Fire

[Drptrch]

What Medics do when there's no injuries on your division [emoji106][emoji106]

 

[Kyler Monares]

What Medics do when there's no injuries on your division [emoji106][emoji106]

Rats nest!!!!!!

 

[Drptrch]

Rats nest!!!!!!

Nicely bundled back haul [emoji13][emoji13]

 

[Kyler Monares]

Nicely bundled back haul [emoji13][emoji13]

better to haul hose then a patient, that's for sure!

 

[Drptrch]

Here comes dinner and breakfast

 

[Drptrch]

Roughn' it up on a ridge top, with a fresh cup of Peets [emoji106][emoji106] in the LP/Ventana wilderness[emoji847][emoji847]

 

[Kyler Monares]

you have your rig set up pretty nice, Drptrch... whats the metal diamond plate mounted to the passenger side inside the bed?

 

[2dogs]

The Soberanes (MOCO) fire is around 108,000 acres. The cost as of a few days ago was $198 million dollars. The fire will go out when it is good and ready to. It appears that will have to be a season ending event like a large rainstorm.

I think there is 190 more miles of line to put in but it could just be that is how much more line needs to burn to reach control lines. The estimated acreage at containment should be around 180,000.

 

[Woos31]

Heard that. We had a few on a fire this year that really wanted blasted, and the thought occurred to me, "why not call the EOD's to blast it?" Management said "we'll figure out how to do that in the off-season", some of the offending trees burned out and fell over when nobody was driving by, we bucked the mess out of the road, and hopefully we'll remember the lessons learned next time. One of them took a DZOP an hour or two to dig out. A few others got pushed over with the Gradall. The pic a page or two back of me cutting up a cedar was one that I considered falling, and even had a plan for, but decided that it wasn't worth the risk since it would burn out soon enough that we could just keep the road blocked. Once it fell, it was only a half hour before we had it clear with a front-end loader. I bucked it while waiting. No harm, no foul. It's worth noting that bicyclists are complete idiots and pay no attention whatsoever to overhead hazards and have to be almost forcibly turned away from fires. Even then, they are resentful. Thanks, jerks, I just saved you from dying, don't mind the filthy guy with the chainsaw, he's just here to ruin your fun.

Not just you guys they act like that to, they treat road maintenance crews about the same if not worse because we stop them for no apparent reason............I guess graders, rollers, loaders, and belly dumps aren't a danger to them similar to fire it sounds lol

 

[2dogs]

Oop's on the Sobaranes Fire

There is a short video on youtube, WildlandFireLLC. Try water tender close call.

 

[Kyler Monares]

There is a short video on youtube, WildlandFireLLC. Try water tender close call.

 

[madhatte]

Not just you guys they act like that to, they treat road maintenance crews about the same if not worse because we stop them for no apparent reason............I guess graders, rollers, loaders, and belly dumps aren't a danger to them similar to fire it sounds lol

They're wearing a helmet, what more do you want from them?

 

[Woos31]

I'd really like to tes

They're wearing a helmet, what more do you want from them?

I'd really like to test out how tough those helmets really are............after I throw the stick in their spokes of course, that way it's an even test since it will have contacted pavement prior to the shovel contact finishing with helmet to boulder contact. Cuz ya know such a kind caring community of people need someone to look out for them right?

 

[Woos31]

Or a yellow jackets nest shaken and thrown out for them so as to again test that the bees cannot get into garments by way of short sleeve, short pants leg, or more importantly under the helmet. I wouldn't want a cyclist to know the feeling of a yellow jacket inside the helmet just a stingin like a mother F-er, near like a ball peen hammer peckin away up neath the tin hat in case no one else has had the priviledge. Them or bald hornets which is just worse all the way around, they hit like a pellet gun cept they're nice enough to bite and sting simultaneously while spinning circles

 

[madhatte]

Yellowjackets are just the worst. I've got nothing nice to say about them.

 

[Drptrch]

Set up a toilet for the crews, with a view

 

[madhatte]

A borate slurry view, looks like!

 

[PasoRoblesJimmy]

Yellowjackets are just the worst. I've got nothing nice to say about them.

When I see Yellowjackets swarming out of a nest in the ground, a 1/2 gal of Naphtha poured into their underground nest will suffocate them. Yellowjacket bites are extremely painful. When Yellowjackets inflict pain on me, I inflict pain on them.

 

[PasoRoblesJimmy]

When our son Dan was a paid on call Firefighter/EMT for Heritage Ranch Engine 33, he participated in one of the rescues shown on the Rescue 911 tv show. The episode shown on tv was filed in a level location that was far less dangerous than the steep and windy Godfrey Grade where it actually occurred. Placing the victim in the mud alongside the road until the ambulance arrived probably saved her life. Dan worked behind the scenes to get burn therapy for the young lady.

Rescue 911 - Episode 322 - "Burning Jeep Pin" (Part 1 of 2)

When a car accident leaves a teenage girl trapped in her burning truck, bystanders risk their lives to save her. This segment was taken from Episode 322 which aired on April 7, 1992 on CBS.

 

[Drptrch]

East side taking off