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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, booDawg... whewww... very very good to HEAR this!!
thanks for sharing!
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Saw the Alamo pyro-cumulus blow up to 30,000 feet before the afternoon onshores stripped off the top.
Now that it has fallen to earth like a defrocked angel, I'm choking on fumes over here.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, Ricky D ... oh my! :(
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jefferson County (Denver) officials said four unattended campfires have been discovered this week. Are hikers the dumbest life form?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Malemute, I wonder if the Bugaboos will be declared off-limits due to the state of emergency. In 1970 fires were raging down in MT and some of BC and the government agencies declared a SOE. Our party of three Californians and all other parties were told to pack our tents and get out of Boulder Camp and hit the road. All Provincial parks were shut down for the duration.
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Radish
Trad climber
SeKi, California
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There's a New Fire that popped up today right by the Needles. There is the Schaeffer Fire also around there that I'm sure is making the air pretty smokey for breathing. Watch out and plan your way out if need be.
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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Just came down The Dempster into Dawson City and went through about 40 miles of wildfires burning roadside. Scary! Now trying to figger our route over to Alaska and down through BC. May require some re figgering. Dawson City very smoky.
Susan.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Another long day--flying into Castle at dusk.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Thousands Flee Wildfires Burning In the US and Canada
(See photos)
http://www.mercedsunstar.com/news/nation-world/article160371209.html
Wildfires barreled across the baking landscape of the western U.S. and Canada, destroying a smattering of homes, forcing thousands to flee and temporarily trapping children and counselors at a California campground.
Here's a look at the wildfires blackening the West.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
A pair of wildfires egged on by record-breaking heat in Southern California quickly spread, threatening hundreds of homes and forcing evacuations at a popular lakeside campground and a summer camp.
The fire that started early Saturday afternoon in Santa Barbara County had spread to both sides of Highway 154 and was completely out of control, county fire Capt. Dave Zaniboni said. About 90 children and 50 counselors were stuck at the Circle V Ranch and had to take shelter until they could be safely evacuated.
High temps and dry gusts tripled the size of another Santa Barbara wildfire to nearly 30 square miles (about 77 square kilometers) over eight hours and forced evacuations of about 200 homes in a rural area east of Santa Maria, fire spokesman Kirk Sturm said.
In the middle of the afternoon, Santa Barbara officials sent out alerts to residents and campers near Cachuma Lake to evacuate as the fire started near Whittier Camp, Zaniboni said.
The lake, which was nearly bone dry last summer after the severe drought, is popular for camping, boating and fishing. Residents were also ordered to leave cabins in the Los Padres National Forest.
The fire burned at least 4.7 square miles (12 square kilometers), including a portion of the Cachuma Lake campground, and was 10 percent contained.
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Northern California, a Butte County wildfire swept through grassy foothills and destroyed 10 structures, including homes, and led to several minor injuries.
Burned-out pickup trucks were left in ashes, surrounded by charred, leafless trees. The metal frame of a mobile home and a vintage stove were left standing in scorched debris at one site.
The blaze about 60 miles north of Sacramento grew rapidly to more than 7 square miles (11 square kilometers) and was 20 percent contained, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
The area burning was about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of Oroville, where spillways in the nation's tallest dam began crumbling from heavy rains this winter and led to temporary evacuation orders for 200,000 residents downstream. On Saturday, authorities issued an evacuation for about 250 homes threatened by the fire.
After five years of severe drought, California got a big break with record rainfall and snowpack in parts of the state this year that has delayed the start of fire season in some places, but has also led to explosive vegetation growth that could fuel future fires.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Firefighters were contending with nearly 200 wildfires burning in British Columbia that had destroyed dozens of buildings, including several homes and two airport hangars. The three biggest fires, which ranged in size from 5 to 8 square miles (14 to 20 square kilometers), had forced thousands of people to flee.
The province has been sending as many firefighters as it can to contain the flames -- more than 1,000 were battling the fires, backed by hundreds of support staff.
Cliff Chapman, the deputy manager at the Kamloops Fire Centre, suggested Saturday was a day he'd never forget.
"I've been in this business for 17 years, from crew all the way up to where I am now, and I haven't experienced a day like we experienced yesterday," he said.
ELSEWHERE IN THE WEST
In Colorado, residents of nearly 500 homes outside the ski town of Breckenridge were allowed to return home Friday night. On Saturday, authorities lifted an evacuation order in Landusky, Montana, in the Little Rocky Mountains south of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation.
A grass fire in northwestern Colorado had burned 18 square miles (47 square kilometers) and was spreading in several directions at once because of wind patterns from passing thunderstorms, fire spokesman Chris Barth said.
A wildfire in southern Wyoming grew to 3 square miles (8 square kilometers). An unknown number of cabins remained under evacuation orders.
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jstan
climber
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The blaze about 60 miles north of Sacramento grew rapidly to more than 7 square miles (11 square kilometers)
Help me out here. A kilometer = about .621 miles. So the ratio of an area should be the square of this= .386
That means 1 sq mi=2.59 sq Km.
7 and 11 don't work. Should be 7x2.59=18.13 sq km.
Santa Barbara had an appreciable rain last night. A friend lives on Farren Rd and faced mandatory evacuation yesterday. The fire was moving at 2 mph so I don't know how one could be sure of not being trapped on Farren road. Serious spotting.
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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These are photo's taken yesterday from freelance photographer ~ Josh Edelson.
Wallfire , In Oroville Ca. .....25% contained.
Today a fire strike team from Tahoe city was parked across the street from my place in Bidwell park.. Four firefighters had just got off a 24 hour shift and were seeking shade from the sun.. About 1000 firefighters are stationed at the fairgrounds which doesn't have many shade trees. I talked with them a bit and invited them to rest in my back yard and swim in the pool.....Happy they took me up on it. Thank You guys...
Edit: Mighty Hiker ..I just wanted a picture of them and they took one with me..)-;
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Captain...or Skully
climber
Boise, ID
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Jul 17, 2017 - 02:21pm PT
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Statisically speaking, they haven't got a chance.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 18, 2017 - 07:51am PT
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JB, it seems to me that Ottawa has long deemed BC's fires its own business. Am I somewhat correct? Are there still only 1000 people fighting the fires?
I'm still pissed off that they did nothing to stop the Edwards' 'Crusoe of Lonesome Lake' homestead from being burned out.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Outside the Asylum
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Jul 18, 2017 - 01:31pm PT
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Reilly, firefighting in Canada is largely a provincial responsibility, as most land in a province is at least nominally owned and managed by the province. IIRC, about 3,000 people are directly fighting the fires, with about 1/3 from out of province. And, of course, enormous infrastructure and support. The federal government is providing substantial backing. About 47,000 citizens have been evacuated, although a few have been permitted to return home.
The changeover in our provincial government today won't make a difference - this is a bipartisan thing, while the emergency is being dealt with.
Given the longer term weather forecasts, the forest fire closures may if anything grow as the summer goes on. It wouldn't be a surprise if places like the Bugaboos were closed. Climbers were lucky with the widespread closures in 2003, as although everything was closed, the Access Society (CASBC) and others were able to arrange for climbers to continue climbing at Stawamus Chief Provincial Park, as long as we provided foot patrols of parking areas and trails. "Patrol a Crag." (A few times, they had to forcibly stop xuckwits from smoking.) Whether that might happen again if there are closures this year remains to be seen. Even in 2003, most areas were closed.
It sounds like the fire near Mariposa is causing huge problems also.
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