Almost lost my house today. Crazy
10-10-2017, 06:51 PM
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Almost lost my house today. Crazy
Wow! What a day! Was just a few yards from lodpsing my house today. 3 of my 5 acres went up in flames. Those firemen are bad a$$ folks, as they literally saved our whole neighborhood. Not one house was lost in a span of about 30 acres that that fire encompassed. i recently have had some work done to my pond, so it's been drained. If it would've been full, it would have been easy pickings for water with the helicopters.
It started by some weed who thought it would be smart to drive home on a flat, so flat that the tire peeled off and he kept on driving on his rim, like they do in the Die Hard movies. Well, a spark came off of it, hit some nearby dry grass, and here came the flames. The sparking was actually witnessed by a neighbor, who tried stomping the fire as it started, but it just took off.
Another neighbor followed that low life to his house, then reported him to the police. Big fines up ahead for that idiot.
It started by some weed who thought it would be smart to drive home on a flat, so flat that the tire peeled off and he kept on driving on his rim, like they do in the Die Hard movies. Well, a spark came off of it, hit some nearby dry grass, and here came the flames. The sparking was actually witnessed by a neighbor, who tried stomping the fire as it started, but it just took off.
Another neighbor followed that low life to his house, then reported him to the police. Big fines up ahead for that idiot.
10-10-2017, 06:53 PM
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This is part of my property, just a few yards from my house
10-10-2017, 06:55 PM
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My neighbor across my dried up pond from me had all his vinyl fencing burned/melted.
10-10-2017, 07:04 PM
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Wow! What a day! Was just a few yards from lodpsing my house today. 3 of my 5 acres went up in flames. Those firemen are bad a$$ folks, as they literally saved our whole neighborhood. Not one house was lost in a span of about 30 acres that that fire encompassed. i recently have had some work done to my pond, so it's been drained. If it would've been full, it would have been easy pickings for water with the helicopters.
It started by some weed who thought it would be smart to drive home on a flat, so flat that the tire peeled off and he kept on driving on his rim, like they do in the Die Hard movies. Well, a spark came off of it, hit some nearby dry grass, and here came the flames. The sparking was actually witnessed by a neighbor, who tried stomping the fire as it started, but it just took off.
Another neighbor followed that low life to his house, then reported him to the police. Big fines up ahead for that idiot.
It started by some weed who thought it would be smart to drive home on a flat, so flat that the tire peeled off and he kept on driving on his rim, like they do in the Die Hard movies. Well, a spark came off of it, hit some nearby dry grass, and here came the flames. The sparking was actually witnessed by a neighbor, who tried stomping the fire as it started, but it just took off.
Another neighbor followed that low life to his house, then reported him to the police. Big fines up ahead for that idiot.
Glad your place was spared. A lot of other people aren't as lucky.
Edwin
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10-10-2017, 07:10 PM
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Never had anything like that happen. Now I know what NascarMark felt like. The police were screaming in their megaphones to evacuate, and all the neighbors pulled together and got a plan going. In the meantime, I was able to load up all the insurance policies, hoe owners stuff, life insurance stuff, my rifles, and a few other things. My wife and I have sorta Had a plan for this by hooking up to our trailer and heading out, but the flames came on way too quick.
In the end, we never left our home, as the firemen themselves told us they had it under control.
In the end, we never left our home, as the firemen themselves told us they had it under control.
10-10-2017, 07:22 PM
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Never had anything like that happen. Now I know what NascarMark felt like. The police were screaming in their megaphones to evacuate, and all the neighbors pulled together and got a plan going. In the meantime, I was able to load up all the insurance policies, hoe owners stuff, life insurance stuff, my rifles, and a few other things. My wife and I have sorta Had a plan for this by hooking up to our trailer and heading out, but the flames came on way too quick.
In the end, we never left our home, as the firemen themselves told us they had it under control.
In the end, we never left our home, as the firemen themselves told us they had it under control.
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10-10-2017, 07:22 PM
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Glad you dodged the fire Auggie. Keep an eye on the winds, as they change the situation in a heart beat !!!! For us it was 2 months of dealing with the fires around us. Living with millions of acres of forest around you is great but does have one draw back....no amount of fire fighters or bombers are going to put out the huge fires we had....fire fighting efforts helped but in the end, it was Mother Nature that stopped them..... 23 days forced/ordered out....as you heard, not fun at all. Very stressful.
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10-10-2017, 07:27 PM
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The details in the pictures are hard to see but for a normal crew it would be easy to control. I used to do prescribed burns for prairies with just back pack pumps, a gator and drip torches. Was a lot of fun. If I was in your situation I would have been making a water line around the house. Glad your house survived, it really is amazing how fast that fire can move.
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10-10-2017, 08:35 PM
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A lot of the houses that are destroyed have cedar shake roofs. This is stupid IMHO. The wind drives embers for very long distances and when these embers land on cedar shake roofs they catch fire easily. Usually the fire has to get up next to the house to start things burning.
10-10-2017, 08:38 PM
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10-10-2017, 08:39 PM
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Glad you dodged the fire Auggie. Keep an eye on the winds, as they change the situation in a heart beat !!!! For us it was 2 months of dealing with the fires around us. Living with millions of acres of forest around you is great but does have one draw back....no amount of fire fighters or bombers are going to put out the huge fires we had....fire fighting efforts helped but in the end, it was Mother Nature that stopped them..... 23 days forced/ordered out....as you heard, not fun at all. Very stressful.
10-10-2017, 08:45 PM
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Glad things work out for you Augie, even if you are a hoe owner...
10-10-2017, 08:51 PM
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The details in the pictures are hard to see but for a normal crew it would be easy to control. I used to do prescribed burns for prairies with just back pack pumps, a gator and drip torches. Was a lot of fun. If I was in your situation I would have been making a water line around the house. Glad your house survived, it really is amazing how fast that fire can move.
Met with the Fire captain, as he was checking on us. When I asked what kind of charges Mr. Idiot with the driving at freeway speeds with just a wheel was facing, he said currently he is being investigated. But he did tell me it's going to be a bunch of $$ in penalties, especially since the plane and helicopters were charged by each minute of use. Come to find out it wasn't just a flat tire that happened a mile from home; he drove all the way from Grass Valley to his house off of Garden Bar road( for you folks not from around here, that equates to about 30 miles of back country road driving). Another Fire started about five miles from us, before ours did, and it also happened to be on his pathway home. So this guy must have been spraying off sparks from that wheel. He can't say it wasn't him, cause one, he was followed home, and two, there are imprints about 12" apart on the road that lead up to his house. Me, personally, I'd like to hang him for what he caused. There's a lot of old folks around here, and if this place would've went up in blazes, those folks would not have made it out.
As far as a water line, lol, that's the first thing I did, was turn on all the sprinklers surrounding my house. I have a 2HP submersible well pump strictly for irrigation, that can easily run 10 large area coverage sprinklers no problem.
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10-10-2017, 08:56 PM
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Wow glad things were able to be controlled by the firefighters....as Nascar Mark mentioned the fires here in BC this year were insane! We had 10,000+ evacuees here in town from all over mid to northern BC. Even had a couple small ones close to home from lightening strikes....but thankfully they put them out within 24 hours. Scary stuff for sure!
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10-10-2017, 08:56 PM
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A lot of the houses that are destroyed have cedar shake roofs. This is stupid IMHO. The wind drives embers for very long distances and when these embers land on cedar shake roofs they catch fire easily. Usually the fire has to get up next to the house to start things burning.
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