Walt Longmire Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 Our Swan Lake fire is winding down. 103,000 acres but mostly contained now, although much of the containment is due to vegetation, swamps, and mountains. The southern boundary is the Sterling Hwy. Our local fire department that services a huge portion of the Kenai Peninsula has a complete burn ban on. Things are dryer than I have ever seen here since moving to this area in 1982. The State has lifted their burn ban so the tourorists can have a hot dog fire in the campgrounds, but our service area trumps them. Well last night I cruise out to the local campground and find tourists from Germany in a picnic area all by themselves, not another soul around, with a bonfire going so they can cook. I doubt they would have any cell phone coverage. Then I drive through the campground and the campers there have fires burning. I tell folks there is a burn ban on, and they tell me the campground host said fires are o.k. I have our FD on my phone contact list, so give them a call. They sent a truck out and flooded the fires and chewed ass on the campground host. Today I made a bunch of calls to the State. I'm not willing to let some clown from out of state, or out of the country burn me out so they can roast a ******* hot dog. If we got another fire going while still dealing with the Swan Lake mess, the response would be pitiful. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cougar_ml Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 It always pisses me off when people think that the burn bans don't apply to them. Special snowflake attitudes. I do feel a little sorry for the tourists, as they received bad information, but the campground host is definitely at fault for not verifying information before passing it on. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted July 23, 2019 Author Share Posted July 23, 2019 Our birch trees are starting to look like they would in the fall. Turning yellow and loosing leaves. It's usually the spruce forests that we worry about the most, but not this year. I drove out through an area that is normally mud bog swamps yesterday, and they are completely dried out. No water in the 2 creeks I drove over. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Czervik Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 Walt, ya party pooper. Going mall cop on tourists are we? ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted July 23, 2019 Author Share Posted July 23, 2019 Just now, Al Czervik said: Walt, ya party pooper. Going mall cop on tourists are we? ? They are in my territory. My rules. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Czervik Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dric902 Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 (edited) Fire pits, fire barrels, small campfires amateurs ruin things through ignorance you did right, good luck to you Edited July 23, 2019 by Dric902 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tadbart Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 Attaboy. We had some huge fires back in the 90s here in Central FL. I think it even delayed the Daytona 500. I'd still see idiots flicking cigarette butts out of their cars. Fire doesn't discriminate. Good job- you mighta saved hundreds of acres, homes, lives. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted July 24, 2019 Author Share Posted July 24, 2019 Our fires here tend to be in the thousands, or hundreds of thousand acres. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie-pete Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 10 hours ago, tadbart said: Attaboy. We had some huge fires back in the 90s here in Central FL. I think it even delayed the Daytona 500. I'd still see idiots flicking cigarette butts out of their cars. Fire doesn't discriminate. Good job- you mighta saved hundreds of acres, homes, lives. Yeah, the property I bought for my house had burned trees on it from those fires and the original “ road “ they used to build the house was an old firebreak that they cut back then. I told the builder to cut down every tree that could fall on my house in 20 years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tadbart Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 Good call, Bill. Building fire-smart is a great idea. But still, so many people think it's a great idea to be nestled in the trees, with shrubs under their eaves. Well, when those shrubs light, that fire is gonna go right in the soffit and into your attic. Next house out west will have a few feet of gravel all the way around the house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie-pete Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 (edited) 20 minutes ago, tadbart said: Good call, Bill. Building fire-smart is a great idea. But still, so many people think it's a great idea to be nestled in the trees, with shrubs under their eaves. Well, when those shrubs light, that fire is gonna go right in the soffit and into your attic. Next house out west will have a few feet of gravel all the way around the house. No soffits either. I was a fire fighter for 20 odd years. Edited July 24, 2019 by willie-pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazy R Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 Some ******* kids here with a campfire during a burn ban. Saw the whole thing happen. It was like a nuclear bomb, firefighters here had never seen one like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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