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Post by johnhens on Jul 21, 2015 12:02:32 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2015 12:23:33 GMT -8
Try this link. I'm not sure I see what's new here. Maybe Tarol can enlighten us. In my experience, it seems that firefighters choose a defensible position such as natural fire break, road or highway, etc. and attempt to keep the fire from crossing. But other than protect assets within that perimeter, of which there may be few if any, they don't try to stop the fire where it is but rather at the more easily defensible fire break.
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Post by tarol on Jul 22, 2015 5:22:19 GMT -8
I'm living and working in the land of rocks - we suppress everything here. Weather is the largest driving force of fire. If there is no wind on a fire we typically catch them small. But put a 20 mph wind or greater on it and, well, we have what we had on Friday. I'm sure everyone has seen what happened on Interstate 15 on their TV screens. We have ignitions in Cajon Pass almost daily that we catch small, but every couple of years one gets away. We have the busiest air tanker base in the nation in close proximity to our forest and more engines and crews than anywhere else, but sometimes we can't fight the weather.
We had a lightning ignited fire in the San G Wilderness a couple of weeks before the human-caused Lake fire - the second completely engulfed the first, was not slowed down the least bit.
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