I did not, but I know several that were involved and thier work history and accomplishments
It wasn’t a let’s burn some **** and make a YouTube video event
And for sure it’s a good thing if done responsibly, that area has seen a lot of tragedy with fire and all it takes is a bad outcome ( perceived or real) or bad press and it’s a huge setback and a loss of faith
I live in Sonoma county and after our devastating fires in 2017 and 2019 people are jumpy and anxious and any sign of smoke gets called in
I log my casual outdoor fire pit “warming” fires with our dispatch center as the FD kept responding out on smoke investigations and Wildland fire call-outs to my place. None since
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You seem to be defending the effort, or reacting to something? Maybe I misunderstand your tone?
I have nothing but respect for the people involved and support controlled burns by all forest owners 100%. Pyros comment was making light of the discussion a few pages back about how hard it is to get volunteers to help with forest work. Somehow though, if fire is involved, it is easier to get help, which might just be because it is so rare. I know that if I invite the neighborhood over for a bonfire it seems they all show up every time, and bring their friends, people like "good fire".
We gave up trying to burn slash piles on one big thinning project. People on the freeway kept calling it in. Dispatch knew we were burning, lands knew, heck even the tribe knew and they were 30 miles away. The BC would come out every time, we'd chat about whatever and then he'd head back. Few hours later or the next day we'd see him again. I don't know that he had to respond every time, but he did, so whatever.
It was downright insanity when people were calling 911 because they saw smoke and there was 4" of heavy wet snow on the ground. He told me that time it was a neighbor who called it in when they saw smoke on way home from town. I talked to the neighbor and she was all defensive "We had that fire that got so close so we are all real scared of fire."
Freaking fire was in late summer fifteen years earlier and caused by lightening. It left a scar in the minds of everyone on that side of the mountain. I found out that almost all the calls were from people who lived nearby and would see the smoke on their way home from town.
So any projects in that area we just chip or grind, it is less hassle. Agencies were all fine, they kept saying they were sorry to bother us. We never burned in even remotely marginal conditions. Always in wet or snowy weather, piles were dry and burned out by evening, light wind at most.
We head ten miles down the same mountains and burn all day no problem. FD in that area says we don't have to tell them, but state rules say we do, so I call it in every time.
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