I am the Campground Host at Hope Valley and was evacuated on Monday afternoon. The fire plumes were incredible to watch daily. The previous fire I experienced was the Angoura in South Lake Tahoe. This is just as scary! Praying for the firefighters safety.
What should be on my wildfire preparedness checklist? The best way to protect your home from a wildfire is to remove or reduce the potential fuel within a 30-feet safety zone around your home. (If you live in a high-risk area, increase the safety zone to 100 feet): Remove vines from house walls. Move shrubs and other landscaping away from your house walls. Remove highly flammable and low-branched trees, such as evergreens, eucalyptus, and juniper. For remaining trees, remove limbs within 15 feet of the ground. Clear tree debris, such as fallen limbs, leaves, and pine needles and cones. Move stacked wood outside the safety zone. Pay special attention to clearing debris beneath decks and other overhangs. Consider removing wooden exterior structures, such as decks and patios, or replacing them with more fire resistant materials. Install non-combustible roofing and siding materials, such as metal, slate, or concrete. Clear debris from gutters. Install electrical lines underground, You may also want to collect some basic firefighting tools, including hoses, buckets, shovels, axes, rakes, and saws. However, do not attempt to fight large, fast-moving wildfires on your own.
@@myaatheist2744 If the increasing scale of wildfires I would suggest increasing the no brush zone to 150-200 feet of any building you want to protect. If brush is too close firefighters won’t even attempt to protect your house.
I love Lake Tahoe. I was just there a few weeks ago. I also noticed the forests surrounding Lake Tahoe are a mess. A lot of fuel has built up over the years. Aggressive firefighting for the last hundred years has caused the forest become overgrown and unhealthy. Until this problem is addressed these devastating forest fires will continue.
The U.S. Forest Service's Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit has a program of thinning, piling slash and burning. Not all the lands in the basin are National Forest lands. As you drive around the lake realize there is a lot of private land on the roadsides. Just because some land is undeveloped, does not mean it is National Forest land. I think the amount of National Forest land in the basin is about 75%. From the Spooner Summit Junction to Incline Village on the northeast portion of the basin is Nevada state land, all state parks. Their funding for forest/fire management is not adequate. The USFS has been buying up urban lots and they are doing a high amount of thinning/burning on those lots. Isolated parcels of public land in and around Las Vegas are sold for development and the money is used to fund land purchases in the Lake Tahoe Basin. The primary purpose of these purchases is to protect water quality and keep the visibility of the water in the lake at its present state or improve it. Private land uses are the greatest threat to the visibility in the lake. However, proven forest/land management practices, such as fuel reduction and prescribed burns. The USFS is doing as much thinning and burning as they get funded for. Should the pace and money to fund an increased level of thinning/burning? Yes, of course. Half of the money spent on firefighting and fire management in the U.S., including state and local funding, is spent in California. I think the pace should accelerate to 3-4 times the present pace, but that level is up to the presidential administration and the Congress, so all the wildland managers do with what they get. I could go on an on. I'm retired from a U.S. Forest Service career and have had an strong interest in fire ecology since high school. I was assigned to over 100 wildland fires during my career in recreation management and law enforcement. I was a member of a ranger district team and know what it takes to restore forests to their natural fire regime condition. It's time consuming and expensive, but far less expensive than a major fire is. There are a ton of dedicated, hard working people working on the problem, but the task is huge.
@@Mermaid4Ever I couldn't agree more. While travelling around the west I'm appalled by the condition of public and private land. I'm from Colorado (living here for $$) And I agree about the dedication of our wildland management people. They understand the problems and know how to mostly solve them but spending money on forest management isn't going to help officials get re-elected which is the number 1 concern. The Camp Fire in 2018. You could see that one coming. The area hadn't burned in years and the amount of ground fuel built up was heavy, leading right into the town (Paradise). Most of the people there had done little to no fire mitigation. Areas around Lake Tahoe, the same thing. Thick forest and brush, right up to people's homes, and many cases branches actually touching the homes. I told my wife, if a fire starts on the wrong day, wind & low humidity, there will be no stopping it. Living in the foothills of the Rockies, we had been evacuated a couple times for one to two weeks. It's traumatic, that's why I look at forests. We love the Lake Tahoe area, as do the people who live there. I don't think they realize forest management doesn't mean putting every fire out. In a healthy forest, mature trees often survive fire. That's hard to do with buildings scattered all over. The mitigation efforts being done is a drop in a bucket. The devastating fires are here to stay.
I don’t know about the USA but here in Australia we have green groups and EPA forcing us to put out fires as quick as possible. We aren’t allowed to let them just burn a lot of us FF would like to let them run a bit to clear out the scrub. The indigenous people’s did it and I think we should too.
I was assigned to the disaster assistance center in South Lake Tahoe following the Angora fire. I remember one person telling me he was in his wading pool with his dog and saw the smoke so he went to the top of hill. He barely made it out before the fire reached his home.
I lived on the south shore for a tad over 30 years grew up there i know the area quite well and remember the angora fire. That of course was before I got involved in fire however the area of Gardner mountain and angora ridge is largely a death trap as it is beautiful, yet, barely room for a pickup let alone multiple apparatus and its narrow and steep one side you see paradise valley the other side is fallen leaf... and its all thick n no safety zones, no alternate egress routes just the making of a very bad situation. the interesting aspects of fire is we have several bodies of water that can offer up thousands of gallons per minute with 45deg temps that can absorb a ton if btu’s. fire suppression is or should he about matching gpm to btu , 1250gpm at 40deg is capable of taking 11.8MBTU a 3000gal tanker about 28.1MBTU, a DC10 about 108MBTU if you can get them in, when we rely to heavily on one tool we get clumsy using others.....if we think about them. We need to rethink our strategies if we’re to handle whats coming. Ask yourself the question: why do structure fire departments use 5&6” hivol w 1.75 or larger attack lines for a single residence when wildland uses 1.5” hose or smaller yet the btu generation is a dozen fold?
@@WildfireEngineer It's all about supply and apparatus. Water has to be hauled to a wildland fire, there aren't fire hydrants spaced out in a forest. Look at the size of the water tender fleet on a wildland fire, the number of portable tanks set up and all the Type I and Type II helicopters with buckets or belly mounted tanks. There is no way to match gpm to btu output, there is a lot of land involved and no way to increase water supply. A fleet of Type I engines with master streams parked headlights to taillights could not stop fires burning like seen in this video. Besides, how to you keep those engine's tanks full?
@@Mermaid4Ever and therein lies our problem. As we leave the current thinking as is, id agree. However, I will agree to disagree on the part that there is no way to match gpm to btu. Sure we can, the only problems are delivery methods. I am 100% successful at providing water supply solutions when I am asked. It is not my job, however, to make YOU (meaning the team or division etc.) adopt it. If folks do not get me what I tell them its going to take, then it will keep burning and I don't lose sleep anymore over it. I dont argue much about it anymore, if you are convinced it cant be done and im wrong, then who am i to argue
@@sherrykendrick1765 I could see it when I was going to Red Bank on I-20. It was crazy how dense it was for smoke coming from fires over 2,000 miles away. For a minute I thought there was a brush fire nearby until I researched it. Stay safe out there.
We need to go back to the drawing board and re-think our forest management programs making FIRE CONTROL the top priority. Fire fighting tactics must also be on the table for change if needed too. No more "this is the way we always do it" attitudes. Especially from politicians who need to drastically increase funding and wages! If change means sacrificing part of the forest to clear cut massive fire breaks or whatever practices are possibly effective then so be it. The tree huggers need to accept what is best for the state
"Tree huggers" have been pushing for controlled burns for decades, Chris. Clear cutting is just an expensive way to drastically increase erosion. Forests are adapted to frequent, low-intensity burns, and that's what we should be doing. Preventing fires, ALL fires, is how things got as bad as they are now.
Try funding the removal of all the dead standing "match sticks" would be a good start. Convincing the head forests is another story. When is the Fish and Wildlife agency going to get involved. The silence is killing "their" habitat too.
You have the most intelligent comment here. I'm in Pennsylvania and we're just now seeing the haze from the wildfires over a month ago. More handouts Instead of responsible forest management.
This footage makes me fear for my brothers house. He got evacuated. Lives in woodfords pretty much. But more towards mark lee vile of course. Thanks for the great shots.
I have been in the path of three wildfires. Other than smoke damage from the first one, Thankfully our property was spared. That is the scariest looking fire I have ever seen. Why are there no air tankers on this? Where are the Airline jets that drop fire retardant? Where are the Helicopters? It’s a no air support because the smoke is so heavy? My heart goes out to all of you in that area. My prayers go out to all the firefighters. And please, if you’re Anywhere near this, get your stuff ready to evacuate now. That is just terrifying!
Amazing footage. Better than any media outlet. So very sad to see all these trees and properties going up in flames. Praying that they can stop this beast very soon.
To all out there that are praying people…. Pray hard for a big rain storm with no lightning!! Pray hard for all those men and women out there doing the best they can! Pray hard for all of there family’s and pray hard that they all come home safe!
Why not have more airport style firetrucks, that can supress fire without having to get the crew outside? Water cannons ect. It Seems they could be very effective and arguably safer to knock down some of the flame front along the roadways.
The biggest take away from this fire is that it started on July 4th and for the next 13 days the forest service choose to take no action while the fire was small citing safety concerns. On the 10th they stated the fire was only a quarter acre in size and posed no threat people or natural resources. I kid you not it looked like a dozen untrained people armed only with shovels could of put it out at that time but the FS choose to "watch". The managers on this one need to be held accountable for their neglegence.
A lot of fires in the area at that time though. Maybe if they had enough resources. Also it's stupid to think they can stop fire. At this point it's better it burns today so if doesn't tomorrow. Just burn all of Cali now so tomorrow it's already been burned. Putting the fire out just puts it off for another season. Nothing is safe.
@@solomongabert6776 They didn't have resources for it while it was small but then have them for when it is big? Yeah that is illogical and also not what they stated.
It takes time to mobilize resources for a wildland firefighting incident, and once civilians are evacuated from the area ,you have to pull backuntil you have additional resources. Human life must be risked ,if necessary, to protect human life. However, it is completely unacceptable to risk human life merely to protect property. That is the harsh reality of the matter!
Apparently you don't know anything about forest fires! Attempting to extinguish the fire directly would be pure madness! Containing the fire is the most they can hope for.
I saw a lot of pickups on the road but not the first bit of suppressive effort. I saw several places those dozers could be effective starting lines but no backup for them.
What should be on my wildfire preparedness checklist? The best way to protect your home from a wildfire is to remove or reduce the potential fuel within a 30-feet safety zone around your home. (If you live in a high-risk area, increase the safety zone to 100 feet): Remove vines from house walls. Move shrubs and other landscaping away from your house walls. Remove highly flammable and low-branched trees, such as evergreens, eucalyptus, and juniper. For remaining trees, remove limbs within 15 feet of the ground. Clear tree debris, such as fallen limbs, leaves, and pine needles and cones. Move stacked wood outside the safety zone. Pay special attention to clearing debris beneath decks and other overhangs. Consider removing wooden exterior structures, such as decks and patios, or replacing them with more fire resistant materials. Install non-combustible roofing and siding materials, such as metal, slate, or concrete. Clear debris from gutters. Install electrical lines underground, You may also want to collect some basic firefighting tools, including hoses, buckets, shovels, axes, rakes, and saws. However, do not attempt to fight large, fast-moving wildfires on your own.
what a great eye, this is some of the most beautiful footage of fire ive ever seen, somehow the person behind this camera transformed this horror into something gorgeous. well done
Because that’s not how you fight a forest fire. No need to fight the fire that is already burning along the road. It’s a waste of resources and won’t do anything. Everyone is driving by because you have to get In front of it. And get lines started well in advance and get to what can be protected at saved. What’s already burning is burnt. Why waste time on it when it’s not stopping anything?
This is such a shame as you can see from the footage this is some of the most beautiful places on Earth or should I say was. And a very huge thank you to Cal fire and all first responders. 😎👍
Look on the bright side, at least next year any many more years after their will be nothing that will burn. Keep in mind that some coniferous trees need the fires to release the seeds from the cones.
These fires have brought a bunch of smoke and soot to Colorado that has helped with rain. If only it would move westwards over the ocean and then back to California to help create much needed rain
See when u let politicians make regulations on how to manage the lands that goverments own this is the bs that comes out of those regulations and its not going to get any better till ppl stand up as a whole country and tell the politicians thats enough of the bs but society as a whole wont do that
Separate forest in squares by adding 500 yard buffer zone between one to another zone like it's done in European countries. Tbh it may be nature call for California strict restrictions on CO2 emissions
Evidently, the fire scene commander made a decision not to use the road as a firebreak. Perhaps he figured that even if the trees and brush were cut and dozed on the downwind side of the highway, the fire would jump it anyway. That's a strong wind blowing. I hope they can find a suitable place to make a stand, and stop the fire's advance. That's pretty country up there.
Is their any chance the Fire Departments could borrow some water trucks from anywhere? The Mining and Construction industry often use Caterpillar water trucks and other similar vehicles to spray water everywhere.
in california you only need 1 steady burn red light to be an "emergency vehicle" , they can use white, blue, amber depending on the department fleet mechanic.
Those are white LED strobes that tend to have a slight blueish look at times. You won't find any fire apparatus in the state of CA, unless an Fire Investigator, running blue lights.
Certain fires and their behavior prevent an offensive attack, like the Camp Fire that burned Paradise, CA to the ground. These mega fire's burn at about 40 acres plus a minute or two football fields per second. All you can do is try and save lives and then maybe some property, but evacuations and outrunning the fire is the first objective, just like when fighting structure fires there is an aggressive offensive attack and or pulling back to a strictly defensive attack when it's too dangerous. These fires create their own weather and I've seen some of these fires up close, I measured the wind speed at 95 miles an hour during the Silverado fire in Orange County. I watched it jump an 8 lane highway with a large grass medium between the two sides, it just jumped straight over in seconds. I actually got trapped in my vehicle for about 45 minutes, I couldn't go forward due to the fires, the winds were carrying clouds of pebbles and rocks at 90 miles an hour plus by my vehicle. The only reason the windows didn't break and I didn't die from smoke inhalation was a fellow photojournalist from NBC was able to block most of the wind and rocks with his large van, I was in my BMW i3 which is a small car. It was scary, and actually a few years back during a similar fire in the same spot on the 241 toll road, an OCFA hand crew had to deploy shelters, which means they got under their aluminum foil looking fire shelters. It's a last ditch effort or option when the fire is about to overrun your position. If fire fighters had tried to fight this fire here, most of their time would be spent running ahead and fire lines would be almost useless. The embers fly ahead with the wind and create spot fires and the fire just creates more fires and it's extremely unsafe to try and outrun the fire line, because the line is continuously jumping and running ahead, spotting, etc. I have a picture of 250ft plus tall flame that I captured during the Eldorado Fire earlier this year here in southern California. You have to experience these fires up close to appreciate the true scope, danger and rate of spread. I've been hit by phos-chek, which is the pinkish reddish flame retardant, I've been hit multiple times by that and water dropping helicopters, and I've literally had to run for my life on foot and in my vehicle.
The scoopers can still use Lake Tahoe, they only need a few feet of water to scoop from safely, the thing that will stop scoopers generally is lack of a strait enough waterway to be able to get a full load, takes about 12 seconds of good contact with the water for a super scooper, so a strait shot of good water approximately 1500-2000 feet long to get a full load
this happens every year n its never under control n instead of just keeping the road blocked n letting the fire trucks go to where there needed in the city they gotta sit n wait n wait for this to end yearly!!
So scary. It's been around 5 days since you posted this, are these wildfires still burning? I know for a few days we had hazy skies here in New England and the say it was from the smoke from these fires.
Fire is still burning Easterly into Nevada. Only 4% containment. Heat and high winds every afternoon. Aircraft is being used when ever conditions allow.
Ponds and lakes should be dug at strategic points inside forest area and in the periphery of forest area to for rain water storage to increase the humidity & lessen forest fires and to have ready water supply for the fire fighters.
They ran for their lives !!! Animals are smart, they can smell the fire coming from a long ways off !!!! They probably tried to find some water to hide in like a creek or a pond or small lake !!!! 💯🇺🇸🗽🦅⚔️
Someone has to be able to come up with a way to truck all the snow from all over the country out there and put into large reserve ponds/pools or something to be kept for these fires. And even the major rain storms.
This brought back some memories for me. Thirty years on the job. My eyes started stinging nose started running and soot on my legs. Stay safe!!
Be SAFE!
Thanks for the update, and to all emergency responders. Stay safe out there.
I am the Campground Host at Hope Valley and was evacuated on Monday afternoon. The fire plumes were incredible to watch daily. The previous fire I experienced was the Angoura in South Lake Tahoe. This is just as scary! Praying for the firefighters safety.
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props to the camera man for getting close to this massive fire for some amazing footage
What should be on my wildfire preparedness checklist?
The best way to protect your home from a wildfire is to remove or reduce the potential fuel within a 30-feet safety zone around your home. (If you live in a high-risk area, increase the safety zone to 100 feet):
Remove vines from house walls.
Move shrubs and other landscaping away from your house walls.
Remove highly flammable and low-branched trees, such as evergreens, eucalyptus, and juniper.
For remaining trees, remove limbs within 15 feet of the ground.
Clear tree debris, such as fallen limbs, leaves, and pine needles and cones.
Move stacked wood outside the safety zone.
Pay special attention to clearing debris beneath decks and other overhangs.
Consider removing wooden exterior structures, such as decks and patios, or replacing them with more fire resistant materials.
Install non-combustible roofing and siding materials, such as metal, slate, or concrete.
Clear debris from gutters.
Install electrical lines underground,
You may also want to collect some basic firefighting tools, including hoses, buckets, shovels, axes, rakes, and saws. However, do not attempt to fight large, fast-moving wildfires on your own.
It’s amazing shots but I’d call it stupid to be that close to the fire, not sure how he was able to get that close either
@@myaatheist2744 If the increasing scale of wildfires I would suggest increasing the no brush zone to 150-200 feet of any building you want to protect. If brush is too close firefighters won’t even attempt to protect your house.
There’s a thing called zoom on a camera
I love Lake Tahoe. I was just there a few weeks ago. I also noticed the forests surrounding Lake Tahoe are a mess. A lot of fuel has built up over the years. Aggressive firefighting for the last hundred years has caused the forest become overgrown and unhealthy. Until this problem is addressed these devastating forest fires will continue.
A century of fuel build up. It won’t bio -degrade fast enough. This is Nature’s way of removing the fuel.
Makes you wonder where all that tax payer money goes 🤔😑
The U.S. Forest Service's Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit has a program of thinning, piling slash and burning. Not all the lands in the basin are National Forest lands. As you drive around the lake realize there is a lot of private land on the roadsides. Just because some land is undeveloped, does not mean it is National Forest land. I think the amount of National Forest land in the basin is about 75%. From the Spooner Summit Junction to Incline Village on the northeast portion of the basin is Nevada state land, all state parks. Their funding for forest/fire management is not adequate. The USFS has been buying up urban lots and they are doing a high amount of thinning/burning on those lots. Isolated parcels of public land in and around Las Vegas are sold for development and the money is used to fund land purchases in the Lake Tahoe Basin. The primary purpose of these purchases is to protect water quality and keep the visibility of the water in the lake at its present state or improve it. Private land uses are the greatest threat to the visibility in the lake. However, proven forest/land management practices, such as fuel reduction and prescribed burns.
The USFS is doing as much thinning and burning as they get funded for. Should the pace and money to fund an increased level of thinning/burning? Yes, of course. Half of the money spent on firefighting and fire management in the U.S., including state and local funding, is spent in California. I think the pace should accelerate to 3-4 times the present pace, but that level is up to the presidential administration and the Congress, so all the wildland managers do with what they get.
I could go on an on. I'm retired from a U.S. Forest Service career and have had an strong interest in fire ecology since high school. I was assigned to over 100 wildland fires during my career in recreation management and law enforcement. I was a member of a ranger district team and know what it takes to restore forests to their natural fire regime condition. It's time consuming and expensive, but far less expensive than a major fire is. There are a ton of dedicated, hard working people working on the problem, but the task is huge.
@@Mermaid4Ever I couldn't agree more. While travelling around the west I'm appalled by the condition of public and private land.
I'm from Colorado (living here for $$) And I agree about the dedication of our wildland management people. They understand the problems and know how to mostly solve them but spending money on forest management isn't going to help officials get re-elected which is the number 1 concern.
The Camp Fire in 2018. You could see that one coming. The area hadn't burned in years and the amount of ground fuel built up was heavy, leading right into the town (Paradise). Most of the people there had done little to no fire mitigation. Areas around Lake Tahoe, the same thing. Thick forest and brush, right up to people's homes, and many cases branches actually touching the homes. I told my wife, if a fire starts on the wrong day, wind & low humidity, there will be no stopping it.
Living in the foothills of the Rockies, we had been evacuated a couple times for one to two weeks. It's traumatic, that's why I look at forests.
We love the Lake Tahoe area, as do the people who live there. I don't think they realize forest management doesn't mean putting every fire out. In a healthy forest, mature trees often survive fire. That's hard to do with buildings scattered all over. The mitigation efforts being done is a drop in a bucket. The devastating fires are here to stay.
I don’t know about the USA but here in Australia we have green groups and EPA forcing us to put out fires as quick as possible. We aren’t allowed to let them just burn a lot of us FF would like to let them run a bit to clear out the scrub. The indigenous people’s did it and I think we should too.
I was assigned to the disaster assistance center in South Lake Tahoe following the Angora fire. I remember one person telling me he was in his wading pool with his dog and saw the smoke so he went to the top of hill. He barely made it out before the fire reached his home.
I lived on the south shore for a tad over 30 years grew up there i know the area quite well and remember the angora fire. That of course was before I got involved in fire however the area of Gardner mountain and angora ridge is largely a death trap as it is beautiful, yet, barely room for a pickup let alone multiple apparatus and its narrow and steep one side you see paradise valley the other side is fallen leaf... and its all thick n no safety zones, no alternate egress routes just the making of a very bad situation. the interesting aspects of fire is we have several bodies of water that can offer up thousands of gallons per minute with 45deg temps that can absorb a ton if btu’s. fire suppression is or should he about matching gpm to btu , 1250gpm at 40deg is capable of taking 11.8MBTU a 3000gal tanker about 28.1MBTU, a DC10 about 108MBTU if you can get them in, when we rely to heavily on one tool we get clumsy using others.....if we think about them.
We need to rethink our strategies if we’re to handle whats coming.
Ask yourself the question: why do structure fire departments use 5&6” hivol w 1.75 or larger attack lines for a single residence when wildland uses 1.5” hose or smaller yet the btu generation is a dozen fold?
@@WildfireEngineer It's all about supply and apparatus. Water has to be hauled to a wildland fire, there aren't fire hydrants spaced out in a forest. Look at the size of the water tender fleet on a wildland fire, the number of portable tanks set up and all the Type I and Type II helicopters with buckets or belly mounted tanks. There is no way to match gpm to btu output, there is a lot of land involved and no way to increase water supply. A fleet of Type I engines with master streams parked headlights to taillights could not stop fires burning like seen in this video. Besides, how to you keep those engine's tanks full?
@@Mermaid4Ever and therein lies our problem. As we leave the current thinking as is, id agree. However, I will agree to disagree on the part that there is no way to match gpm to btu. Sure we can, the only problems are delivery methods. I am 100% successful at providing water supply solutions when I am asked. It is not my job, however, to make YOU (meaning the team or division etc.) adopt it. If folks do not get me what I tell them its going to take, then it will keep burning and I don't lose sleep anymore over it. I dont argue much about it anymore, if you are convinced it cant be done and im wrong, then who am i to argue
It’s crazy that the smoke from these fires have made it to Pennsylvania.
They have actually made it to South Carolina also.
And Illinois to
Maine
@@sherrykendrick1765 I could see it when I was going to Red Bank on I-20. It was crazy how dense it was for smoke coming from fires over 2,000 miles away. For a minute I thought there was a brush fire nearby until I researched it. Stay safe out there.
Wow!! Really neat video! It's amazing to see from inside the lines USFS forest management plan. Great detail
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We need to go back to the drawing board and re-think our forest management programs making FIRE CONTROL the top priority. Fire fighting tactics must also be on the table for change if needed too.
No more "this is the way we always do it" attitudes. Especially from politicians who need to drastically increase funding and wages!
If change means sacrificing part of the forest to clear cut massive fire breaks or whatever practices are possibly effective then so be it. The tree huggers need to accept what is best for the state
We also need to burn everything every winter. I am of the attitude that its better it burns now so it doesn't next year.
They say NO $. Yea cuz the Politics line their pockets with Cash $$$
"Tree huggers" have been pushing for controlled burns for decades, Chris. Clear cutting is just an expensive way to drastically increase erosion. Forests are adapted to frequent, low-intensity burns, and that's what we should be doing. Preventing fires, ALL fires, is how things got as bad as they are now.
Try funding the removal of all the dead standing "match sticks" would be a good start. Convincing the head forests is another story. When is the Fish and Wildlife agency going to get involved. The silence is killing "their" habitat too.
You have the most intelligent comment here. I'm in Pennsylvania and we're just now seeing the haze from the wildfires over a month ago. More handouts Instead of responsible forest management.
This is so scary. I pray they can get this out. Tahoe is one of my favorite places and a real treasure!
Thank you for sharing this video…. Be safe out there.
This footage makes me fear for my brothers house. He got evacuated. Lives in woodfords pretty much. But more towards mark lee vile of course. Thanks for the great shots.
Does he know if his house made the only reason I am asking is because I was assigned to the fire I was one of the firefighters trying to put it out
Dammnnn that’s big nice vid I thank all the firefighters police officers and paramedics there
@Ryder--What's nice is the camera guy not yelling, "OMG, OMG, Eff, Eff, OMG!!!!" for 20 minutes.
I have been in the path of three wildfires. Other than smoke damage from the first one, Thankfully our property was spared. That is the scariest looking fire I have ever seen. Why are there no air tankers on this? Where are the Airline jets that drop fire retardant? Where are the Helicopters? It’s a no air support because the smoke is so heavy? My heart goes out to all of you in that area. My prayers go out to all the firefighters. And please, if you’re Anywhere near this, get your stuff ready to evacuate now. That is just terrifying!
wow crazy. great catches and footage
Where at exactly are you here? Hwy 88, if so, how far say from Sorensons and Woodfords?
Quincy California is where our base camp is right now
Well all I have to say about the wildfires is,let’s just all pray 🙏 for the men and women all come home safely.!!!
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WOW Great stuff...a little to close for me..make sure you have your escape route planned. Stay Safe.
You don't know how. You don't have the survival skills.
Amazing footage. Better than any media outlet. So very sad to see all these trees and properties going up in flames.
Praying that they can stop this beast very soon.
To all out there that are praying people…. Pray hard for a big rain storm with no lightning!! Pray hard for all those men and women out there doing the best they can! Pray hard for all of there family’s and pray hard that they all come home safe!
Only mother nature at this point will put it out....
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We drove through here on July 4 weekend when it was just a lil baby fire I’m surprised they couldn’t get it out.
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Houston, I think we have a problem.
That’s crazy I was just by Lake Tahoe 3 weeks ago delivering a load and few days after I left an earthquake happend and now this? Just wow
Why not have more airport style firetrucks, that can supress fire without having to get the crew outside? Water cannons ect. It Seems they could be very effective and arguably safer to knock down some of the flame front along the roadways.
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The biggest take away from this fire is that it started on July 4th and for the next 13 days the forest service choose to take no action while the fire was small citing safety concerns. On the 10th they stated the fire was only a quarter acre in size and posed no threat people or natural resources. I kid you not it looked like a dozen untrained people armed only with shovels could of put it out at that time but the FS choose to "watch". The managers on this one need to be held accountable for their neglegence.
A lot of fires in the area at that time though. Maybe if they had enough resources. Also it's stupid to think they can stop fire. At this point it's better it burns today so if doesn't tomorrow. Just burn all of Cali now so tomorrow it's already been burned. Putting the fire out just puts it off for another season. Nothing is safe.
@@solomongabert6776 They didn't have resources for it while it was small but then have them for when it is big? Yeah that is illogical and also not what they stated.
It takes time to mobilize resources for a wildland firefighting incident, and once civilians are evacuated from the area ,you have to pull backuntil you have additional resources. Human life must be risked ,if necessary, to protect human life. However, it is completely unacceptable to risk human life merely to protect property. That is the harsh reality of the matter!
Great coverage. Thanks for posting.
Amazing footage and such clear footage. Well done. 👏🏻
Incredible footage.
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Awesome footage! Just hope no one has died from this fire.
So devastating but so beautiful at the same time….
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Looks like they are just letting it burn.
Apparently you don't know anything about forest fires! Attempting to extinguish the fire directly would be pure madness! Containing the fire is the most they can hope for.
I saw a lot of pickups on the road but not the first bit of suppressive effort. I saw several places those dozers could be effective starting lines but no backup for them.
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@@jennifersmith842 fine as frog hair.
@@robertnelson432 that’s good to know hun do you mind if we get to talk more off here
California side of Lake Tahoe: Literal hell on earth, fire everywhere.
Nevada side of Lake Tahoe: Perfectly fine
Lots of people driving around but not anyone fighting the fire with water great job
Because that’s not how you fight a wildfire.
The Smokey the Bear fire danger sign should read, "5 miles ahead". Or just "Yes".
Incredible footage. Great job.
What should be on my wildfire preparedness checklist?
The best way to protect your home from a wildfire is to remove or reduce the potential fuel within a 30-feet safety zone around your home. (If you live in a high-risk area, increase the safety zone to 100 feet):
Remove vines from house walls.
Move shrubs and other landscaping away from your house walls.
Remove highly flammable and low-branched trees, such as evergreens, eucalyptus, and juniper.
For remaining trees, remove limbs within 15 feet of the ground.
Clear tree debris, such as fallen limbs, leaves, and pine needles and cones.
Move stacked wood outside the safety zone.
Pay special attention to clearing debris beneath decks and other overhangs.
Consider removing wooden exterior structures, such as decks and patios, or replacing them with more fire resistant materials.
Install non-combustible roofing and siding materials, such as metal, slate, or concrete.
Clear debris from gutters.
Install electrical lines underground,
You may also want to collect some basic firefighting tools, including hoses, buckets, shovels, axes, rakes, and saws. However, do not attempt to fight large, fast-moving wildfires on your own.
what a great eye, this is some of the most beautiful footage of fire ive ever seen, somehow the person behind this camera transformed this horror into something gorgeous. well done
Great footage! Bummer to see everything burning.
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@@jennifersmith842 Doing pretty good! How are you doing?
@@Living_EDventures am doing good hun thanks do you mind if we get to talk and know each other more off here
God bless firefighters. Grieving memories of one of my favorite places, along with countless others.
EVERY BODY IS JUST DRIVING BY AND LOOKING AT THE FIRE, WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO TRY AND PUT THE FIRE OUT, THERE IS NO ONE FIGHTING THIS FIRE!
Because that’s not how you fight a forest fire. No need to fight the fire that is already burning along the road. It’s a waste of resources and won’t do anything. Everyone is driving by because you have to get In front of it. And get lines started well in advance and get to what can be protected at saved. What’s already burning is burnt. Why waste time on it when it’s not stopping anything?
At 6:08 that fire is burning so hot that tree in the middle of the screen is turned white with heat wow!
Great video. I have to say that I was just a bit concerned for your safety-perhaps a little too close.
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IRONIC that Smokey Bear sign--it's that toxic mythology that created the conditions for devastating fires.
This is such a shame as you can see from the footage this is some of the most beautiful places on Earth or should I say was. And a very huge thank you to Cal fire and all first responders. 😎👍
Wildfire like volcanic eruption. It 's huge
Great video. Love the no chatting. I’ll subscribe
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@@jennifersmith842 hello Jennifer.
@@montanamornings8526 hello hope you doing good hun do you mind if we get to talk more off here
@@jennifersmith842 I’m sorry. I don’t understand what your asking?
@@montanamornings8526 just asking if we could become friends off her
Mother nature says, you done
Tough country for dozers: 100’s of millons of btu’s/sec there
I guess they weren’t trying to hold it at 89 cause there was no one in sight
it jumped 89 yesterday
Thank God for the little bit of rain we got on Monday.
Imagine fighting a fire that is a size of a 5 story building
We can smell the smoke here in NH.
Awesome footage, hopefully they get it out soon
Praying these will be under control soon ! Thanks for sharing god bless !
Was it windy up there
So much Dry Fuel!
Look on the bright side, at least next year any many more years after their will be nothing that will burn. Keep in mind that some coniferous trees need the fires to release the seeds from the cones.
Great point about the seeds to still kinda sad
I want a shot of them fighting it It seems like they're just trying to get the best view
No. Just trying to stay at a safe distance.
the person filiming may not be a fireman
Fire fighters: what are we seeing
The fire:the boss your gonna fight get over here
This breaks my heart
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These fires have brought a bunch of smoke and soot to Colorado that has helped with rain. If only it would move westwards over the ocean and then back to California to help create much needed rain
smoke doesnt create rain
See when u let politicians make regulations on how to manage the lands that goverments own this is the bs that comes out of those regulations and its not going to get any better till ppl stand up as a whole country and tell the politicians thats enough of the bs but society as a whole wont do that
Separate forest in squares by adding 500 yard buffer zone between one to another zone like it's done in European countries. Tbh it may be nature call for California strict restrictions on CO2 emissions
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@@jennifersmith842 huh ?
Sad to see this going on. I have never in my whole living life seen so many wildfires and I have lived a long time.
I'm going into the lake . Exit emergency routes extremely limited.😐
Idk if same one but just seen on calfire fb is one at 188k acres 🤯 not even august yet
Evidently, the fire scene commander made a decision not to use the road as a firebreak.
Perhaps he figured that even if the trees and brush were cut and dozed on the downwind side of the
highway, the fire would jump it anyway. That's a strong wind blowing. I hope they can find a suitable place to make a stand, and stop the fire's advance. That's pretty country up there.
Is their any chance the Fire Departments could borrow some water trucks from anywhere? The Mining and Construction industry often use Caterpillar water trucks and other similar vehicles to spray water everywhere.
It’s not that easy.
Will this effect highway 50 in the next coming weeks?
You’re darn tootin. On a serious note more than likely not unless it can travel 40+ miles in a week. Anything can happen
@@GD-cs4nh I'm hoping it's well contained and put out soon as well as the other fires going on. 🙏
Fire dozer transport with blue and reds in California???
That's out of state dozer
I think the door says Truckee Meadows Fire, from Nevada.
@@ltstevecfd ok that makes sense if it's an out of state dozer in California
mutual aid from Nevada
Amazing footage.
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Hopefully your braveness will inspire alot more gratitude😔Looks like I'm gonna get a plastic xmas tree😔
why does that engine at 13:51 have a blue light in its traffic advisor? its a cali unit not neveda
in california you only need 1 steady burn red light to be an "emergency vehicle" , they can use white, blue, amber depending on the department fleet mechanic.
@@johngotti123 only leo is permitted to run blue in ca
Those are white LED strobes that tend to have a slight blueish look at times. You won't find any fire apparatus in the state of CA, unless an Fire Investigator, running blue lights.
Maybe it is the camera position but did anyone actually fight this fire? Lots of lights and driving but no water or working dozers.
What is worst fire district or Hurricane country?
Great video dude!
Just wondering, I did not see, any firemen doing anything but driving around, how about putting out the fire? Thanks from,St. Paul Minnesota.
Certain fires and their behavior prevent an offensive attack, like the Camp Fire that burned Paradise, CA to the ground. These mega fire's burn at about 40 acres plus a minute or two football fields per second. All you can do is try and save lives and then maybe some property, but evacuations and outrunning the fire is the first objective, just like when fighting structure fires there is an aggressive offensive attack and or pulling back to a strictly defensive attack when it's too dangerous. These fires create their own weather and I've seen some of these fires up close, I measured the wind speed at 95 miles an hour during the Silverado fire in Orange County. I watched it jump an 8 lane highway with a large grass medium between the two sides, it just jumped straight over in seconds. I actually got trapped in my vehicle for about 45 minutes, I couldn't go forward due to the fires, the winds were carrying clouds of pebbles and rocks at 90 miles an hour plus by my vehicle. The only reason the windows didn't break and I didn't die from smoke inhalation was a fellow photojournalist from NBC was able to block most of the wind and rocks with his large van, I was in my BMW i3 which is a small car. It was scary, and actually a few years back during a similar fire in the same spot on the 241 toll road, an OCFA hand crew had to deploy shelters, which means they got under their aluminum foil looking fire shelters. It's a last ditch effort or option when the fire is about to overrun your position. If fire fighters had tried to fight this fire here, most of their time would be spent running ahead and fire lines would be almost useless. The embers fly ahead with the wind and create spot fires and the fire just creates more fires and it's extremely unsafe to try and outrun the fire line, because the line is continuously jumping and running ahead, spotting, etc. I have a picture of 250ft plus tall flame that I captured during the Eldorado Fire earlier this year here in southern California. You have to experience these fires up close to appreciate the true scope, danger and rate of spread. I've been hit by phos-chek, which is the pinkish reddish flame retardant, I've been hit multiple times by that and water dropping helicopters, and I've literally had to run for my life on foot and in my vehicle.
Patrick Smith Very nice reply, not much humans are able too do. Nature does it’s thing. It will burn out soon. Thanks from.St. Paul Minnesota.
👦👍Awesome video keep up with the great work and be safe out there.
Inquiry.
Can scoop jets work on the lower lake levels or is it to dangerous or shallow to make them ineffective?
The scoopers can still use Lake Tahoe, they only need a few feet of water to scoop from safely, the thing that will stop scoopers generally is lack of a strait enough waterway to be able to get a full load, takes about 12 seconds of good contact with the water for a super scooper, so a strait shot of good water approximately 1500-2000 feet long to get a full load
Sure am glad we climbed Emigrant Wall at Silver Lake in May!
Wouldn't even be able to breathe up there now.
Badass climbing, by the way.
Hope all stay safe in this
When you see a smoke like that you know a lot of people are gonna have a very very bad day !!!
This has got to be the SADDEST THING IVE SEEN ALL WEEK.STAY SAFE OUT THERE ALL YOU RESPONDER'S ❤
What kind of camera are you using? Great footage.
this happens every year n its never under control n instead of just keeping the road blocked n letting the fire trucks go to where there needed in the city they gotta sit n wait n wait for this to end yearly!!
Is the fire out please if you can let me know thank you
This is Nature’s forest management.
@@TheSignatureK true…..
Breaks my heart
So scary. It's been around 5 days since you posted this, are these wildfires still burning? I know for a few days we had hazy skies here in New England and the say it was from the smoke from these fires.
Fire is still burning Easterly into Nevada. Only 4% containment. Heat and high winds every afternoon. Aircraft is being used when ever conditions allow.
Ponds and lakes should be dug at strategic points inside forest area and in the periphery of forest area to for rain water storage to increase the humidity & lessen forest fires and to have ready water supply for the fire fighters.
I'm wondering what's happening to all the animals in the location. OMG 😲😱
They run away but some animals die
They ran for their lives !!! Animals are smart, they can smell the fire coming from a long ways off !!!! They probably tried to find some water to hide in like a creek or a pond or small lake !!!! 💯🇺🇸🗽🦅⚔️
So where are all the Helicopters?? Or Drop planes??
So about those non emissions dirty trucks bringing in dirty diesel equipment?
Someone has to be able to come up with a way to truck all the snow from all over the country out there and put into large reserve ponds/pools or something to be kept for these fires. And even the major rain storms.
Sad to seen to see this fire I hope it is put out soon my cousin works for cal fire I please stay and to all the responders please stay safe
3:55 is that a CAT engine or nahh ? Or is that a Cummins ?
Stay safe!
IT'S NOW 7/19/21
I ASSUME IT'S STILL GOING ????????????????????????????
How can someone go and help these guys out? Anyone can go or not?
how far is this from the town of lake tahoe?