For the Canadians here

[Mtsoxfan]

We've been at a level 4 out of 6 for 3 days now. Impressive sunset color in the sun, other than that, even healthy lungs are feeling it. I remember last year some on here were saying that farmers with D6(?) dozers were turned away when trying to help cut lines. Is that the case this year?
We are 45 minutes to Canadian border. The smoke has moved south of here today. Wife at Killington for conference and says it pretty bad there. I can usually see 10+ miles on a morning like this. Guessing today is about 2. I can't see the Lowell windmills, or pretty much anything further out.

 

[Paystar]

You know what gets me? I live in a rural community on Lake Superior and even with all the fires and warnings and burning bans.....every single idiot around here feels the need to fire off thousands of dollars of fireworks every single night.
Brain dead bleep bleep bleep bleeps.

 

[not2old]

You know what gets me? I live in a rural community on Lake Superior and even with all the fires and warnings and burning bans.....every single idiot around here feels the need to fire off thousands of dollars of fireworks every single night.
Brain dead bleep bleep bleep bleeps.

You do not have a monopoly on those people. We have them too, even shortly after a wildfire here.

 

[mrmikey]

Same here in NS. We're in the midst of a drought, voluntary water use restrictions, no woods travel, open fires of any kind. We have people posting 'hacks' so they can have an open fire, using wood pellets is not an open fire, metal bbq's with wood is not an open fire etc. Only hope is they don't start a fire, if they do hopefully it's their stuff and no one elses that gets torched.
I'm even nervous about mowing the scraggly looking bits of grass that managed to get water somewhere on my lawn.

 

[Paystar]

Ya when it gets hot and dry like it is here right now, I don't even go on atv rides in the forest. I don't wanna be the guy responsible.
Same at home, I clean any grass, leaves or chaff out of my tractors so there is nothing in them that can light up.

 

[Paystar]

Especially when you see the videos posted by those Vallard workers that got trapped taking refuge in a sea can as a wild fire passed over them and seeing the destruction around them when they got out. That's horrifying!! Imagine being in a sea can that is getting the paint burnt off it.

 

[Rustyiron]

^^^Wow!

 

[pmsmechanic]

Especially when you see the videos posted by those Vallard workers that got trapped taking refuge in a sea can as a wild fire passed over them and seeing the destruction around them when they got out. That's horrifying!! Imagine being in a sea can that is getting the paint burnt off it.

They lived. Think of the stories they can tell their grandchildren.

 

[Paystar]

It really brings it into perspective. The one video I saw they were urging their foreman to evacuate and he kept saying no we're alright. And in a matter of an hour or so they were engulfed. Scary stuff.

 

[Torvy]

Part of the problem with the fires is that certain areas do not subscribe to the proper management of the forests. Those huge fires didn't happen as often in nature because smaller fires kept the fuel under control a bit. Forested areas need controlled burns and/or fire breaks to prevent some of this.

Costs are up because people build expensive things next to tinderboxes. My forest is about to be thinned (within the next week). It should help the remaining trees be healthier and make management easier.

Good luck up there.