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I was out where the fire was today and it's amazing to see the fire-burned area surrounded by red-stained hillsides. It seems to very effectively stop the fire dead where they had dropped it. There certainly is a lot of the material spread around, but I believe it's mostly just clay and water so I don't think he'll be able to extract much phosphorus. I guess it's back to the mine Cody!
Tomoko's Enterprize Thank you for the tips. I'm born and raised Alaskan but I live in Washington State. We get VERY bad Forrest fires every year now it seems. Do you have any tips for defending against a fire? Actively fighting against one? Best tools? I'll keep this info safe with me for life! Also, I would love to get evolved in volunteer work.
9:35 “ehh, it’ll be alright...” *turns to enormous fireball that was once a tree* “That one won’t.” Lmao Hopefully everything went alright for you guys out there with minimal property damage.
Sorry you got a strike from my department. I'll talk to the boss about it! I'm happy nothing serious burned. We once set an entire dry field on fire by accident when we were kids! It was pretty hard to put it out. I was shovel trumping like you did all the way!
Honestly though, were I in his shoes, I would not want to use my connections to put people in harm's way to save a few extra hectares, especially when he seems to have it pretty much in hand.
Those that have never tried putting out a wildfire cannot understand how tiring it really is. The adrenaline rush is exhausting, bad air, heat, and the inner feeling of futility will bring the best man to his knees. Been there - done that. It ain't fun.
zalmaflash, my first fire was swinging a Pulaski for 36 hours with a 15 minute nap at 24 hours. Tiring doesn't describe it well enough. Working a fireline on a hill with no dozer support, 1 sawyer, trees bursting into flames on the fire line. Hop off the line to drink some water and have 80°F feel like freezing weather.
I was speaking of a personal fire on my place - several times. I'm sure that a pro in fire control crew is different. The panic factor is higher when you [I] was alone. I do highly regard the experience you have in fighting fires and thank you for that.
i can only imagine, a brush fire like that is one thing, sure it looked like hell to do that much, but going into an actual raging forest fire? man that must be something else.
No matter how horrible and terrifying those fires are, you have to admit, there's a certain beauty to them also. Edit: I really wish you had a headcam for these kinds of things
Hey Cody! Glad this fire stayed contained! I’m an Air Force Firefighter, and so I get trained on not only structural and aircraft fires, but also Wildland Firefighting. Since the risk of fire is so great in your area, you may consider buying a few tools to help you. That spade was semi-effective but you will have a MUCH easier time clearing out debris with stuff like a Pulaski Axe. I also recommend a flapper, which is just a stick with a rubber flap. It’s used to smother the fire like you tried to do with the spade. Lastly, make sure you have water!! Drink lots of water. It helps and will keep you hydrated which is one of the most important things. Drink water today for what you’ll need tomorrow. Oh and if you wear a face mask like the N95 respirator(think of what you might find for if you’re painting. The paper face mask looking thing), that will help. You mentioned CO and CO2 in this video, but really, CO is a concern for structural fires because what we build houses today with is different than what we used to build houses with. The smoke there is a different smoke than Wildland fires. You were likely coughing and having trouble breathing because of smoke inhalation, which can be very dangerous! Glad you stayed safe! :)
Slow down or you will break your shovel bud. I have fought fire professionally for most of my working life up here in BC Canada. You folks have fires similar to just south of me. Fast moving nastys with lots of acrid smoke. Nasty things for sure. Getting at them when it is cooler is always a bonus as long as you can do it safely. We often have our guys come down to help you folks out when we don't need them here as much. I found over the years that keep cotton masks wetted down to be the best. They have tried all kinds of dry ones that just don't work well. I kept one in a ziplock in every avail pocket for 40 + years and gave many out to the ones without.Go slow and steady and pay attention to yourself. Self preservation first bud. Keep watching yer 6 bud. You know the basics. Better it burn than you my friend.
Tomoko's Enterprize, my only experience is wildland firefighting in Alaska and California. We used bandanas. Keeping it wet was no problem, just stay hydrated.
Without it he will get nowhere and most likely his ass burnt.Wildfire is not to be messed with. I have seen far too many people with 3 and 4 degree burns. Want to try some ? That was a really dumb remark !
I grew up in wyoming. THis sort of fire is all too familiar to me. Its still amazing just how fast they can move. Just a wave of destruction. But at the same time, it's really small. No blazing inferno. Just a creeping line of fire. People often think it would be easy to put something like that out, but the problem is literally everything is seemingly eager to catch fire. The only good part about it is that its really easy to see coming, so no one panics. You can really take your time and get all your stuff together if you have to leave. Maybe have dinner first, heh. The worst fire I saw when i lived there was different though. it was caused when a train carrying coal derailed. They cancelled school for like two days due to the air quality.
Here in Naches Washington we usually have a large forest fire every year. It gets so bad for about a week that you are supposed to wear masks to go outside. We still have school though. They just don't let us go outside. You cannot see past 100 meters and can look directly at the sun because it looks more like the moon. We even saw Clements Mountain burning up above our school. Fire retardant was dropped and left red streaks for a while. Air quality scale was at 300+ and I drove to ellensburg just so I could go on runs.
@@quinnjones2886 We had some wildfires quite near my city 2-3 years ago and it was crazy, my city is already very polluted (we regularly bust through the annual PM10 exposure limit in early February...), but that week was insane. The particulate levels got to like 15 times the legal limit, at times it literally looked like there was fog in the city, but it was smoke. If I remember right they actually revoked the diesel engine limitations for a while since they weren't going to make any difference anyway and they figured it was better to let people stay in a car with an air filter rather than have them walk to take public transport while breathing that smoke.
the fire can be put off with water, but the hardest part is the fire can be spread through the soil and keep hot inside it and eventually bringing fire back thats why so hard the other points never mentioned
Top 5 Cody headlines that would not shock me The shed is exploding. The barn is melting. The yard is a radioactive slag heap. The slime is alive. The farm is on fire.
Not much you can do about a lightning fire. What gets me is when it's some idiot's camp fire that didn't get put out, or a tossed cigarette, or someone dragging steel chains behind a truck. Stay safe!
I'm a retired firefighter. Wow, I miss it. We were a suburban department in the mid-west and didn't do a lot of wildlands firefighting but we did do some and were well trained for it. Very hot, tiring work. Stay Safe.
SDD525 Most trees, while alive and green, once they are tall enough to have their branches a few feet off the ground become "fire resistant" to small ground fires. But really no, no plants I know of make good fire breaks. Anyone else know ?? Tomoko's Enterprize I'm more frightened of wild fires that domestic structural fires. But that's what we dealt with the most. Commercial/manufacturing plant fires would be the worst to me. You never know what they have hiding in some old 55 gallon drums in the back, under the stairs. And neither do they. Scary!!
WUI is always the most challenging environment. You want the fire to consume fuels, but you don't want those fuels to consume houses. Also, houses always have dangerous stuff like propane tanks and weak septic to worry about.
Reckec Just a short question :) Do you know who pays for these things in the case of Cody? Does he have to pay for all these airplane loads and firefighters because it was on his ground? Because that would be horrible
Hey Cody! I'm a huge fan. I'm also a firefighter. Let me tell you about fire ice. This material (that's also used in diapers) holds water like crazy. It is mixed in a whole engine tank or even a tiny extinguisher. when sprayed it will put out fires and prevent the spread. It wouldn't cost too much to get enough to cover ur whole ranch in it and it wouldn't be hard to do it for ur father if ur away. Non toxic and washed away with a garden hose. Check it out my man.
Mike S it’s a polymer, it’s found in a ton of things, it’s marked up and sold to kids as orbeez xP it’s also used in some planters as a water retention system
As a firefighter myself I know how intense brush fires can be, I hope the fire is all the way out, I would keep an eye on the area for a few days and be careful
In the UK, we use fire beaters - a flap of old carpet on a T-shaped stick - it might be easier to use that to extinguish a small fire rather than the spade you show at the beginning of the posting.
We use "flappers" really just a large flat rubber mud flap you'd see on large trucks stuck on a shovel handle. Not sure it would work very well on rocky ground though. You don't actually flap them, just smother the fire with it. A bit like putting out a big cigarette with a really big shoe.
Dry thunderstorms are a real danger. People always think thunder means rain but it often means disaster. I'm guessing you didn't have any dew. A wet wheat bag on a wooden handle is better than a shovel on rocky ground.
There is not ever really any dew here in utah. I know the area where cody lives, its so dry that dew would evaporate (if it formed at all) the second the sun hit it. But likely as not there won't be dew.
Sebastian Mustermann I was a wildfire fighter here in Australia and dry storms meant a real worry. Germany is not as dry as Australia. Utah looks marginal for moisture at least where Cody lives in summer.
Good to see that everybody is safe and okay mate, that's the main thing. No matter how far away one of those fires looks, it can always jump with fire balls many kms down wind and start again.
AlexCoronaPhoto I guess this is a personal preference, but for some people there is ALWAYS a need! Unless you have the packaging claiming the ingredients, even then sometimes....
I hope you and your Dad get a chance to properly thank the guys/girls from the fire department that helped fight the fire. Perhaps you could do a video with them and some of the red stuff talking about its chemistry with some controlled demos?
@alexcoronaphoto in the rural fire fighting scene (at least in Australia) they're volunteers. And even professional fire fighters deserve thanks as no amount of money can compensate for risking your life for others property. Most fire departments are also grossly underfunded too.
Fire is such a nonvisual danger. Movies always love to show people like an inch away from roaring flame, or an explosion cloud, or lava, but since fire isn't like a tangible thing, just a chemical reaction spewing light, heat, gas, and particulate, it really creates a huge area of effect beyond the flame.
Here in the UK, we have special 'Fire Beaters', which are long poles with a thick leather or rubber flap on one end. Racks of these can be found in most Forestry Commission forests, at the entrance to fire breaks. Lines of people using these are surprisingly effective, and are used in preference to shovels, in case of a spark from a shovel causing a new fire. Have you ever considered making yourself some breathing gear? Perhaps a small 're-breather'? I'm also surprised that, in fighting these fires - we've had some bad ones here, too, this year, not helped by idiots deliberately re-starting them, that carbon dioxide is not much used to choke the flames. Here, the fire has taken hold in underground peat layers, appears to go out, then reappears a short distance off. If choked by CO2, this probably would not happen. It could then be damped down with water.
I was on a volunteer dept for 10yrs and always dreaded seeing a brush fire come across the pager. Props to the guys and gals that deal with this day to day
Oh man, so glad you only have grass to deal with, but even then it can be quite dangerous. By the looks the conditions were not extreme luckily. Here in Australia, our trees are literally designed to explode doing a fire, can get messy quick.
You can definitely tell that Cody is one of those sweethearted people who always volunteer without hesitation to help. The way he cared about those little baby trees. He did a good job saving them too. It worked perfectly how the fire just went right around it. I wonder if a worker saw one of those trees and thought it's a miracle of God or something that it never got burnt and how it went completely around it, lmao.
Bae 146 is correct, Neptune aviation in Missoula, MT (they own tanker 41 shown) turned them into 3,000 gallon tankers, they have 6 or 8 of them owned now.
Lol i only just found out i live right near him, but it was pretty chaotic, theirs been back to back fires going on one to do with fireworks and another one because of a train, the fire department has been pretty busy this month.
Glad you and your family are safe. So, I'm wondering if you had considered dragging a section of chain link fence behind your quad runner? As a rake of some sort. I've seen it done to lay down the grass making it harder for fire to fuel up for lack of movable air around it. Like a 4×6 section weighted down to act as a rake or flail. Would have been easier to circle round the trees. Just a thought.
Wow... Thanks for sharing. We hear a lot of these fires, also similar ones in Spain and Greece. But we rarely get good pictures of how this looks and what it really means. The fires might look small but I can see how fast this can become a giant disaster if not stopped in time.
Very scary. I remember the wildfires in Slave Lake, and Ft. McMurray, in Alberta. They were very bad. I also remember the bad wildfires that hit British Columbia, Washington State, Oregon and California. They did so much damage.
spot fires are like crappy YT recommendations. you keep smashing em with the not interested shovel but they keep coming back. At least you proved that chemtrails are real tho 😆 keep saving them trees Cody 👍
That was some crazy footage, I've only seen a wildfire once during a road trip. I am amazed that you were able to function in those conditions without a portable air supply. Seeing as I live on a forested island, I think I'll resume experimenting with re-breathers and oxygen supplies.
Thanks for recording all this. I appreciate having your insight into these fires.. I'm just north of you. Other than smoke, were unaffected. You make it real
Jesus. Big props to the huge amount of firefighting efforts done by many different departments here. The fire retardant stuff is a real friggin' life saver.
it has some holes in it from some deer that decided to dance around on it but I'm not too worried about fixing it right now since we average less than an inch of rain over the summer.
Cody'sLab less than an inch? Last summer my relatively flat wooded area behind my house had about 2 1/2 feet of water, almost covering the big dead tree. If I could control the weather, I would've gladly donated that rain to you.
yomama isaniceperson In Tucson Az we've had 100 -110F for over a month now. We had our first rain of the year a few days ago and got about a centimeter over a day and a half.
Your composure during this endeavor was one of the most professional I have witnessed. With such an extreme event you remain calm and ready. This is outstanding and I applaud you for it. Other than that, great video. Thank you for making it.
I was just watching a lot of firefighting videos on TH-cam, (bdelder42) and he was using a leaf blower to deal with backfires, and he did a review on how effective they are for that job. Well, it looks like you could get yourself some charcoal after this at least.
Truly Infamous i personaly saw how it was used to put out burning grass. It is weary effective. But it also sprays water to increase effectivety. Also using bulldozer to make tranches is wery good option, but time consuming and Cody's family ranch is on many hills, with are hard to walk on, not talking about driving hevy equipment.
Leaf blowers are alright for for that purpose. One of my friends used to tape a colander filled with dry ice on a leaf blower and it worked very well for brush fires.
This was truly an awe-inspiring video. I had no idea wildfires could take this form. What a struggle for people like your folks who live there. What a valiant effort by all parties. How nice it is that there are factors in place that enable those planes to assist you all to save your property.
Oh Cody! I can't imagine what it must feel like to be right in the midst of that, especially trying to put it out with that shovel! I'm so sorry you've been through that, especially twice!? And that crackling from the fire sounds terrifying! I know this was over a year ago but I'm still watching your older videos since I just found your channel last week. You're so much fun to watch and incredibly intelligent, which is quite attractive! 😉 You've got that magnetic type of personality and I keep coming back for more!I hope your ranch has recovered since this was documented 🥰
I come from BC. Fires are scary af. Interesting you guys have jet bombers vs the propeller ones we have, very cool. That was a cool timelapse seeing the fire retardant doing its work
SeenCreaTive Kelowna got hit really hard one year. That smoke went into Alberta. There were other wildfires in western Canada too, in the last few several years (and even longer). They were very hard to put out, because of the drought. They said on the news that the smoke went far down into the U.S. Very scary when these fires happen.
Next video: "extracting phosphorus from the soil containing fire retardant"
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This actually is a great suggestion , would love to see that
Cody, you have a challenge.
I was out where the fire was today and it's amazing to see the fire-burned area surrounded by red-stained hillsides. It seems to very effectively stop the fire dead where they had dropped it. There certainly is a lot of the material spread around, but I believe it's mostly just clay and water so I don't think he'll be able to extract much phosphorus. I guess it's back to the mine Cody!
do it
Jul 3, 2018 "Aluminium Foil Thermite?!?!"
Jul 14, 2018 "The Ranch Was on Fire!"
I was just about to leave the same comment when I saw that you’d already beat me to it.
Well now we know Cody becomes over-protective of trees when he doesn't get enough oxygen!
that tree was his best and only friend right there.
Im so glad he did not decide to lay in the shade "just for 5 min".
My new favorite codyslab quote; "Give it the old stompy-stomp...".
"Grab the grass, pull it fast.
Most people's reaction to a wildfire: "Better evacuate and stay a safe distance away from it"
Cody's reaction: "I'm gonna whack it with a shovel"
Don't whack. Scoop and cover.
ehh theres no butter so he knows hes safe
At least he didn't try to eat any of the fire. He's growing!
Tomoko's Enterprize Thank you for the tips. I'm born and raised Alaskan but I live in Washington State. We get VERY bad Forrest fires every year now it seems.
Do you have any tips for defending against a fire? Actively fighting against one? Best tools?
I'll keep this info safe with me for life!
Also, I would love to get evolved in volunteer work.
You could try to research a bit on google
9:35 “ehh, it’ll be alright...”
*turns to enormous fireball that was once a tree*
“That one won’t.”
Lmao
Hopefully everything went alright for you guys out there with minimal property damage.
you're still alive?
Muzik Bike more alive than that one tree that’s for sure
I just saw that one of you’re vids was recommended then I see you here in the comments l hahahah👍🏻
Part 4 soon?
Eryi part 3.5 first :)
Sorry you got a strike from my department. I'll talk to the boss about it! I'm happy nothing serious burned. We once set an entire dry field on fire by accident when we were kids! It was pretty hard to put it out. I was shovel trumping like you did all the way!
ElectroBOOM Sup ahhahaha
LMAO !!!!!!!
If mehdi was there the lightning bolt would hit him and he'd come put alive
Wow ! Fancy seeing you here !
It's the Electroboom guy! 🎈🎈🎈
bob ross would be proud of you saving those happy little trees
He should plant new ones, ‘cause everyone needs a friend
yes lol
Cody beating the fire to death with a shovel. A hero!
Beating on them will spread sparks. Go slow and shovel the dirt on top. Works really well.
Cody, scrape up some of that fire retardant for testing. I would like to see how it works in one of your scientific videos.
It's Cherry Kool-Aid
just google agent orange
Agent orange is a herbicide, not a fire retardant, what are you talking about?
look up Phos-Chek. The stuff is pretty interesting. once the fire is out it acts as fertilizer.
Thomas Phipps that is cool so it puts out the fire and helps the land recover after.
I will now refer to a man fighting fire with a shovel as a Code E.
NO PUNS DAMNED IT
just call him jack of all trades
@@Felix-ve9hs I think you mean jack of all spades.
@@dominichines9996 haha
Nah, I threw a potato at a out of controls fire, turns out potatoes are like bombs
Props to that skilled pilot and your local fire deparment for keeping everything under control
"maybe I can save the tree"
-Cody, a true conservationist
The word you are looking for is farmer.
Those planes are badass. What is the chemical retardant? I haven't seen anything besides water dumped like that before.
Its a mix of mud, water, and ammonium phosphate.
Hi Cody;)
Cody'sLab does the ammonium phosphate do anything to the soil? Or is it too little to have any effect on the plants
Really clever to use mud. I wonder how much overthinking was done before someone came up with that idea.
It's actually used in alot of fertilizers!
"Seymour! The ranch is on fire!"
"No, mother, it's just the Northern Lights!"
*You steamed a really good ham*
"Maybe if i had another 12 guys..."
all he needs is 20 good men
--Jesus
if only there were 1.5 million people around somewhere that would want to help...
Honestly though, were I in his shoes, I would not want to use my connections to put people in harm's way to save a few extra hectares, especially when he seems to have it pretty much in hand.
if it were just a bit of bushwork yeah that would be stupid, but the property is also in danger and some might want to volunteer to help
Those that have never tried putting out a wildfire cannot understand how tiring it really is. The adrenaline rush is exhausting, bad air, heat, and the inner feeling of futility will bring the best man to his knees. Been there - done that. It ain't fun.
zalmaflash, my first fire was swinging a Pulaski for 36 hours with a 15 minute nap at 24 hours. Tiring doesn't describe it well enough. Working a fireline on a hill with no dozer support, 1 sawyer, trees bursting into flames on the fire line. Hop off the line to drink some water and have 80°F feel like freezing weather.
Oh I don't know.. fought fires for 8 seasons. Funnest job I've had yet.
You have been there eh !
I was speaking of a personal fire on my place - several times. I'm sure that a pro in fire control crew is different. The panic factor is higher when you [I] was alone. I do highly regard the experience you have in fighting fires and thank you for that.
i can only imagine, a brush fire like that is one thing, sure it looked like hell to do that much, but going into an actual raging forest fire? man that must be something else.
No matter how horrible and terrifying those fires are, you have to admit, there's a certain beauty to them also.
Edit: I really wish you had a headcam for these kinds of things
everybody has the inner pyromaniac, maybe
Niels van Asten I agree!
i.. hate fire... it just destroys
cunning wolf yes but the destruction gives way for new life to form... such as the circle of life.
cunning wolf I understand the sentiment but fire is also an amazingly powerful tool that our modern civilization could not exist without.
Hey Cody! Glad this fire stayed contained! I’m an Air Force Firefighter, and so I get trained on not only structural and aircraft fires, but also Wildland Firefighting. Since the risk of fire is so great in your area, you may consider buying a few tools to help you. That spade was semi-effective but you will have a MUCH easier time clearing out debris with stuff like a Pulaski Axe. I also recommend a flapper, which is just a stick with a rubber flap. It’s used to smother the fire like you tried to do with the spade. Lastly, make sure you have water!! Drink lots of water. It helps and will keep you hydrated which is one of the most important things. Drink water today for what you’ll need tomorrow.
Oh and if you wear a face mask like the N95 respirator(think of what you might find for if you’re painting. The paper face mask looking thing), that will help.
You mentioned CO and CO2 in this video, but really, CO is a concern for structural fires because what we build houses today with is different than what we used to build houses with. The smoke there is a different smoke than Wildland fires. You were likely coughing and having trouble breathing because of smoke inhalation, which can be very dangerous!
Glad you stayed safe! :)
Well, sounds like a mountain top lightning rod project could be helpful somewhere in the future
Save that tree *and that tree* SAVE ALL THE TREES!!!
Zbionix / Caleb H.
🌳🌳🔥🏃
Slow down or you will break your shovel bud. I have fought fire professionally for most of my working life up here in BC Canada. You folks have fires similar to just south of me. Fast moving nastys with lots of acrid smoke. Nasty things for sure. Getting at them when it is cooler is always a bonus as long as you can do it safely. We often have our guys come down to help you folks out when we don't need them here as much. I found over the years that keep cotton masks wetted down to be the best. They have tried all kinds of dry ones that just don't work well. I kept one in a ziplock in every avail pocket for 40 + years and gave many out to the ones without.Go slow and steady and pay attention to yourself. Self preservation first bud. Keep watching yer 6 bud. You know the basics. Better it burn than you my friend.
Tomoko's Enterprize, my only experience is wildland firefighting in Alaska and California. We used bandanas. Keeping it wet was no problem, just stay hydrated.
You're a hero man.
Without it he will get nowhere and most likely his ass burnt.Wildfire is not to be messed with. I have seen far too many people with 3 and 4 degree burns. Want to try some ? That was a really dumb remark !
Nope, I just understand the beast after losing some face hair and learning a lot over time. Thank you so much for your more than kind words my friend.
It may just be a shovel but it's a tool on hand - what are you gonna do with a broken shovel? Getting a replacement is wasted time.
I grew up in wyoming. THis sort of fire is all too familiar to me. Its still amazing just how fast they can move. Just a wave of destruction. But at the same time, it's really small. No blazing inferno. Just a creeping line of fire. People often think it would be easy to put something like that out, but the problem is literally everything is seemingly eager to catch fire.
The only good part about it is that its really easy to see coming, so no one panics. You can really take your time and get all your stuff together if you have to leave. Maybe have dinner first, heh.
The worst fire I saw when i lived there was different though. it was caused when a train carrying coal derailed. They cancelled school for like two days due to the air quality.
Here in Naches Washington we usually have a large forest fire every year. It gets so bad for about a week that you are supposed to wear masks to go outside. We still have school though. They just don't let us go outside. You cannot see past 100 meters and can look directly at the sun because it looks more like the moon. We even saw Clements Mountain burning up above our school. Fire retardant was dropped and left red streaks for a while. Air quality scale was at 300+ and I drove to ellensburg just so I could go on runs.
@@quinnjones2886 We had some wildfires quite near my city 2-3 years ago and it was crazy, my city is already very polluted (we regularly bust through the annual PM10 exposure limit in early February...), but that week was insane. The particulate levels got to like 15 times the legal limit, at times it literally looked like there was fog in the city, but it was smoke.
If I remember right they actually revoked the diesel engine limitations for a while since they weren't going to make any difference anyway and they figured it was better to let people stay in a car with an air filter rather than have them walk to take public transport while breathing that smoke.
Multiple hills on fire
Cody: Gimme a shovel
Now I understand why firefighting in forests is so hard and dangerous
SkinnyFlea 262 Tree Sap is also VERY VERY F*CKING FLAMMABLE.
Check out firefighting in Australia, almost every year there are massive bushfires in Victoria and South Australia and the Northern Territory
the fire can be put off with water, but the hardest part is the fire can be spread through the soil and keep hot inside it and eventually bringing fire back thats why so hard the other points never mentioned
Top 5 Cody headlines that would not shock me
The shed is exploding.
The barn is melting.
The yard is a radioactive slag heap.
The slime is alive.
The farm is on fire.
V. Sandrone I know, but it's testimony to his common sense the only "farm on fire" video so far is because of nature not a rocket experiment
Turbo Conquering Mega Eagle "so far" lol
Cody is a real fire fighter he fought it with a shovel
Poatao And Butter haha
Cody fighting fire with nothing but a shovel since 2018
*William Osman flashbacks*
Mr Rishi The Cookie damnit, why do bad things happen to good people 😓
Mr Rishi The Cookie bro I was thinking same thing
I cry evry tiem
Can I just appreciate that I have more likes than Justin Y. I have more likes than him on several videos. Stuff like that brings me joy.
Mr Rishi The Cookie Cody should of been there to save him
My dude literally owns a mountain 😂.
Not much you can do about a lightning fire. What gets me is when it's some idiot's camp fire that didn't get put out, or a tossed cigarette, or someone dragging steel chains behind a truck. Stay safe!
I remember when half of Utah was on fire because a dad and son were shooting power lines for fun.
The auto generated captions thought that smacking fire with a shovel is music
Redstar0024 it’s music to our ears 👂
It wasn't wrong
🤣
Redstar0024 are you trying to insinuate that it wasn't?
Skrillex.
I'm a retired firefighter. Wow, I miss it. We were a suburban department in the mid-west and didn't do a lot of wildlands firefighting but we did do some and were well trained for it. Very hot, tiring work. Stay Safe.
Same here. I fought wildfire for 40 years on and off. Domestic/commercial/industrial scare the hell out of me.
SDD525 Most trees, while alive and green, once they are tall enough to have their branches a few feet off the ground become "fire resistant" to small ground fires. But really no, no plants I know of make good fire breaks. Anyone else know ??
Tomoko's Enterprize I'm more frightened of wild fires that domestic structural fires. But that's what we dealt with the most. Commercial/manufacturing plant fires would be the worst to me. You never know what they have hiding in some old 55 gallon drums in the back, under the stairs. And neither do they. Scary!!
WUI is always the most challenging environment. You want the fire to consume fuels, but you don't want those fuels to consume houses. Also, houses always have dangerous stuff like propane tanks and weak septic to worry about.
Reckec Just a short question :) Do you know who pays for these things in the case of Cody? Does he have to pay for all these airplane loads and firefighters because it was on his ground? Because that would be horrible
SDD525 Cactus are pretty much Fire resistant. A fence of Cactus in dry area can be used.
Hey Cody! I'm a huge fan. I'm also a firefighter. Let me tell you about fire ice. This material (that's also used in diapers) holds water like crazy. It is mixed in a whole engine tank or even a tiny extinguisher. when sprayed it will put out fires and prevent the spread. It wouldn't cost too much to get enough to cover ur whole ranch in it and it wouldn't be hard to do it for ur father if ur away. Non toxic and washed away with a garden hose. Check it out my man.
Mike S it’s a polymer, it’s found in a ton of things, it’s marked up and sold to kids as orbeez xP it’s also used in some planters as a water retention system
sodium polyacrylate
That's it, my next birthday I am putting my candles out with a shovel like Cody. :)
sad birthday cake xD
When I watch your Chanel I feel like "this guy will not notice when apocalypse come" now I'm sure
[wytrzeszczux]+ The best defense is a good offense. Yeah it may seem natural to flee from apocalypse, but it's smarter to stop it.
You beat the SHIT out of that fire.
Bad fire!
Good to see that you're all OK.
Did you lose your hives, or are they OK?
Being from Central Oregon, I have had to watch fires approach our property several times, very stressful...glad the bees are safe!
As a firefighter myself I know how intense brush fires can be, I hope the fire is all the way out, I would keep an eye on the area for a few days and be careful
Cody, also get a o2 tank for recovery
In the UK, we use fire beaters - a flap of old carpet on a T-shaped stick - it might be easier to use that to extinguish a small fire rather than the spade you show at the beginning of the posting.
The shovel is easier to bring around, and you can dig up loose dirt to help cover the fire
Nicole K I always thought the UK just had muslims use children.
We use "flappers" really just a large flat rubber mud flap you'd see on large trucks stuck on a shovel handle. Not sure it would work very well on rocky ground though. You don't actually flap them, just smother the fire with it. A bit like putting out a big cigarette with a really big shoe.
Dry thunderstorms are a real danger. People always think thunder means rain but it often means disaster. I'm guessing you didn't have any dew. A wet wheat bag on a wooden handle is better than a shovel on rocky ground.
Tbh in many places thunder does mean rain. I have never in my life seen or heard about a dry thunderstorm here in Germany.
There is not ever really any dew here in utah. I know the area where cody lives, its so dry that dew would evaporate (if it formed at all) the second the sun hit it. But likely as not there won't be dew.
Sebastian Mustermann I was a wildfire fighter here in Australia and dry storms meant a real worry. Germany is not as dry as Australia. Utah looks marginal for moisture at least where Cody lives in summer.
I too was wondering why he didn't use a Fire flapper
xv hn yeah a shovel isn't very usefull. But better than nothing I guess.
Good to see that everybody is safe and okay mate, that's the main thing.
No matter how far away one of those fires looks, it can always jump with fire balls many kms down wind and start again.
And that's what prayers do. Glad to see you had no significant damage 👍❤️🙏
Great air show with the fire retardant! You should take a sample and analyse it.
Homemade Chemistry it's water, mud and ammonium phosphate. No need to analyze it.
I bet its Chemtrails!
AlexCoronaPhoto I guess this is a personal preference, but for some people there is ALWAYS a need! Unless you have the packaging claiming the ingredients, even then sometimes....
I hope you and your Dad get a chance to properly thank the guys/girls from the fire department that helped fight the fire. Perhaps you could do a video with them and some of the red stuff talking about its chemistry with some controlled demos?
That would be cool!
pgroom Tax dollars thank them enough already.
@alexcoronaphoto in the rural fire fighting scene (at least in Australia) they're volunteers. And even professional fire fighters deserve thanks as no amount of money can compensate for risking your life for others property.
Most fire departments are also grossly underfunded too.
Good idea
AlexCoronaPhoto are you saying money is a good compencetion for putting your life on the line
Fire is such a nonvisual danger. Movies always love to show people like an inch away from roaring flame, or an explosion cloud, or lava, but since fire isn't like a tangible thing, just a chemical reaction spewing light, heat, gas, and particulate, it really creates a huge area of effect beyond the flame.
Here in the UK, we have special 'Fire Beaters', which are long poles with a thick leather or rubber flap on one end. Racks of these can be found in most Forestry Commission forests, at the entrance to fire breaks. Lines of people using these are surprisingly effective, and are used in preference to shovels, in case of a spark from a shovel causing a new fire. Have you ever considered making yourself some breathing gear? Perhaps a small 're-breather'? I'm also surprised that, in fighting these fires - we've had some bad ones here, too, this year, not helped by idiots deliberately re-starting them, that carbon dioxide is not much used to choke the flames. Here, the fire has taken hold in underground peat layers, appears to go out, then reappears a short distance off. If choked by CO2, this probably would not happen. It could then be damped down with water.
Here in the US we call your firebeaters “Flappers” :)
I remember using longish strips of wet carpet to beat out fires as a kid, was wet carpet as it was near the local lake.
Just don't lend them to a fire department who's never seen one before. Had two flaps burned to a crisp when they took "flapper" literally xD
a homemade rebreather sounds possibly more dangerous than smoke
brianartillery oi you got a loicense for that?
Cody uses stompy-stomp, its super effective.
SuperKooks *surprisingly effective
Ryker Haun it's a Pokemon reference.
ShadowVipers yea I was just quoting the video
I love the planes dropping the flame retardant. It's so cool.
Wow that amazing video of what your family is going through... thanks Cody.. good luck bud
I was on a volunteer dept for 10yrs and always dreaded seeing a brush fire come across the pager. Props to the guys and gals that deal with this day to day
Oh man, so glad you only have grass to deal with, but even then it can be quite dangerous. By the looks the conditions were not extreme luckily.
Here in Australia, our trees are literally designed to explode doing a fire, can get messy quick.
Matthew Farrell those trees have spread to the states and cause major issues in California
Yeah I saw that when we went to Cali a few years ago, very foolish of the Americans to allow that to happen.
That's Americans for you. Foolish af
the communist in California values all tress the same u cant discriminate just cause they want to explode themselves to kill u
what are these trees that explode? I'm genuinely curious
Cody used extinguish, it was mildly effective
it was super effective
but surprisingly so...
Water Bomber uses Extinguish! Critical Hit! It's Super Effective!
You mean Cody used shovel hit, the firefighters used extinguish, and it dealt a decent amount of damage.
The one time a "splash attack" might actually have done something!
You can definitely tell that Cody is one of those sweethearted people who always volunteer without hesitation to help. The way he cared about those little baby trees. He did a good job saving them too. It worked perfectly how the fire just went right around it.
I wonder if a worker saw one of those trees and thought it's a miracle of God or something that it never got burnt and how it went completely around it, lmao.
Wishing you all and the farm best wishes and that it all goes out soon. A thank you towards the fire staff who did/are helping.
Cody defender of the plains *que lord of the rings music*
Glad no one was hurt, the first aircraft looked like a BAE146, I built alot of flight deck parts for that plane, shame they don't make it anymore
The little English workshop Is it your bae?
Pretty sure it was a BAe 146 or the Avro RJ100 version of it.
Great bird my friend !
That’s a 146 for sure.
Bae 146 is correct, Neptune aviation in Missoula, MT (they own tanker 41 shown) turned them into 3,000 gallon tankers, they have 6 or 8 of them owned now.
its so amazing to see someone so humble accumulate so many subscribers. really shows how much people value you for who you ate the content you post
Thanks for sharing your experience, glad you and your family are safe!
this is a really big fire, i hope for you a fast resolution of this big problem with low damages on your property.
Ciao!
Gianni Laschi it's small compared to the last one
Gianni Laschi you can donate to his patreon to help out
Lol i only just found out i live right near him, but it was pretty chaotic, theirs been back to back fires going on one to do with fireworks and another one because of a train, the fire department has been pretty busy this month.
Glad you and your family are safe. So, I'm wondering if you had considered dragging a section of chain link fence behind your quad runner? As a rake of some sort. I've seen it done to lay down the grass making it harder for fire to fuel up for lack of movable air around it. Like a 4×6 section weighted down to act as a rake or flail. Would have been easier to circle round the trees. Just a thought.
Thanks for sharing this experience Cody. It's unfortunate that it happened, but you stayed calm and kept a cool head (no pun intended)
Glad you and the ranch is saved. Stay safe Cory. Jord, High Peak, UK.
Today I learned that wack a mole is effective against fire
Until you break the handle. Scoop and cover is the way to get it done.
Tomoko's Enterprize thanks for the info 🙂🙂
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I feel accomplished
Exploring the area sounds like fun
Thanks for sharing this, Cody! Glad no one seems to have been hurt. Stay safe. ✌️
Stay safe, Cody!
Wow... Thanks for sharing. We hear a lot of these fires, also similar ones in Spain and Greece. But we rarely get good pictures of how this looks and what it really means. The fires might look small but I can see how fast this can become a giant disaster if not stopped in time.
Oxyuran yeah now add pine and eucalyptus forests and you've got the typical Portuguese wildfire...
Very scary. I remember the wildfires in Slave Lake, and Ft. McMurray, in Alberta. They were very bad. I also remember the bad wildfires that hit British Columbia, Washington State, Oregon and California. They did so much damage.
Dwayne Wladyka I was in Kamloops over the weekend for a wedding and fires right outside the city.
Mike Coffin That is very scary. Hope everyone will be okay.
Dude I remeber that. As an albertan those times where tough. But we pulled through.
Thanks for sharing, Cody. Glad it worked out okay. Thoughts are with you and yours.
Nice job Cody!! Nice to see family values, intelligence, strength and loyalty all in one video. Amazing stuff. Thanks!
Can you do a tour of your vehicles, everything from your personal cars, trucks to the stuff you've got sitting on the ranch?
spot fires are like crappy YT recommendations. you keep smashing em with the not interested shovel but they keep coming back.
At least you proved that chemtrails are real tho 😆
keep saving them trees Cody 👍
one day someone will come up with a sarcasm emoji 😆
BEST OF LUCK CODY!
stay safe out there, thanks for sharing your adventure!
Great work on documenting this! I hope all is well.
sorry u had to go through that buddy but u did a great job
That was some crazy footage, I've only seen a wildfire once during a road trip.
I am amazed that you were able to function in those conditions without a portable air supply.
Seeing as I live on a forested island, I think I'll resume experimenting with re-breathers and oxygen supplies.
Thanks for recording all this. I appreciate having your insight into these fires.. I'm just north of you. Other than smoke, were unaffected.
You make it real
Thanks for the update, glad everyone stayed safe
Cody I hope that the ranch will recover quickly
those coyotes were out for revenge
Jesus. Big props to the huge amount of firefighting efforts done by many different departments here. The fire retardant stuff is a real friggin' life saver.
Glad you are all okay. You guys and the firefighters did a great job getting control over the fire.
Avro RJ water bomber! That was very unexpected and very cool
I was thinking too if it was Avro. Didn't know Americans would use a British plane :D
and the second plane 12:50 was probably an Air Tractor 802F, hard to tell when it's so far away though
Seeing how dry everything is got me to thinking about your water shed project you did way back. Is that still working to collect rain water?
it has some holes in it from some deer that decided to dance around on it but I'm not too worried about fixing it right now since we average less than an inch of rain over the summer.
Cody'sLab less than an inch? Last summer my relatively flat wooded area behind my house had about 2 1/2 feet of water, almost covering the big dead tree. If I could control the weather, I would've gladly donated that rain to you.
Truly Infamous I live in the same area as Cody and its ridiculous this year. 95+ everyday, and level 11 UV exposure. No surprise there's fires
yomama isaniceperson
In Tucson Az we've had 100 -110F for over a month now. We had our first rain of the year a few days ago and got about a centimeter over a day and a half.
Domino52o guess it's a dry one for most of the South West. As usual
Your composure during this endeavor was one of the most professional I have witnessed. With such an extreme event you remain calm and ready. This is outstanding and I applaud you for it. Other than that, great video. Thank you for making it.
Best wishes to you and yours Cody! Stay safe!
I was just watching a lot of firefighting videos on TH-cam, (bdelder42) and he was using a leaf blower to deal with backfires, and he did a review on how effective they are for that job. Well, it looks like you could get yourself some charcoal after this at least.
Truly Infamous i personaly saw how it was used to put out burning grass. It is weary effective. But it also sprays water to increase effectivety.
Also using bulldozer to make tranches is wery good option, but time consuming and Cody's family ranch is on many hills, with are hard to walk on, not talking about driving hevy equipment.
Leaf blowers are alright for for that purpose. One of my friends used to tape a colander filled with dry ice on a leaf blower and it worked very well for brush fires.
Just build a stone wall. Cody's property has stones all over the place. The fire would never get into his property ever again.
Dillon Dunlap Thats genius, a diy CO2 fire extinguisher.
Yo that second plane pass was sick
This was truly an awe-inspiring video. I had no idea wildfires could take this form. What a struggle for people like your folks who live there. What a valiant effort by all parties. How nice it is that there are factors in place that enable those planes to assist you all to save your property.
Oh Cody! I can't imagine what it must feel like to be right in the midst of that, especially trying to put it out with that shovel! I'm so sorry you've been through that, especially twice!? And that crackling from the fire sounds terrifying! I know this was over a year ago but I'm still watching your older videos since I just found your channel last week. You're so much fun to watch and incredibly intelligent, which is quite attractive! 😉 You've got that magnetic type of personality and I keep coming back for more!I hope your ranch has recovered since this was documented 🥰
respect for not putting ALL CAPS on the title!
I come from BC. Fires are scary af. Interesting you guys have jet bombers vs the propeller ones we have, very cool. That was a cool timelapse seeing the fire retardant doing its work
SeenCreaTive, I'm from Alaska, some of our fires easily hit 200,000 acres. You probably have a good idea of the scale.
Old Rap, heli exit guy here. Their fires are so different than here.I am north and theirs are so very much like Kamloops.
Jon Anderson sure do, we've been lucky here in the Interior, but we've had some seriously close calls, however nothing like the Caribou region
Tomoko's Enterprize I could see that, Kamloops is definitely that dry grassland
SeenCreaTive Kelowna got hit really hard one year. That smoke went into Alberta. There were other wildfires in western Canada too, in the last few several years (and even longer). They were very hard to put out, because of the drought. They said on the news that the smoke went far down into the U.S. Very scary when these fires happen.
Such a good person you are Cody hope you best!
What a noble guy. Warms my heart Cody, such a great guy
The ranch!
The ranch!
The ranch was on fire!
I'm glad someone else made this comment
This takes me back lol. Haven't listened to BHG in so long.
Probably not how you wanted to treat the ol' bronchs while getting over a cold.
Glad y'all are safe and hopefully didn't loose much important if anything
It's so cool that you got an upclose as possible shot of the plane putting the fire out. Awesome shot, Cody.