gizmo719 Posted April 20, 2011 Report Share Posted April 20, 2011 I'm curious to how busy your dept, county or state has been with wildland this year. I'm a wildland firefighter in Colorado and we have been hit hard, really hard before normal season. Also I've been on the interstate in Kansas and there everywhere. So please tell me what its like round your area, share pictures and stories even. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matte31 Posted April 20, 2011 Report Share Posted April 20, 2011 Well, our fire department doesnt have any wildland unit, its just the regular dept who extinguish and if its a larger fire then the National guard get called in.The big fire season havent startet YET, but some small grass fire has been reported.No pics for the moment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest blimp666 Posted April 20, 2011 Report Share Posted April 20, 2011 Our dept is busy lots of grass fires Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erfd Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 We have had very few this year actually in my city due to rain, snow today , etc. and nothing big in state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njboy13 Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 Had some kids smoking stuff in their backyard and set some grass on fire, then there was a car fire next to a tree and the tree burned. And occasionally something on the train lines will start to smoke/burn. That's about the extent of 'wildfires' we get here in urban NJ, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyPI Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 Call me "ronald" I'm most notably rememberable from a movie called backdraft.. =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aitor Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 In Spain there usually are many fires in the mountains and forests, and they usually are very large, thousands of acres burned. In that fires I think that the local (the city, location or comunity) firefighters works in the fire and when is too big the UME (emergency military unit) goes to cooperate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reece.c Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 In Australia we have massive bush fires. There have been several fires in the past years that have killed and burn thousands of acres, on that comes to mind is black friday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizmo719 Posted April 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 Yeah, in Colorado we have already had three type 1 incidents already. That's usually what we have all season. I know we also lost roughly 20-40 houses so far, 15 in one fire. For three weeks in march he had at least 3 a week. It's been busy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jab16 Posted April 22, 2011 Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 I live in texas. here is some info on what its been like here so far.Since January 1800 fires 5,000 structures Damaged 1.4 million acresfires in 252 of of my states 254 counties since December 21, 2010. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickyrescue Posted April 22, 2011 Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 Over here in LA County we are still getting rain in late April but that means that next year there will be a lot of major Brush Fires during Fire season.The latest one, Crown Fire: 14,000 acres (57 km2) burned, 2000 homes evacuated. For the first time ever LACoFD called in the 747 supertanker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizmo719 Posted April 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2011 Holy hell, the last ran I was ran was 5000 acres 8000 home evacuated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussianRescueR Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 I firefighter EMERCOM of Russia. I live in the Far East of Russia in Primorye. Last summer with the huge forest fires us mercy, and all last summer in our region have been no areas of forest fires. However, this spring has brought to our land a lot of fire. Over the past 3 weeks fire service of EMERCOM in my city respond on fire of dry grass and forest fires around the city on 20-30 times per day. Total from 1 April to date, in my region recorded about 200 forest fires have destroyed the forest over an area of ??300 hectares. Here it should be noted that the EMERCOM respond to extinguish fires only when there is a threat to life, health and human settlements. In all other cases, the forest fires put out forest protection officers or reserve where the fire occurred.Photos from the forest fires of summer 2010 in Russia.Then, to extinguish the fire was involved not only EMERCOM, but the army, police, and simply volunteers. Also put out our fires helped friends from neighboring countries.The burned car engineering troops of the Russian army during the fighting forest fires:Sometimes, to extinguish a forest fire had to pull off a few dozen kilometers from the nearest road: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussianRescueR Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 I firefighter EMERCOM of Russia. I live in the Far East of Russia in Primorye. Last summer with the huge forest fires us mercy, and all last summer in our region have been no areas of forest fires. However, this spring has brought to our land a lot of fire. Over the past 3 weeks fire service of EMERCOM in my city respond on fire of dry grass and forest fires around the city on 20-30 times per day. Total from 1 April to date, in my region recorded about 200 forest fires have destroyed the forest over an area of ??300 hectares. Here it should be noted that the EMERCOM respond to extinguish fires only when there is a threat to life, health and human settlements. In all other cases, the forest fires put out forest protection officers or reserve where the fire occurred.Photos from the forest fires of summer 2010 in Russia.Then, to extinguish the fire was involved not only EMERCOM, but the army, police, and simply volunteers. Also put out our fires helped friends from neighboring countries.The burned car engineering troops of the Russian army during the fighting forest fires:Sometimes, to extinguish a forest fire had to pull off a few dozen kilometers from the nearest road: P.S: sorry for double post Moderator please delete the previous message Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizmo719 Posted April 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 Do you guys only use "Piss packs" aka water backpacks or do you also use handlines(10+ people with shovels and hand tools and chainsaws)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizmo719 Posted April 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 here some pics from one I was on 2 years ago.This was a plan that was dropping retardent and crashed due to smoke. My he RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aitor Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 The above plane is a B17, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizmo719 Posted April 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 Which one, I i remember correctly the picture of the tanker dropping retardant is a P-3. I couldnt tell ya what the crashed plan was, i was at the head of the fire attacking a finger at the time we heard about the crash on over the radio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sven Posted May 1, 2011 Report Share Posted May 1, 2011 in the Netherlands is a continuing drought so there is a code red alert. The Fire dept. is responden with lots of vehicles to nutare fire's and ther are lots of big grass fire's and one them is so big that we are going to evacuate a city, witch is very rear in the Netherlands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim_Wizard Posted May 18, 2011 Report Share Posted May 18, 2011 Hard, we've had a crap load of grass fires, may go down to north carolina too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newfoundking Posted May 19, 2011 Report Share Posted May 19, 2011 OH MY GOD, I AM SURROUNDED BY TREES!Good thing the city woods never burn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizmo719 Posted May 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2011 Hard, we've had a crap load of grass fires, may go down to north carolina too.What do u mean go down to N.C. are you the national callout??OH MY GOD, I AM SURROUNDED BY TREES!Good thing the city woods never burnThey do in Colorado haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim_Wizard Posted May 27, 2011 Report Share Posted May 27, 2011 What do u mean go down to N.C. are you the national callout??Live in way western virginia near NC border. Get some pretty decent grass fires and they need mutual aid. (Fixed) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLDRMB Posted June 17, 2011 Report Share Posted June 17, 2011 The above plane is a B17, right?The Flying Fortress as a firefighting plane?Interesting day...Here in SC we have fires comin down from North Carolina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aitor Posted June 17, 2011 Report Share Posted June 17, 2011 The Flying Fortress as a firefighting plane?Interesting day...Here in SC we have fires comin down from North CarolinaYes, I saw one in a photo of a book I have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
