Forest Fire

Bruce Culberson

Bruce Culberson

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I spent last week working long shifts (13-24 hr shifts) at night fighting a fire south of town. The fire is/was 35,000 hectares.
Here are a couple pics, I'll try to get more tomorrow.

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It rained last night and today which shold put a damper on things. There is a 150 man wall tent camp set up at the ball diamonds for the firefighter crews.

Obviously I didn't get any knife work done so a few of your orders are now a week behind....


Bruce
 
Seems to be a bad fire year. A couple of my friends spent several weeks in Quebec fighting the fires there earlier this summer. Stay safe.
 
Wow, stay safe.

Our fire season is going to hit any day now. Seems we are having small grass fires everyday... just waiting for the big ones to flare up. Tis the season.
 
I'd be real interested in seeing your firepack and it's contents. Stay safe!
 
That sucks. I got a text from a friend this weekend letting me know the place I had planned to go for a dayhike yesterday was burning, and found this just now:

Hello Everyone,

I wanted to let everyone know that the Chinnabee Silent Trail is temporarily closed due to a wildfire along the trail. It will stay closed through the weekend. Please help to spread the word. I will notify everyone when we reopen the trail.

Lesley M. Hodge
Natural Resource Specialist
USDA- Talladega National Forest- Shoal Creek RD
 
Wow, looks like a great experience-cool pictures too. We have one about 70 miles outside of town, all the stale ashes are sinking into the valley. We had a bad microburst storm on Saturday too, trees are down all over town. Good excuse to break out the boy's axe and machetes!
 
Hey Bruce,

We're watching this on the news from our home on Vancouver Island. Keep safe out there, and thanks for all your efforts, seriously. I know that's some seriously heavy duty work.

Thanks for posting the rarely seen photos. I used to work in the woods here and always enjoyed the pre-burnt side of things. What a change from that dirt/ash forest floor!
 
From one Fire Fighter to another, it looks like a good time pull in that OT. Stay safe out there brother.
 
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