Don’t really know if the rest of the nation is seeing this on the news, but we’re on fire and containment is still less than 10% (the next report may state we’re back to 0% containment, it seems to change by the hour). The area that’s burnt so far is the size of LA, 469 square miles, over 300,000 acres.
Brian . . . So far my area is not burning, I live in the southwest corner of the state, but the northwest corner of Arizona is on fire and can see the mountains at night burning.
John . . . think I heard that the fire is bigger than the city of Los Angeles . . . and continues to grow.
Wendy . . . so far we’ve be very lucky, last year our area seemed to be on fire and a couple of years agoa we had major flooding . . . go figure.
Todd . . . hope you’re able to stay in Florida, the temps have been in the 100’s and this fire is going somewhat crazy, they now have Type 1 team fighting the fires (no sure what Type 1 means, other than they now have complete authority over all firefighters . . . they must be a special trained team, somewhere I think I heard they have about 100 firefighters where other smaller fires in the area have twice as many on the lines but not as well trained, but I not really sure).
What about the fact that most of the west, and even for awhile there most of Florida which is a marshland in a good portion, is all burning at the same time, while in other areas is drought, famine, wars and rumors of wars…
i went thru yellowstone last year and most of the burnt trees standing and on the ground are still there after the 83 fire, it takes a long time for them to decompose where it is so dry.And the new trees were only 7 or 8 ft tall.
I will be on 1 of those teams when I get deployed. Still waiting on the call the last two days have been better in terms of weather & new fires. What that means is they are starting to get a grip on them but that could change in an hour or less. Time will tell.