posted on Jun, 11 2012 @ 03:06 PM
Live up in Wyo. Saturday was insane! Seemed like the plume was directly covering Cheyenne. If the forest west of FoCo is anything like the forests
over by Laramie, this fire could burn for months! The Med Bow/Snowy Range has about 85-90% mortality due to the pine beetle infestation the last
Used to be a wildland firefighter a few years ago. My synopsis, is let it burn. Just unfortunate that the property and lives are intermixed.
Smelling the smoke made me long for those long hot summer days of busting tail, and wondering if the crew would ever get a hook on the incident.
Praying for a safe incident. Just hope everyone remembers, a tree can regrow, a house can be rebuilt, but don't take any chances when it comes to
If you want some detailed info from the Rocky Mtn Region (R2) GACC (Geographic Area Coord
they have the fire up to 36,000 acres. The info is down towards the bottom.
Here's the National Outlook for this morning.
National Fire Activity Initial attack activity: Light (89 new fires)
New large fires: 3(*)
Large fires contained: 2
Uncontained large fires: ** 17
Area Command Teams committed: 0
NIMOs committed: 1
Type 1 IMTs committed: 3
Type 2 IMTs committed: 3 .
**Uncontained large fires include only fires being managed under a full suppression strategy.
Light Initial Attack activity is pretty common for this time of year. 89 fires really isn't that much. I've seen mornings during briefings where the
activity was around 2,000 new fires the previous day. Hoping this summer doesn't get that bad, but the moistures this winter in the Rocky Mtn region
might dictate otherwise.
Here's a nice up to date graphic
of what's burned so far.
*Edit: Just saw at the bottom of the Inciweb site it was saying it's burning in beetle kill area. Yikes...Might explain the 300 ft flame lengths.
Not much you can do in those conditions. Tankers are just going to slow fire growth and slow is being very generous. Crews won't be put in those
areas. Having a Type 1 team will definitely help because they get resource priority (i.e. whatever they deem necessary they'll get in most
circumstances.) Nice thing is it's still quite early in the season, so resources aren't stretched too thin just yet.
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