STRICTLY Relative to "WILDFIRE". Are you ready, are your "PRE-prepared". Is there one more thing you could do...???

[SLADE]

Years ago it took a bunch of fellas to cut trees now it takes a feller buncher.
I plan to run like a scared little chicken.

 

[Mountain trapper]

I've seen people doing "water haul" in the county that use a couple of totes on utility or car trailers. Add a gas pump and it could be very handy on acerage I'd think.

That would certainly work. The design that I'm coming up with is something that I want to try and sell. I'd make several sizes that could be towed with an ATV or with a tractor.

 

[Sourdough]

Years ago it took a bunch of fellas to cut trees now it takes a feller buncher.
I plan to run like a scared little chicken.

 

[joel]

Thing is, these wind driven CA fires don't stop for roads. Embers start spot fires up to a half mile ahead, and entire areas errupt almost simutaneously. The only things that stop them are the ocean, wind dying down, or rain. But firebreaks can really help contain "normal" fires.

Yes, Joe Rogan said years ago when he was on "Fear Factor" a fireman told him that every fire man knew that a wild fire with the right wind going toward the city of L.A. would not stop till it hit the beach.
My fires are not in large trees & so far, no great big winds.

 

[Robert Stewart]

Been fairly hot lately so haven't been on the site as much finally getting a reprieve until at least this weekend yesterday late arvo (sunday) despite it being still fairly warm outside replaced the fittings on both front and back yard garden taps in addition to putting a new fitting on backyard hose as well as put 2 new nozzles too so now both are fully fitted and ready for initial defense should a fire situation go south

 

[Mountain trapper]

Last year I made a deal with a forest service contractor to thin trees and clear brush on 55 acres around the house this spring. It'd be nice to do an additional 20 acres every year after that.

 

[poltiregist]

What many are missing - I am a retired wildland forest fire fighter with thousands of fires that I have put out . We would often with two men , including self put out fires in a matter of a day that might or might not be over 100 acres . " We didn't use water " . We had for most of my career not even any special firefighting protection - nope just a pair of Walmart cotton britches and shirt . - Then the environmentalist and the wimpy decided we were not safe , but a bunch of suicidal lunatics wading into the fires , " they could actually have been right on that one " . I have seen the water truck boys wide eyed running from a fire in terror as we waded in .-- That is the problem in many areas today - They don't have the intestinal fortitude to face a raging fire , but want to stand back at the prescribed safe distance and squirt water . Nor do they even have any knowledge in fighting fire with a plowed fire lane and backfiring from the lane to create a fire sucking into it's own death . - I wish I could get me a firefighting contract putting out fires in California based on the acres that I could put out . I would leave that place a wealthy man or perhaps a crispy burnt man .

 

[SLADE]

When I was a fire boy. I think I was 16. i recall going into a raging house fire next to the country store and disconnecting 55 gallon drums of kero and rolling them away from he fire.
The house is gone but the store is still in use
We had no fire gear just the clothes on our back.