Is there anything you can say publicly re: CalFire vs USFS and the Rim Fire? Local understanding is that CDF would have put it out before it got to be the 3rd largest fire in CA history.
Don
I haven't heard much about it other than it's a Federal Incident.
I went to a Fire up north but it wasn't mentioned in conversation. We weren't staying in the same place as the Investigators so we didn't hear any scuttlebutt at dinner or anything like that.
It got to a joint command after a few days. I've heard frustration expressed by local state firefighters.
There's a philosophical difference in the approach to fires between the two agencys apparently.
CalFire wants to put them out, USFS wants to "manage" them.
Don
Speak of the devil and, bam, there he is.
Welcome back, DB.
Thank you, Cow.
You've always been my favorite livestock.:-)
Seriously,
Don
Yeah, Most Holiness, me too.
Don – good to see you, old fart 😉
> Yeah, Most Holiness, me too.
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> Don – good to see you, old fart 😉
Beef; it's what's for dinner...
Blameuser; well, that's for city folk to decipher....
The real solution lies somewhere in the middle.
It is not very economic to perform control burns under emergency conditions.
There were two arson fires in my neck of the woods this summer.
The fires burned through some forest that had not burned for almost 40 years.
I definitely got the feeling that the fire fighters felt it was "burning good" and they were right. It was burning good for much of the time...slowly backing down the hill, seldom flaring up. However they spent $45 million in less than 60 days "controlling" the fire.
They could have done a lot of actual beneficial forestry work for $45 million.
