Neat how this video shows perfectly how the media n general public have no clue what they're talking about but the people that live and work there do.

I went to Yellowstone during these fires. Intending to stay there for about a week. After 3 days we had to evacuate but the fires surrounded our escape road. We sat for 5 hours on the side of the mountain with 12 other cars while firemen watered down a pathway. We had to drive through a raging inferno with two fire trucks one at the front end one at the end of the caravan shooting water at the side of the roads to get us out. Harrowing experience that I still remember to this day.

love the part when he says where is Gaddafi when you need him ha ha

"I kept hoping maybe Gadafi would do something outrageous but he didn't" lol

I grew up in that area. Was in Cheyenne Wyoming when the '88 fire occurred. The smoke made the noon dau sun seem like twilight. It was heartbreaking to see the charred remains after the fire. But I visited the park in 2008, recovery was well on its way after just 30 years. Still the most beautiful part of this world to me.

I’ve lived through tornadoes (so many I can’t count), earthquakes (though not major), hurricanes (including Katrina) and the 2016 Gatlinburg wildfire. Wildfire terrifies the living daylights out of me.

Botanical succession is not exactly a mainstream topic taught in schools but is both necessary yet feared because one of its principle agents is fire.

Wow, it’s almost like fires Are unpredictable

A wildfire is the natural way of receding a forest that gets too big. They also facilitate the release of seeds from pine cones and other seed pods due to the intense heat. However, scheduled and well executed control burns are great ways to help this process.

I have been their multiple times and its as beautiful as ever. Nature is wonderful .

i remember this, i was 7, it happened a few months after we visited the previous summer. i was so worried about the animals and i was upset that all the stuff i'd just seen was gone. idk why no one told me that forests GROW BACK

There is a recurring theme in the discussion and study of natural processes like wildfires, coastal flooding, inland flooding and even infection and disease: suppression can and does reduce frequency, but inevitably leads to greater catastrophic events when suppression measures are inevitably breached. Not to say that suppression is always bad. Just be aware that it will never be the final word.

4:35 *LMFAO* That was when Gaddafi was super loco...

Watching how quickly those flames moved was incredibly scary...

In Australia we get fires all the time, and our main way of controlling them is "back burning", controlled burning in winter to clear underbrush and create fire breaks. One of the reasons why the bushfire were so bad this year was because there was little safe window to backburn as winter was very warm and dry.

what really happened was that yogi bear dropped his mixtape

You guys should make a video on the 2003 cedar fire. It completely changed California fire response & destroyed hundreds of home largely due to government bureaucracy. I'm biased because it burned my house down on live tv and my family lost everything, but it legitimately was objectively historic.

It helps the soil, adding minerals, and clears out trees and brush that need to be removed, so nature takes its course.

I wanted to add most of the fires started and burned in very rermote areas. If you have never been to Yellowstone you have no idea what it is like

I have been to the park before and after and the fire, its as beautiful as ever. Fire is just part of nature. What some may not realize is Yellowstone is a big tourist destination and fuels the local economy. Some people may not have found the park so wonderful after the fire. I am not one of those people as I knew it would make a come back. I can understand some not loving it soon after the fire.

I'm retired from the U.S. Forest Service and I was in Yellowstone in 1988 for 5 weeks as a crew boss for a military fire crew from Ft. Lewis, Washington. We were assigned to the North Fork Fire, which burned in the western portion of the park and west onto the Targhee National Forest. It was the largest fire in the park that year, at some 475,000 acres. This was a human caused fire that started when a firewood cutter on the national forest tossed a cigarette on the ground. Full and immediate fire suppression action was taken on this fire, which started about about a month to six weeks after all the rest of the fires had started (by lightning). In spite of the immediate action taken on it, it was the largest fire of that season. This fact was left out of this video and is often left out of videos, news reports and articles written for magazines and newspapers. Research has shown that large areas of Yellowstone burn all at once about every 300-500 years. The other crew bosses and our strike team leader concluded that just by looking at the park"s trees when we first arrived. This was a natural event and vital for the park's resources to remain in balance.

the sf bay area has to deal with wildfire all the time with the miles of hills of dry grass that surround nearly every city- the town where i live has a good chunk of homes backed up to these hills. every so often firefighters do controlled burns of the brush to keep it down, but what's great is that there's a service called goats-r-us that rotates a herd of goats around the city, and they eat the grass to keep it short. it makes everyone happy (especially the goats)

I was there, family vacation when I was 5. Amazing memories. On the same trip a kangaroo escaped from a zoo,, and my mom saw it and she was called nuts until the news reported it.

We will remember you Paradise, California

snow in september sounds more impressive to me than the fire itself actually... how do you guys deal with that climate up there?

Humans.. We can predict rain... We can predict weather... We can predict fires... We can predict natural disasters... We can predict what hits our planet from space..... Meanwhile: We CAN’T PREDICT ANY OF IT!!

I did some control burns last year while studying dendrology. Fires are crucial to a forest’s survival.

Remember those horrible fires at the beginning of 2020? The fires would have happened regardless, the only reason people got hurt was housing encroaching on nature. In other words, it’s our fault.

Heck, I say that if you build your house in the middle of a forest, you buy fire insurance and accept the fact that your entire home might burn down at anytime. But seriously, don't build your house in the middle of a forest! EDIT: I have to edit this and say that also climate change is making these wildfires worse and more frequent, and maybe the fossil fuel companies should stop spilling millions of tons of oil and carbon into the ocean and the air.

“Wildfire” emphasis on “wild”. Nature does that.

California knows this too well. 2017 was a hard year.

Excellent video about a complicated subject. One could study this fire, the West Fork Complex Fire, the Yarnell Fire, the Canyon Creek Complex Fire, the the Cedar Fire etc. and draw far reaching conclusions, or no conclusion at all. The only consensus I can glean is that we went through a half century of excessive fire suppression, followed by a couple decades of over logging with little mechanical thinning, followed by a few more decades of environmental extremism in some areas, coupled with complexities from global warming that are still unknown (but definitely exist, I'm no naysayer), or how to actually plan for it in the years and decades to come when "bad fire year" becomes the norm for every year. CalFire's director recently noted that the $150m budget his group recently received (an increase), pales in comparison to the $180 BILLION cumulative cost of fires in 2017 for the state. But no one wants to pay more taxes for fire prevention. So we continue to learn the hard way. Someone else's home, town, park, etc. are destroyed, therefore it's someone else's problem, we selfishly, short shortsightedly think.

Snow in September, on the 11th. Got more of my attention than anything else.

You can tell from how dry it is that it isn't going to be good

Wildlifes are part of nature but in area where ppl live controlled burns are needed imagine the fires that happen millions of years ago

Controled burning is very important. They used to do that back in the day!

Love the Gadaffi comment. Too funny and so honest.

I was there... near Cooke(d) City and Silver (Cinder) Gate. The Angeles National Forest sent two engine strike teams (10 engines) to the park. Point being that the whole country got involved in suppressing those fires at the expense of their own needs.

Nah. What happened is that Smokey accidently brought a match to start a campfire and dropped it on a tree when he was a cub.

I was there and got run out of the Park by a ranger who ran toward us yelling you have to leave by the west exit of the park now !

I am going there this summer

I am bitter. They let the Black Mountain fire burn all summer in 2003 until it blew up. We were evacuated just as the fire jumped the ridge over our house.

Granted, an older video, but illustrative of the MSMs penchant for sensationalism over facts. Case in point: 0:40 re: "The Rim Fire." The video is about the 1988 Yellowstone Park fire. Yellowstone Park is located mostly in Wyoming, but also includes parts of Idaho and Montana. The 1988 Yellowstone fire would have to have been massive indeed to have spread to "parts of Yosemite...", which is located in California, somewhere around 1000 miles away!

Later, California would become a hells cape of fire.

The world's tallest and oldest tree is at Sequioia National Park in CA. The state is "passionate" with wildfires. The coastal redwood trees never get burned. Not even once.

inspiring video

Wow this is so sad

Sad that people would blame an unstoppable natural disaster on 1 guy because of their own ignorance

That Nero comment is a little funny. Even though it's common belief that he fiddled while Rome burned, he actively helped provide aid during the fire. Kind of ironic.

I like this guy but hes still got his sense of humor

Around 1900 we instituted a 100% extinguishment policy. This led to forest getting overgrown and creating ladder fuels, etc. We are now suffering the results of this, huge wildfires every year. This will continue to happen until the forest begin to look like they used to, getting burned out and recycled.

I’m watching while the camp fires are burning in Southern California and now they’re saying it’s the worst fire in SoCal history

Here after the california wild fires in 2020

I love my Christmas trees!!

And now due to so much rain, Yellowstone is closed once again because of flooding 😭

I made a once-in-a-lifetime 1991 trip to Yellowstone to take Kodachrome photographs. What I found was a cinder. Still have those ugly slides.

Fire cleanses all

Bruh the fire has ended on September 11

Now the amazon rainforest is now burning

yes it is

30 years later still no trees in 90% of the burnt areas

There is a fire! Let's set a fire!

Nature will operate in spite of us. When will we learn?

For a project... 1:58 - "All models went out the window." 4:00 - "Why don't you just put it out? Well, why don't you just stop a hurricane - with a tornado?" Restoration - 8:00 "Every plant had a strategy built into its genetics." 8:37 It will 2 to 300 years for the lodgepole pine trees to grow back to their full height." 10:08

Fires are nature's way of cleaning house 😊.

So basically all this news reporting was entirely pointless...?

As advanced as our civilization is, we are still completely and utterly at the whim of nature

We were camped there in June. I seem to remember three small fires burning on the ridge above the campground. It was stupid. Trust your so-called models instead of your common sense.

Went there today and there are still dead trees EVERYWHERE there are green ones but its like its trying so hard to rebuild. Its a Mess still. The National wonders was still Amazing to see. 😀

I went to Yellowstone probably 7 years ago when I was probably 10 or younger and an old woman talked to me about how Yellowstone changed. She told me that all the trees there used to be green but are now dead. It's sad stuff to see old people have to experience the change that happened there.

yeah nice

Okey dokey smokey.. like a meteorite

Don't build houses in the forest. Simple enough. I love Nature, too, but if build in the wrong place, Nature may take your house.

People always want someone to blame

@ 9:23 Sko Buffs!

Fires are do have in forest some tree can’t grow new trees with out fire

FireWatch :D the game.

On Sept 11................ Interesting

This would be meaningful if the forest were burning in socal, but its actually the houses that are burning, so this is a diversion.

. . . at a boy New York Times . . .

Snow in September? What a strange climate! The first flurry in an average area that's neither desert, tropical nor subtropical befalls in late November (around Thanksgiving).

If only they knew about all the fires that are happening now...

🐲 the Year of the Dragon 1988🐉

It looked good when we visited last month and all the creatures were out. Lakes looked awesome and the mountains were snow covered. To many uneducated people making assumptions. GO FIGURE

Exactly. The Amazon will come back strong as ever And maybe help the ozone

Who else came here from Firewatch?

our national forests are soo poorly managed ,ray charles could do a better job!!!! can take yo out there right now and show you 1000 cord of firewood lying down just waiting to burn or be harvested , but are not allowed to harvest it. just another fire waiting to happen

Moral of the story: the public should educate themselves and not interfere with experts

No wonder the media has lost all credibility

hello

I mean yeah, it will regrow but they didnt have to let that town burn, or whatever it was.

everything in the universe gets recycled. even your rotten soul.

And what saved old faithful inn ??? Wasn't the firefighters the fire leapt over the main fire caused by its own wind

How do you know about these things about yellow natural park?🧐

“Just put it out”😀 okay, mhm. Very good.

who else came because of english

The wildlife might have been killed by the wildfire. Start all over in breeding to the habitat.

MEDIA (don’t worry, I’m not blaming you NYT 😂😁): “OH MY GOD YELLOWSTONE IS GONE FOREVER 😩😩😩😩😩!!!!” MEDIA: “YAAAAYYYYY 😁😁😁😁🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🤩🤩🤩🤩YELLOWSTONE IS BACK!” ME: Ehhh...... DUUUUOOOOIIIIIHHHHHH 🤪🤪🤪🤪😂😂😂😂😂 OF COURSE IT’S FREAKING BACK! It’s called.....science. Ohhhhhhh 😯😯😯😂

this video is published by NYT channel, and my first though is 'wonder how they manipulated and distorted this story?'

From the same folks that brought us Vietnam !