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WYDave
Posted 8/10/2018 10:28 (#6921827 - in reply to #6921500)
Subject: RE: California fires


Wyoming

California is getting into the end-game for how they've managed their forests and rangelands, as well as their real estate development practices.

The state ignored years and years of advice from people who foresaw these issues in wildland fire management - and here we are. The forests are stacked with fuel, there's huge swathes of beetle-killed trees in forests that should have been removed years and years ago, rural houses are often set in indefensible positions, and in cities they have little to no setback from each other, so fires spread rapidly when the fire comes into the urbanized areas. 

The firefighting costs when you get those heavy slurry bombers involved run into the 10's of thousands per hour - and their operations are not low-risk. The heavies are what you see on TV news, because they make for impressive footage on the evening news, but you often don't see the small tactical air drop aircraft - the single-rotor helo's and the SEATs (Single Engine Air Tanker) - which all farmers here would recognize immediately as Air Tractor crop-dusters. SEATs and their pilots can really get in crazy close when the FF's are dealing with smaller fires and things are moving quickly.

Right now, if we had a new fire here in Wyoming, it might be 10+ days before we could get resources - many of our resources from Wyoming are tied up in California. 

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