Fire

On Mon, 27 Jun 2016 18:13:29 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

We have a 75 acre fire burning about 4 miles South of us. Power has
been out all afternoon with temp up at 109ºF/42.8ºC. Fortunately we
have power back on now.

Two helicopters have been flying over my house making the circuit
between the lake and the fire since about 1 PM. CalFire has been flying
three fire attack tankers out of Paso Robles airport.
https://db.tt/Zf2Jmaf9
https://db.tt/pQO6FJAc

This is on our only road into town and CHP has it closed, so we are
sitting here waiting to see when we can get back to normal.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/FrasierFire.jpg


Kind of related

http://ktla.com/2015/06/25/illegal-4...orest-service/

On 2016-06-28 23:42:30 +0000, charles said:

On Mon, 27 Jun 2016 18:13:29 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

We have a 75 acre fire burning about 4 miles South of us. Power has
been out all afternoon with temp up at 109ºF/42.8ºC. Fortunately we
have power back on now.

Two helicopters have been flying over my house making the circuit
between the lake and the fire since about 1 PM. CalFire has been flying
three fire attack tankers out of Paso Robles airport.
https://db.tt/Zf2Jmaf9
https://db.tt/pQO6FJAc

This is on our only road into town and CHP has it closed, so we are
sitting here waiting to see when we can get back to normal.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/FrasierFire.jpg


Kind of related

http://ktla.com/2015/06/25/illegal-4...orest-service/

Any

drone interfering with fire fighting air attack operations should be
subject to a "shoot down on sight" order.

--
Regards,

Savageduck

On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 16:52:26 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2016-06-28 23:42:30 +0000, charles said:

On Mon, 27 Jun 2016 18:13:29 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

We have a 75 acre fire burning about 4 miles South of us. Power has
been out all afternoon with temp up at 109ºF/42.8ºC. Fortunately we
have power back on now.

Two helicopters have been flying over my house making the circuit
between the lake and the fire since about 1 PM. CalFire has been flying
three fire attack tankers out of Paso Robles airport.
https://db.tt/Zf2Jmaf9
https://db.tt/pQO6FJAc

This is on our only road into town and CHP has it closed, so we are
sitting here waiting to see when we can get back to normal.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/FrasierFire.jpg


Kind of related

http://ktla.com/2015/06/25/illegal-4...orest-service/

Any

drone interfering with fire fighting air attack operations should be
subject to a "shoot down on sight" order.


with retrofire to the operator.

On 2016-06-29 00:29:49 +0000, "J. Clarke" said:

In article 2016062816522611272-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom,
says...

On 2016-06-28 23:42:30 +0000, charles said:

On Mon, 27 Jun 2016 18:13:29 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

We have a 75 acre fire burning about 4 miles South of us. Power has
been out all afternoon with temp up at 109ºF/42.8ºC. Fortunately we
have power back on now.

Two helicopters have been flying over my house making the circuit
between the lake and the fire since about 1 PM. CalFire has been flying
three fire attack tankers out of Paso Robles airport.
https://db.tt/Zf2Jmaf9
https://db.tt/pQO6FJAc

This is on our only road into town and CHP has it closed, so we are
sitting here waiting to see when we can get back to normal.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/FrasierFire.jpg


Kind of related

http://ktla.com/2015/06/25/illegal-4...orest-service/

Any

drone

interfering with fire fighting air attack operations should be
subject to a "shoot down on sight" order.

Dunno if they still do but they used to use A-26s for that kind of work.
Put the guns back on 'em and let 'em have at it.

The A-26s are long retired, but CalFire has 16 OV-10As which could do
that job. They are currently used for aerial command and control along
with 25 AH-1Fs armed with IR, thermal imagers, and low light sensors
for tactical air group supervision.

For actual fire attack fixed wing CalFire has 8 ex-USN P3 Orions, 8 P2V
Neptunes, 26 S-2E/Gs 23 of which have been converted to S-2T by
retrofitting with turbopro engines (5 of these were working our fire, 3
from Paso Robles 1 from Hollister, and 1 from Porterville), DC-6 & DC-7
tankers. Then there are contracts which bring leased CL-215/Bombardier
415 "Superscoopers", A 747 tanker from Evergreen Services, several
DC-10 tankers, and the only flying Martin Mars.

In the rotary wing attack role there are 8 S-64E "Skycranes" on
contract from Helicopter Transport Services. Several BV-107 "Vertol",
Boeing 234 "Chinook", Kaman "K-Max", Bell 212s, 12 modified UH-1H
"Super Hueys", several Bell 205 A++'s, Bell 412's, Bell 407, Bell 206B
"JetRangers", Bell 206L-III "LongRangers", Eurocopter AS350 "AStars",
MD 500D, Aerospatiale SA 315B "Lama", and Alouette 316Bs

Then from the California Air National Guard there are several Modular
Airborne FireFighting System (MAFFS) converted C-130's, UH-60
"Blackhawks", CH-46 "Sea Knights", CH-47 "Chinooks", and CH53E "Super
Stallions".

So for fighting fires California has quite a substantial airforce available.

--
Regards,

Savageduck

On 6/28/2016 9:26 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On 2016-06-29 00:29:49 +0000, "J. Clarke" said:

In article 2016062816522611272-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom,
says...

On 2016-06-28 23:42:30 +0000, charles said:

On Mon, 27 Jun 2016 18:13:29 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

We have a 75 acre fire burning about 4 miles South of us. Power has
been out all afternoon with temp up at 109ºF/42.8ºC. Fortunately we
have power back on now.

Two helicopters have been flying over my house making the circuit
between the lake and the fire since about 1 PM. CalFire has been
flying
three fire attack tankers out of Paso Robles airport.
https://db.tt/Zf2Jmaf9
https://db.tt/pQO6FJAc

This is on our only road into town and CHP has it closed, so we are
sitting here waiting to see when we can get back to normal.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/FrasierFire.jpg



Kind of related

http://ktla.com/2015/06/25/illegal-4...orest-service/


Any

drone

interfering with fire fighting air attack operations should be
subject to a "shoot down on sight" order.

Dunno if they still do but they used to use A-26s for that kind of work.
Put the guns back on 'em and let 'em have at it.

The A-26s are long retired, but CalFire has 16 OV-10As which could do
that job. They are currently used for aerial command and control along
with 25 AH-1Fs armed with IR, thermal imagers, and low light sensors for
tactical air group supervision.

For actual fire attack fixed wing CalFire has 8 ex-USN P3 Orions, 8 P2V
Neptunes, 26 S-2E/Gs 23 of which have been converted to S-2T by
retrofitting with turbopro engines (5 of these were working our fire, 3
from Paso Robles 1 from Hollister, and 1 from Porterville), DC-6 & DC-7
tankers. Then there are contracts which bring leased CL-215/Bombardier
415 "Superscoopers", A 747 tanker from Evergreen Services, several DC-10
tankers, and the only flying Martin Mars.

In the rotary wing attack role there are 8 S-64E "Skycranes" on contract
from Helicopter Transport Services. Several BV-107 "Vertol", Boeing 234
"Chinook", Kaman "K-Max", Bell 212s, 12 modified UH-1H "Super Hueys",
several Bell 205 A++'s, Bell 412's, Bell 407, Bell 206B "JetRangers",
Bell 206L-III "LongRangers", Eurocopter AS350 "AStars", MD 500D,
Aerospatiale SA 315B "Lama", and Alouette 316Bs

Then from the California Air National Guard there are several Modular
Airborne FireFighting System (MAFFS) converted C-130's, UH-60
"Blackhawks", CH-46 "Sea Knights", CH-47 "Chinooks", and CH53E "Super
Stallions".

So for fighting fires California has quite a substantial airforce
available.


Sadly they need it.

--
PeterN

In article 2016062718132925228-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom, Savageduck wrote:

We have a 75 acre fire burning about 4 miles South of us. Power has
been out all afternoon with temp up at 109ºF/42.8ºC. Fortunately
we have power back on now.

Two helicopters have been flying over my house making the circuit
between the lake and the fire since about 1 PM. CalFire has been
flying three fire attack tankers out of Paso Robles airport.
https://db.tt/Zf2Jmaf9 https://db.tt/pQO6FJAc

This is on our only road into town and CHP has it closed, so we are
sitting here waiting to see when we can get back to normal.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/FrasierFire.jpg

That sucks, hope it gets sorted out.

We had something similar close to my hometown last year, with the largest
forest fire in Sweden for a long time. We don't have that many forest fires at
all, really, so we were quite unprepared and had to wait for water bombers to
fly out from Italy to help us out. No casualties though, but millions lost in
property, a lot of it uninsured.

--
Sandman

On 29 Jun 2016 06:25:29 GMT, Sandman wrote:

In article 2016062718132925228-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom, Savageduck wrote:

We have a 75 acre fire burning about 4 miles South of us. Power has
been out all afternoon with temp up at 109ºF/42.8ºC. Fortunately
we have power back on now.

Two helicopters have been flying over my house making the circuit
between the lake and the fire since about 1 PM. CalFire has been
flying three fire attack tankers out of Paso Robles airport.
https://db.tt/Zf2Jmaf9 https://db.tt/pQO6FJAc

This is on our only road into town and CHP has it closed, so we are
sitting here waiting to see when we can get back to normal.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/FrasierFire.jpg

That sucks, hope it gets sorted out.

We had something similar close to my hometown last year, with the largest
forest fire in Sweden for a long time. We don't have that many forest fires at
all, really, so we were quite unprepared and had to wait for water bombers to
fly out from Italy to help us out. No casualties though, but millions lost in
property, a lot of it uninsured.

Fires? In Sweden? Does ice burn?

In article , Bill W wrote:

Savageduck:
We have a 75 acre fire burning about 4 miles South of us. Power
has been out all afternoon with temp up at 109ºF/42.8ºC.
Fortunately we have power back on now.

Two helicopters have been flying over my house making the
circuit between the lake and the fire since about 1 PM. CalFire
has been flying three fire attack tankers out of Paso Robles
airport. https://db.tt/Zf2Jmaf9https://db.tt/pQO6FJAc

This is on our only road into town and CHP has it closed, so we
are sitting here waiting to see when we can get back to normal.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/FrasierFire.jpg

Sandman:
That sucks, hope it gets sorted out.

We had something similar close to my hometown last year, with the
largest forest fire in Sweden for a long time. We don't have that
many forest fires at all, really, so we were quite unprepared and
had to wait for water bombers to fly out from Italy to help us
out. No casualties though, but millions lost in property, a lot of
it uninsured.

Fires? In Sweden? Does ice burn?

No, but the reindeers that walk our streets all year around burns just fine

Joking aside, I think the entire "Sweden is covered in snow all year around"
idea that many americans have is quite hilarious when Sweden in a good summer
is really hot at times

--
Sandman

On 30 Jun 2016 17:10:31 GMT, Sandman wrote:

In article , Bill W wrote:

Savageduck:
We have a 75 acre fire burning about 4 miles South of us. Power
has been out all afternoon with temp up at 109ºF/42.8ºC.
Fortunately we have power back on now.

Two helicopters have been flying over my house making the
circuit between the lake and the fire since about 1 PM. CalFire
has been flying three fire attack tankers out of Paso Robles
airport. https://db.tt/Zf2Jmaf9https://db.tt/pQO6FJAc

This is on our only road into town and CHP has it closed, so we
are sitting here waiting to see when we can get back to normal.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/FrasierFire.jpg

Sandman:
That sucks, hope it gets sorted out.

We had something similar close to my hometown last year, with the
largest forest fire in Sweden for a long time. We don't have that
many forest fires at all, really, so we were quite unprepared and
had to wait for water bombers to fly out from Italy to help us
out. No casualties though, but millions lost in property, a lot of
it uninsured.

Fires? In Sweden? Does ice burn?

No, but the reindeers that walk our streets all year around burns just fine

Joking aside, I think the entire "Sweden is covered in snow all year around"
idea that many americans have is quite hilarious when Sweden in a good summer
is really hot at times

Sweden is never hot. The women are, but not the weather. It's a frozen
tundra over there. I've seen movies set in Sweden. Bunch of Volvos on
snow covered mountain roads..

On 2016-06-30 22:25, Bill W wrote:
On 30 Jun 2016 17:10:31 GMT, Sandman wrote:

In article , Bill W wrote:

Savageduck:
We have a 75 acre fire burning about 4 miles South of us. Power
has been out all afternoon with temp up at 109ºF/42.8ºC.
Fortunately we have power back on now.

Two helicopters have been flying over my house making the
circuit between the lake and the fire since about 1 PM. CalFire
has been flying three fire attack tankers out of Paso Robles
airport. https://db.tt/Zf2Jmaf9https://db.tt/pQO6FJAc

This is on our only road into town and CHP has it closed, so we
are sitting here waiting to see when we can get back to normal.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/FrasierFire.jpg

Sandman:
That sucks, hope it gets sorted out.

We had something similar close to my hometown last year, with the
largest forest fire in Sweden for a long time. We don't have that
many forest fires at all, really, so we were quite unprepared and
had to wait for water bombers to fly out from Italy to help us
out. No casualties though, but millions lost in property, a lot of
it uninsured.

Fires? In Sweden? Does ice burn?

No, but the reindeers that walk our streets all year around burns just fine

Joking aside, I think the entire "Sweden is covered in snow all year around"
idea that many americans have is quite hilarious when Sweden in a good summer
is really hot at times

Sweden is never hot. The women are, but not the weather. It's a frozen
tundra over there. I've seen movies set in Sweden. Bunch of Volvos on
snow covered mountain roads..

Sweden is a major timber country. They also make one of the best chain
saws.


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