video should be #1 on YT

@tanyajenkins919 9 ай бұрын

Fire being that close sends different type chill up your spine.🙏🙏 Prayers for all.

@COOPERSCICHILDS 9 ай бұрын

Stay safe 🙏🏾

@susanhenderson2322 9 ай бұрын

Good work, be safe, remember property is replaceable, lives aren't. From interior BC, Canada

@grousehunter67 9 ай бұрын

Pretty serial experience ! glad everyone was safe and you only lost one cabin

@caroljacobs5080 9 ай бұрын

I thought they would cut down more trees to make a fire break. Well done to you all. Stay save. X

@akbychoice 9 ай бұрын

Glad to see the fires died down. Be some good moose habitat next year.

@diyalaskanlifestyle 9 ай бұрын

Ya it’s pretty much burned all around me, I might have to start moose hunting up there I did see 3 little bulls in the 12 days I was there

@scottwhitehurst1633 9 ай бұрын

After living in the Sierra for years and dealing with wildland fires, clearing a defensible space around your cabin is crucial.

@davidgriffin14 9 ай бұрын

🙏 🙏 🙏

@swaggersauce 9 ай бұрын

Great video. I wondered why it had been a while since the last one…

@mortenmyhrmoen7592 9 ай бұрын

🇳🇴🙏🏻🙏🏻

@russwise1 9 ай бұрын

😎👍👍🙏🙏

@diane8885 9 ай бұрын

Please stay safe.

@allenyeong4771 9 ай бұрын

There are many rivers in Alaska and yet the Authority have no idea how to utilize these assets to combat fire?

@chas2can124 9 ай бұрын

I wish we could get similar footage of the 50th State fires.

@kenactofkindness4017 9 ай бұрын

min 150 foot clearing around all structures with ... u know fire retardent on wood siding so much to prevent total burn out, sad to see all that going on, live in the woods ugh hang in there... shoulda could woulda lol hi 5

@kenactofkindness4017 9 ай бұрын

pray first amen

@diyalaskanlifestyle 9 ай бұрын

Ya I’ve been working on clearing around the cabin it is a ton of work and I don’t want to drop them all. I will definitely do some more thinning this winter though

@madmartigan4948 9 ай бұрын

If only we could fight fire like we fight War but I guess that's too expensive

@sandollarj504 9 ай бұрын

Where in Alaska are the fires?

@diyalaskanlifestyle 9 ай бұрын

There is several in the interior north of the Ak Range. This footage is from 3 weeks ago since then it has cooled off and rained some. Fires are still active just not as bad as they were

@apostlepaulvining5688 9 ай бұрын

Hey man, sorry I don’t know your name. What jet boat do you have?? 13 to 3 inch, 13 inch intake to 3 inch output. Ask the manufacturer to install a fire hose female latch, to run the water hose inland to fight fire and protect homes and property…… I’m a inventor/tinkerer just an idea for y’all i grew up in Alaska from 1959 at 5 yrs…… hope this helps.

@diyalaskanlifestyle 9 ай бұрын

Ya I’ve that of doing this there is a guy in town that had a fitting built to do this. It is a Berkeley pump on the inboard and the outboard is a 125 merc

@evelyno7313 9 ай бұрын

What was the cause of these fires. Lightening Strikes?

@akbychoice 9 ай бұрын

Mostly

@diyalaskanlifestyle 9 ай бұрын

Yes we had 30,000 lightning strikes the day the first fire started

@shaunlehman9158 9 ай бұрын

Did all the rain the past 2 days help?

@diyalaskanlifestyle 9 ай бұрын

I’m sure it did, this video was from 3 weeks ago I just know had time to put the video together. I have talked to some friends up there and there is still small fires but sounds pretty much under control

@kristibrz2798 9 ай бұрын

How did those fires start?

@diyalaskanlifestyle 9 ай бұрын

Lightning we had 30,000 lighting strikes the day it started. If you watch the video before this I was actually up there when it started

@TrapperScottyAlaskan 8 ай бұрын

Are you above or below Devils Elbow ? Trapper scotty,Alaskan

@diyalaskanlifestyle 8 ай бұрын

I’m not sure where that’s at?

@TrapperScottyAlaskan 8 ай бұрын

@@diyalaskanlifestyle my bad not good pastor river. Is that tanana water

@diyalaskanlifestyle 8 ай бұрын

@@TrapperScottyAlaskan teklanika river

@billtorrence8102 9 ай бұрын

what starts the little fires

@diyalaskanlifestyle 9 ай бұрын

Lightning started the first fire my last video we were up there working on the cabin when the fire started. We had 30,000 lightning strikes that day. The other fire that started a few days later I’m assuming lightning but there wasn’t any lightning that I know of🤷‍♂️

@billtorrence8102 9 ай бұрын

thank ou sir@@diyalaskanlifestyle

@ghwk-phd2784 9 ай бұрын

Very likely - Let it burn policy is in effect

@diyalaskanlifestyle 9 ай бұрын

Ya I’m good with that and that’s what was going on I think. They were just a day late getting cabins prepped. It is good to let the fires burn I get that.

@ghwk-phd2784 9 ай бұрын

Yup that's fine - But then they must be honest and let the world know that's the agenda - So they can stay and protect their properties if the choose - No mandatory evacuations @@diyalaskanlifestyle

@deltafoxtrot6092 9 ай бұрын

Hopefully the drilling and mining companies haven't found Lithium in your neighborhood, They burning everything instead of logging it. Way faster

@joseywilds3133 9 ай бұрын

Who’s setting these fires!!!!!!!!!!??????

@diyalaskanlifestyle 9 ай бұрын

I was there when the fire started we had 30,000 lightning strikes that night

@robinpriego4453 9 ай бұрын

🤍🤍🤍🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😇😇😇

@lutomson3496 9 ай бұрын

you dont have defensible space, having lost a home to wildfire, I learned my lesson, that fire will jump top to top of trees i would water the roof down and sides of your cabin, that may work but the fire will break the windows and all will be gone the ground water is a little protection not much good luck

@travisgrow4713 9 ай бұрын

Y isn’t our government doing anything for you and what Hawaii just went thru smh

@diyalaskanlifestyle 9 ай бұрын

The forestry showed up and were gearing up to come in the morning. Logistically it is hard here the only access is by boat or helicopter, and the wind changed unexpectically. Also they thought our fire season was over so most of our fire fighters were on fires in the lower 48. Maui on the other hand seems fishy to me

@ingeleind4651 9 ай бұрын

Why is it the first thought that the government isn’t doing anything to help?

@travisgrow4713 9 ай бұрын

@@ingeleind4651 there awful full of piss and vinegar to help other countries but not our own

@chslts 9 ай бұрын

Hopefully the good old federal government compensated you for your fuel....

@diyalaskanlifestyle 9 ай бұрын

They took good care of us, all fuel was paid and they have a pretty decent daily rate they pay for the boat and operator

@wesleysteelhead 9 ай бұрын

Why weren't you cutting some line around your cabin.. cutting a break ?.. 😂 bro... You should go fight wildfire for awhile if you're gonna critique the pros..

@diyalaskanlifestyle 9 ай бұрын

I never critiqued their work not sure how you got that out of this video. I was a little frustrated they weren’t there the night the fire jumped the river. I became friends with the fire fighters while they were there and think they did a great job it wasn’t their fault the weren’t put on the fire before it got to our cabins.