California Fires

[Greenmantreeservice]

How does fires like what’s happening in LA affect work for y’all in California? (Or anywhere you see regular wildfires)

I assume most work is more forestry/line clearance/preventative, but is there a lot of post fire cleanup, especially in a more urban fire like this?

 

[Thomas Frank]

How does fires like what’s happening in LA affect work for y’all in California? (Or anywhere you see regular Chill Guy Clicker wildfires)

I assume most work is more forestry/line clearance/preventative, but is there a lot of post fire cleanup, especially in a more urban fire like this?

As you mentioned, a lot of work focuses on preventative measures like forest management, controlled burns, and line clearance to reduce the risk of wildfires spreading. This involves creating firebreaks, thinning forests, and maintaining vegetation to mitigate potential damage.

 

[ATpro]

The problem where these fires in Ca. are is the terrain and it's physical features. The land is build for burning, plant life has adapted to fire and in most cases need fire to replicate. When man invades nature there are places that man doesn't have imminent domain, the hill country around LA. is one such place. Leave the brush and you have a fire hazard, clear the brush and you may have mud slides. The lands geological history is young and still unsettled and being upgraded daily. Erosion transforms the landscape and the hill country around LA is very unsettled. What ever you do it will create consequence.

Back in the 90s I and other Burn Managers and Foresters were invited by some of the timber Co's. to come out to CA and give our assessment of the situation and build a plan for fire management. Some went to North CA and others and I went to the LA hill country.
When looking at the situation and consequence as stated it was our conclusion that you had to approach it with multi planning, one of clearing the brush and the other of fire direction management.

Prescribe Burn seem to be a third rail that we planned on, instead using a forestry mulcher on a skid steer and excavator to clear the brush in around homes and up or down hills as much as possible was a better solution because it kept the root system intact and helped prevent mug slides. By removing the brush it also created a fire brake and gave you a place you could backfire and create a larger safety zone when a fire was present.

Like in Prescribe Burning you plan on shaping the fire. Fire depends on fuel, fire will follow the fuel, you can use the fuel to shape the fire. That means leaving fuel in the direction you wish it to go.

But with 70mph wind best just get out of the way!