Fire Camp

[Oregon Viking]

Fire fighter setting up camp. 1700 total in our small town. Fighting a 125,000 acre fire that could have been extinguished when it was 1/4 acre. Nope wilderness, can not use fire suppressant... Forest service said... let it burn!
Oops!

Thank you Fire fighters!!

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[WannaDig3687]

Is that for the Chetgo Bar fire?

 

[Oregon Viking]

Is that for the Chetgo Bar fire?

Yes it is. Chetco bar fire is about 5 miles from Brookings-Harbor. 7 homes lost, I know 5 of the families being a local.
One of the homes had a 10,000 gallon water tank on the property, installed after the 2002 Biscuit fire. It was not used.

 

[BosnMate]

Can't log because of the spotted owl and marbled murlette, but it's OK to just let it burn, won't hurt them a bit.

 

[Oregon Viking]

Can't log because of the spotted owl and marbled murlette, but it's OK to just let it burn, won't hurt them a bit.

Yep! The spotted owl had no trouble relocating. Then the Barred owl attacked it! Forest service/fish and game issued permits to shoot... the barred owl. Smart.
I have been informed the people who have lost homes/outbuildings/property can NOT sue because of a "left leaning " law.
BS!!
Our two grocery stores have a forest circus rep explaining what the winds will do... where they will blow... and when!
I'm wearing my PLP shirts and pretty much correcting them 'till they just stop talking... or walk away.
I really want to smack someone!
They let a 1/4 acre fire burn....said good for the forest... until the Chetco effect hit. Winds blowing from the east, down the Chetco... the reason Brookings has 90+ degree weather and the towns 25 miles to the north and the south are 20 degrees cooler. They said what? that's not possible.....

 

[DizzyDigger]

OV, sorry brother...sadly, there's too many people living in a world of their own delusions.

You get some beautiful sunsets, no doubt! If I ever get down that way again youse and
me are gonna go shoot some pics!