Slightly related to surveying..I surveyed in this subdivision, but there is a huge fire in Weed, Ca. They are calling it the Boles fire.
It's been about 4 hours and the structure protection is saying 100+ homes/buildings lost.
A co-worker lost their home...probably others.
20 MPH winds with 40 MPH gusts.
I feel really bad for everybody there. To add to the disaster - not only the school, church, ect. burned, but the mill which is the livelihood for many of the people who's homes have burned is also burning.
Only updates are through scanners and social media.
BOLES FIRE
Boles Fire Incident Information:
Last Updated: September 15, 2014 8:45 pm
Date/Time Started: September 15, 2014 1:38 pm
Administrative Unit: CAL FIRE Siskiyou County
County: Siskiyou County
Location: Boles Creek, Weed
Acres Burned - Containment: 350 acres - 15% contained
Estimated - Containment: 15% contained
Structures Destroyed: Over 100 structures damaged or destroyed.
Evacuations: Evacuation orders for the communities of Weed, Carrick and Lake Shastina.
An Evacuation Center has been set up at the County Fairgrounds in Yreka.
Road Closures : I-5 and Hwy 97 is closed in the Weed area.
Long/Lat: -122.37432/41.42384
http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1063
Man, I don't see how people deal with the threat of fire. It is scary.
They just mentioned Cal Fire on the national news. I immediately thought of you Dave.
All of our friends out west be careful.
We have a group of 20, or so, fire fighters headed your way to help in fighting these fires. The Fire Training Academy is about a mile from my office and these guys are loading up on buses to head to the airport. Hope they will be of help to all of y'all facing this threat.
> http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Fire-rages-in-town-near-Yosemite-National-Park-5756355.phpbr >
The Boles fire is only "near Yosemite National Park" if your idea of "near" is about 300 miles.
Two different fires.
This is the one near Yosemite National Park.
In central California, firefighters spent the day working to build and reinforce containment lines in steep terrain near a foothill community south of an entrance to Yosemite National Park. About 600 residents from 200 homes remained evacuated, Madera County sheriff's spokeswoman Erica Stuart said.
The blaze has burned 320 acres and destroyed 61 structures - 33 of them homes - as well as 13 vehicles and four recreational vehicles, Cal Fire spokesman Dennis Mathisen said. The fire started off a road outside of Oakhurst, near Yosemite, and spread to Bass Lake, a popular year-round destination.
About 650 firefighters were on the scene of the blaze, which is 35 percent contained and has not affected the park, Mathisen said.
Appreciate the help - When we have these large complex fires, fire fighters come from all over the country to help.
Of the 200,000 acres burned this summer, I think they have a handle on most all of the fires. There is still some fire season left.
I think they have stopped the spread of the Boles fire and although it was small in size, it destroyed much of town.
They are the ones that put the screwy name on it
I don't know much about California but even I didn't understand why they had that title on a story about the Boles fire.
They are the ones that put the screwy name on it
If you read the story, it starts out talking about the Boles fire, then proceeds to describe the Yosemite fire. They probably already had a story started about the Yosemite fire, then it was updated with the Boles fire. Kind of a confusing story really. Probably generated by a computer.
Ima, ya you CA guys seem to get more than your fair share of fires. Odd, with all the rain we've been having none is blowing your way. Want some.
> Ima, ya you CA guys seem to get more than your fair share of fires. Odd, with all the rain we've been having none is blowing your way. Want some.
We had a sprinkle last night - if you could call it that, we would take more if you would send it.
The forest fires are not all that bad. A lot of it needed to burn and it burned nicely. Other areas were burned down to bare sterile earth. (Of course I'm not talking about the Boles fire)
It was a poor management practice to;
#1 try eliminate fire from the eco-system to preserve timber for logging.
#2 completely stop all utilization of forest resources.
If the management was not hog tied with environmental regulations and lawsuits, they could get down to the business of truly managing the forest. Healthy forests need fires, just not 120 years worth of understory in the middle of the summer in the middle of a drought. They need to bring back fall burning. Both the Indians and the ranchers used to light fires when they came off the mountain in the fall. It helped with the grasses and forbes, which helped the wildlife. It also made the timber stands fire resistant.
