Good Morning!!!! 60F @ 7:00AM. Sunny. High 92F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
The Park Fire has burned more that 353,000 as of seven o'clock last night. All the active burning is scattered around the edges making hundreds of miles of perimeter to fight and control. Yesterday was the worst day for smoke so far, which up until then had been absent. Airquality is in the 50s right now, mainly due to the low wind speeds and easterly and southeasterly direction.
Resources assigned -
3,722 Personnel, 337 Engines, 150 Dozers, 102 Water Tenders, 81 Crews, 16 Helicopters & 46 Other
They haven't published this morning's aircraft request yet, but the had a dozen tanker planes in the air yesterday, including two Very Large Air Tankers.
A couple of neighbors came down yesterday and picked up the rest of the Kubota shipping pallets I'd collected. The stack was about nine feet high, ten feet long, and five feet wide. Les said his forklift could get it off in one trip; my tractor took three because of the uneven ground where they were stacked.
I got 'em to look at the fire truck while they were here. Mike muscled open the hood and found a blown fuse, which helps to explain why we couldn't hear the fuel pump running. It was a real old glass fuse, so I'll swing by the FLAPS while I'm in town and get a box of replacements. And also some spray grease for the hood release and hinges. Mike said I should replace the rotor, cap, and points, but I really don't want to open that Pandora's box. But he's willing to help if it turns to that.
I also got a pallet of firewood loaded into the van without banging into anything. Just one because I want to see how much work it'll be unloading on the other end with just a wheelbarrow.
Toward the end of yesterday the leak at the water tank got bad enough I had to close the valve on the tank and turn off the jet pump. So at this point the house is without water pressure. I'll turn everything back on for long enough to make breakfast, but shut it back down again when I head off to town and the plumbing department at HD. Neighbor will lend me the wrenches to open the big unions, and I'm gonna try to simplify the plumber's nightmare of what's on there now. My record for hardware store visits in a day for a plumbing job is seven, and I hope I don't get anywhere close to that on this one.
Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend!
