Yeah this happened a couple of months ago. Cal Fire feels they are above the law at times.
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I heard on the news today that CalFire has a "massive" hiring program already in place for this season.
Really massive. They're hiring 100 additional seasonals. I guess that must sound impressive to Joe Homeowner but 100 people in a state as large as California isn't even a drop in the bucket.
Really massive. They're hiring 100 additional seasonals. I guess that must sound impressive to Joe Homeowner but 100 people in a state as large as California isn't even a drop in the bucket.
I'll send some of this rain that way.
Please do.
100?!? Geeze, we hire 14 each year and we're TINY.
Yup...that's 100 additional seasonals added to how ever many they normally hire. So you get 100 green troops spread out over the entire state...who am I kidding, most of them will go to SoCal...and that's supposed to make everybody feel all cozy and secure? It's just something they came up with to make a little media splash.
In the meantime they don't want to come up with any more money for fallers or dozers or water tenders or runners or....
Gonna be a long season.
But, it is still raining at my house. More than yesterday's drizzle today.
I have been a Firefighter for 16 yrs and now I'm a contractor. IS-700 is for the most part too much for a contractor, but it does help you to understand the Incident Command system. You should know who your boss (Felling Boss) is on a fire, that you have every right to make a Safety Stop and not go to the Command Post and tell IC that your water was too warm to drink today. That's it in a nut shell, sorry I cant give you a cert for that
The fires have reached Santa Cruz county today. 10 square miles of poison oak. I hope I don't get called tonight.
Hope you have good boot laces!
I have very expensive Nomex laces in my Whites. Now where did I put my boots?Hope you have good boot laces!
Nomex laces? I did not know such a thing existed! Be careful out dere!
Air strike!
RandyMac
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let it burn
Oh, god, poison-oak smoke, probably my biggest fear. Pretty sure that would kill me.
treeslayer2003
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no joke Nate, i'v known folks to be hospitalized from inhaling the vapor while burning poison ivy vines.
I read somewhere that something like 60% of wildland fire hospitalization injuries were due to inhaling poison-oak smoke. I'll look around a bit to see if I can substantiate that number, but even if it's urban mythology, it still makes me nervous. We don't have anywhere near as much of the stuff here as there is in CA or even OR, but I do run into it, and in fire-prone places. Here's some I found last week on a burned-over site just opposite, and only about 100 yards from, a place that burns almost every year.
EDIT: notice the little white spangly bits? That's flowers. There will be more of the stuff next year.
EDIT: notice the little white spangly bits? That's flowers. There will be more of the stuff next year.
I read somewhere that something like 60% of wildland fire hospitalization injuries were due to inhaling poison-oak smoke. I'll look around a bit to see if I can substantiate that number, but even if it's urban mythology, it still makes me nervous. We don't have anywhere near as much of the stuff here as there is in CA or even OR, but I do run into it, and in fire-prone places. Here's some I found last week on a burned-over site just opposite, and only about 100 yards from, a place that burns almost every year.
EDIT: notice the little white spangly bits? That's flowers. There will be more of the stuff next year.
HERBICIDE!
Even that's not enough, at least not immediately -- the dead stems can still give a rash for several years! I HATE poison-oak!
