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What should be on my wildfire preparedness checklist? The best way to protect your home from a wildfire is to remove or reduce the potential fuel within a 30-feet safety zone around your home. (If you live in a high-risk area, increase the safety zone to 100 feet): Remove vines from house walls. Move shrubs and other landscaping away from your house walls. Remove highly flammable and low-branched trees, such as evergreens, eucalyptus, and juniper. For remaining trees, remove limbs within 15 feet of the ground. Clear tree debris, such as fallen limbs, leaves, and pine needles and cones. Move stacked wood outside the safety zone. Pay special attention to clearing debris beneath decks and other overhangs. Consider removing wooden exterior structures, such as decks and patios, or replacing them with more fire resistant materials. Install non-combustible roofing and siding materials, such as metal, slate, or concrete. Clear debris from gutters. Install electrical lines underground, You may also want to collect some basic firefighting tools, including hoses, buckets, shovels, axes, rakes, and saws. However, do not attempt to fight large, fast-moving wildfires on your own.

It’s amazing shots but I’d call it stupid to be that close to the fire, not sure how he was able to get that close either

@@myaatheist2744 If the increasing scale of wildfires I would suggest increasing the no brush zone to 150-200 feet of any building you want to protect. If brush is too close firefighters won’t even attempt to protect your house.

There’s a thing called zoom on a camera

A century of fuel build up. It won’t bio -degrade fast enough. This is Nature’s way of removing the fuel.

Makes you wonder where all that tax payer money goes 🤔😑

The U.S. Forest Service's Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit has a program of thinning, piling slash and burning. Not all the lands in the basin are National Forest lands. As you drive around the lake realize there is a lot of private land on the roadsides. Just because some land is undeveloped, does not mean it is National Forest land. I think the amount of National Forest land in the basin is about 75%. From the Spooner Summit Junction to Incline Village on the northeast portion of the basin is Nevada state land, all state parks. Their funding for forest/fire management is not adequate. The USFS has been buying up urban lots and they are doing a high amount of thinning/burning on those lots. Isolated parcels of public land in and around Las Vegas are sold for development and the money is used to fund land purchases in the Lake Tahoe Basin. The primary purpose of these purchases is to protect water quality and keep the visibility of the water in the lake at its present state or improve it. Private land uses are the greatest threat to the visibility in the lake. However, proven forest/land management practices, such as fuel reduction and prescribed burns. The USFS is doing as much thinning and burning as they get funded for. Should the pace and money to fund an increased level of thinning/burning? Yes, of course. Half of the money spent on firefighting and fire management in the U.S., including state and local funding, is spent in California. I think the pace should accelerate to 3-4 times the present pace, but that level is up to the presidential administration and the Congress, so all the wildland managers do with what they get. I could go on an on. I'm retired from a U.S. Forest Service career and have had an strong interest in fire ecology since high school. I was assigned to over 100 wildland fires during my career in recreation management and law enforcement. I was a member of a ranger district team and know what it takes to restore forests to their natural fire regime condition. It's time consuming and expensive, but far less expensive than a major fire is. There are a ton of dedicated, hard working people working on the problem, but the task is huge.

@@Mermaid4Ever I couldn't agree more. While travelling around the west I'm appalled by the condition of public and private land. I'm from Colorado (living here for $$) And I agree about the dedication of our wildland management people. They understand the problems and know how to mostly solve them but spending money on forest management isn't going to help officials get re-elected which is the number 1 concern. The Camp Fire in 2018. You could see that one coming. The area hadn't burned in years and the amount of ground fuel built up was heavy, leading right into the town (Paradise). Most of the people there had done little to no fire mitigation. Areas around Lake Tahoe, the same thing. Thick forest and brush, right up to people's homes, and many cases branches actually touching the homes. I told my wife, if a fire starts on the wrong day, wind & low humidity, there will be no stopping it. Living in the foothills of the Rockies, we had been evacuated a couple times for one to two weeks. It's traumatic, that's why I look at forests. We love the Lake Tahoe area, as do the people who live there. I don't think they realize forest management doesn't mean putting every fire out. In a healthy forest, mature trees often survive fire. That's hard to do with buildings scattered all over. The mitigation efforts being done is a drop in a bucket. The devastating fires are here to stay.

I don’t know about the USA but here in Australia we have green groups and EPA forcing us to put out fires as quick as possible. We aren’t allowed to let them just burn a lot of us FF would like to let them run a bit to clear out the scrub. The indigenous people’s did it and I think we should too.

I lived on the south shore for a tad over 30 years grew up there i know the area quite well and remember the angora fire. That of course was before I got involved in fire however the area of Gardner mountain and angora ridge is largely a death trap as it is beautiful, yet, barely room for a pickup let alone multiple apparatus and its narrow and steep one side you see paradise valley the other side is fallen leaf... and its all thick n no safety zones, no alternate egress routes just the making of a very bad situation. the interesting aspects of fire is we have several bodies of water that can offer up thousands of gallons per minute with 45deg temps that can absorb a ton if btu’s. fire suppression is or should he about matching gpm to btu , 1250gpm at 40deg is capable of taking 11.8MBTU a 3000gal tanker about 28.1MBTU, a DC10 about 108MBTU if you can get them in, when we rely to heavily on one tool we get clumsy using others.....if we think about them. We need to rethink our strategies if we’re to handle whats coming. Ask yourself the question: why do structure fire departments use 5&6” hivol w 1.75 or larger attack lines for a single residence when wildland uses 1.5” hose or smaller yet the btu generation is a dozen fold?

@@WildfireEngineer It's all about supply and apparatus. Water has to be hauled to a wildland fire, there aren't fire hydrants spaced out in a forest. Look at the size of the water tender fleet on a wildland fire, the number of portable tanks set up and all the Type I and Type II helicopters with buckets or belly mounted tanks. There is no way to match gpm to btu output, there is a lot of land involved and no way to increase water supply. A fleet of Type I engines with master streams parked headlights to taillights could not stop fires burning like seen in this video. Besides, how to you keep those engine's tanks full?

@@Mermaid4Ever and therein lies our problem. As we leave the current thinking as is, id agree. However, I will agree to disagree on the part that there is no way to match gpm to btu. Sure we can, the only problems are delivery methods. I am 100% successful at providing water supply solutions when I am asked. It is not my job, however, to make YOU (meaning the team or division etc.) adopt it. If folks do not get me what I tell them its going to take, then it will keep burning and I don't lose sleep anymore over it. I dont argue much about it anymore, if you are convinced it cant be done and im wrong, then who am i to argue

They have actually made it to South Carolina also.

And Illinois to

Maine

@@sherrykendrick1765 I could see it when I was going to Red Bank on I-20. It was crazy how dense it was for smoke coming from fires over 2,000 miles away. For a minute I thought there was a brush fire nearby until I researched it. Stay safe out there.

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Does he know if his house made the only reason I am asking is because I was assigned to the fire I was one of the firefighters trying to put it out

@Ryder--What's nice is the camera guy not yelling, "OMG, OMG, Eff, Eff, OMG!!!!" for 20 minutes.

What should be on my wildfire preparedness checklist? The best way to protect your home from a wildfire is to remove or reduce the potential fuel within a 30-feet safety zone around your home. (If you live in a high-risk area, increase the safety zone to 100 feet): Remove vines from house walls. Move shrubs and other landscaping away from your house walls. Remove highly flammable and low-branched trees, such as evergreens, eucalyptus, and juniper. For remaining trees, remove limbs within 15 feet of the ground. Clear tree debris, such as fallen limbs, leaves, and pine needles and cones. Move stacked wood outside the safety zone. Pay special attention to clearing debris beneath decks and other overhangs. Consider removing wooden exterior structures, such as decks and patios, or replacing them with more fire resistant materials. Install non-combustible roofing and siding materials, such as metal, slate, or concrete. Clear debris from gutters. Install electrical lines underground, You may also want to collect some basic firefighting tools, including hoses, buckets, shovels, axes, rakes, and saws. However, do not attempt to fight large, fast-moving wildfires on your own.

hello bradon how are you doing

You don't know how. You don't have the survival skills.

there are literally hundreds of major fires between the western us and Canada that are active right now. just type in "Active fire map" in google.

Quincy California is where our base camp is right now

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@@jennifersmith842 Doing pretty good! How are you doing?

@@Living_EDventures am doing good hun thanks do you mind if we get to talk and know each other more off here

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We also need to burn everything every winter. I am of the attitude that its better it burns now so it doesn't next year.

They say NO $. Yea cuz the Politics line their pockets with Cash $$$

"Tree huggers" have been pushing for controlled burns for decades, Chris. Clear cutting is just an expensive way to drastically increase erosion. Forests are adapted to frequent, low-intensity burns, and that's what we should be doing. Preventing fires, ALL fires, is how things got as bad as they are now.

Try funding the removal of all the dead standing "match sticks" would be a good start. Convincing the head forests is another story. When is the Fish and Wildlife agency going to get involved. The silence is killing "their" habitat too.

You have the most intelligent comment here. I'm in Pennsylvania and we're just now seeing the haze from the wildfires over a month ago. More handouts Instead of responsible forest management.

The scoopers can still use Lake Tahoe, they only need a few feet of water to scoop from safely, the thing that will stop scoopers generally is lack of a strait enough waterway to be able to get a full load, takes about 12 seconds of good contact with the water for a super scooper, so a strait shot of good water approximately 1500-2000 feet long to get a full load

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Fire is still burning Easterly into Nevada. Only 4% containment. Heat and high winds every afternoon. Aircraft is being used when ever conditions allow.

A lot of fires in the area at that time though. Maybe if they had enough resources. Also it's stupid to think they can stop fire. At this point it's better it burns today so if doesn't tomorrow. Just burn all of Cali now so tomorrow it's already been burned. Putting the fire out just puts it off for another season. Nothing is safe.

@@solomongabert6776 They didn't have resources for it while it was small but then have them for when it is big? Yeah that is illogical and also not what they stated.

It takes time to mobilize resources for a wildland firefighting incident, and once civilians are evacuated from the area ,you have to pull backuntil you have additional resources. Human life must be risked ,if necessary, to protect human life. However, it is completely unacceptable to risk human life merely to protect property. That is the harsh reality of the matter!

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Because that’s not how you fight a wildfire.

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hello montana how are you doing

@@jennifersmith842 hello Jennifer.

@@montanamornings8526 hello hope you doing good hun do you mind if we get to talk more off here

@@jennifersmith842 I’m sorry. I don’t understand what your asking?

@@montanamornings8526 just asking if we could become friends off her

Because that’s not how you fight a forest fire. No need to fight the fire that is already burning along the road. It’s a waste of resources and won’t do anything. Everyone is driving by because you have to get In front of it. And get lines started well in advance and get to what can be protected at saved. What’s already burning is burnt. Why waste time on it when it’s not stopping anything?

Apparently you don't know anything about forest fires! Attempting to extinguish the fire directly would be pure madness! Containing the fire is the most they can hope for.

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@@jennifersmith842 fine as frog hair.

@@robertnelson432 that’s good to know hun do you mind if we get to talk more off here

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You’re darn tootin. On a serious note more than likely not unless it can travel 40+ miles in a week. Anything can happen

@@GD-cs4nh I'm hoping it's well contained and put out soon as well as the other fires going on. 🙏

in california you only need 1 steady burn red light to be an "emergency vehicle" , they can use white, blue, amber depending on the department fleet mechanic.

@@Pretype only leo is permitted to run blue in ca

Those are white LED strobes that tend to have a slight blueish look at times. You won't find any fire apparatus in the state of CA, unless an Fire Investigator, running blue lights.

hello steven how are you doing

It’s not that easy.

People. 😔

smoke doesnt create rain

it jumped 89 yesterday

Thank God for the little bit of rain we got on Monday.

Great point about the seeds to still kinda sad

No. Just trying to stay at a safe distance.

the person filiming may not be a fireman

No. I think it is 88. If it was 50, the cop cars would be el Dorado Sheriff!

@@ananda_miaoyin thank you for clarifying