Blanco Lirio sent me. I do hope that the CLOSED CAPTIONS appear soon, as I'm a deaf dude! I watched other vids of yours -- WOW, outstanding work, brah!
As a retired Fire Captain I appreciate your calm clarity and use of appropriate terminology! You're the real deal and your updates on Caldor have been fantastic for those of us watching our beloved Tahoe from far away. Please continue your excellent reports and let us know in future videos how we can support The Lookout
Your channel has really helped me cope psychologically with the Caldor fire. Thank you for the straight-up information. South Tahoe was my home for many years. And yes - we must transform our relationship with fire.
Thank you! You, your wife and editor are much appreciated. I'm very grateful for your knowledge and style in covering this. As a permanent resident and community member of Meyers and SLT, I cannot express to you how much I value your no-nonsense reporting. Looking forward to supporting your work.
Juan Brown from The Bloncolirio channel suggested we should check you out. Great detailed overview of what’s is happening. Glad to come on over and subscribe. Thank you!
Thank you for your succinct reporting. I found with the suggestion of Blanco Lirio's Juan Brown who I respect tremendously. If he says you're good, that means you're better good! 👍👍👍
So refreshing to listen to a person who worked in the field and understands the real deal. You have a similar background to myself. Great commentary and presentation!
It's incredibly difficult as a former firefighter to watch these fires and not be able to do anything, have access to proper briefings, or play any active planning or suppression role. This is definitely helping.
So glad you are here, I don’t even check the news, most of it’s repeating the same thing, I’m on the east side of the lake, starting to breath a little easier, not completely though! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Thank you so much for your information. As a resident of SLT, I wholeheartedly appreciate your intelligent and direct videos. They have guided my emotional response to our town’s new reality in truth instead of fear. Thank you for caring about our town ( and for all the other towns you’ve helped in the many years you’ve done this). Thank you.
Sending well wishes to you and friends/family who have been affected. I can see myself living in fire country one day, but I can’t imagine the mental fortitude it must take. You guys are in many people’s thoughts and prayers, and we can’t wait to see y’all survive, rebuild, and THRIVE afterwards!
Your information is so comforting to those wanting a true perspective on matters and how to move forward with fire planning. Hope more people start watching your channel. Stay Human! Thanks
New subscriber sent over from @Blancolirio. Great info, and can't wait to hear how we can move forward and ditch the old paradigm. Also, it would be cool to see what small mountain communities can can do to help - we can't rely on the government to do everything for us. I really think citizens need to be taking the lead here, as long as we are given proper direction.
Was in IMT for 20 year. This like being back in the planning meeting. keep up the good work. People need to know the right info to make the right decision.
Thank you Zeke. You are a wealth of “real” information and is so much appreciated. YES!!!!! You are so WORTH watching, listening, and learning from. Thank you for the time and efforts to give the real deal information!!!
Great job with relevant comments, especially with your experience. I worked in the USFS back in the early 70s, fought a couple of fires. Then I fell into the mapping/ GIS technology for 25 years. Thanks for your excellent video
Really appreciate your work and the honest coverage. Our family has been on edge and faithfully watching all of your updates. Enjoy your break. We will miss you.
Thank you so much for removing sensationalism from your reporting. I have appreciated this report so much throughout this fire, especially as it is knocking on the door of my neighborhood. It's comforting to have an honest evaluation and your mapping is excellent. I know we are all so grateful to you. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with us and keep up the great work!
Thank you for continuing to provide these updates. They are so helpful during this time of stress. With a house full of evacuees in Reno, we appreciate it!!
Thank you for sharing all this. never really knew how all this worked. I have a great deal more respect for how many people it takes to save homes, and at the same time try to get these fires out.
You are so right about the media! This has been so informative and intelligent! Wonderful mapping! THANK YOU to all the fire crews fighting out there, on the ground and in the air! You all are amazing!
I can’t explain how much I appreciate your through, articulate honest reporting. Add teacher to your resume. I feel hope for my cabin surviving Caldor and feel even a little empowered by all my new found information about fire and fire fighting. Thank you so so much! -MLH
You're doing a great job and provide a great service! My sister and her husband back right up to the fire between the airport and Heavenly. I couldn't quite figure it out as I've only been there once but you made everything perfectly clear and have eased a lot of worry by all. Thank you and I wish you the best on your continued journey.
Can't tell you how much we've appreciated your information, assessments, and style. You've played a huge part in keeping our family sane and grounded while away from our beloved Christmas Valley home. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Awesome overview Zeke, thanks for doing this, your tactical and practical insights are exceptional. I’m looking forward to your upcoming discussions with other experts very much. 👍🏻
You and your team are a gift to many of us that are worried about our homes and locations we know and love. I stopped watching the news after 9/11 and am so grateful for you sharing the real story. Thank you!
Thank you, thank you, thank you. You have THE BEST fire coverage and information. Your videos are very educational and enlightening; and provide a much needed and much appreciated public service. Thank you for getting the word out on fire in our forests, and what is needed moving forward.
Thank you so much for your fantastic view and commentary about the fire. I'm sure you have plenty of ideas for future posts, but here is one to think about. Lake Kirkwood, across 88 from the ski resort, has an interesting fire fighting situation. There are 24 cabins (many historical landmarks and a Girl Scout camp). These can be accessed only by walking or row boat. Aside from a telephone line, they are all off the grid. Being in the Forest, we are happily obligated to protect the forest. I can only imagine the challenges the the fire crews have in protecting the cabins from this fast moving fire. No way to make dozer lines, no way to bring in trucks. No easy way to haul away fire fuel. I know we have be unable to get fire insurance since there are no fire hydrants near by. I am sure there are other areas like this. I would love to hear and see how the fire crews managed to, so far, protect all of the cabins and the Girl Scout Camp. Thanks for listening and I am looking forward to more of your posts.
This is the most useful information I have seen since this fire started thank you for sharing! Hopefully all the fire fighters stay safe and we can all go back home soon.
You’re the right man (and wife and friend) at the right time. Your input is so timely and just what the people need. Except for a few news reporters and my hats off to them too, the fires are hardly a mention on news channels. Kidos
My new favorite channel. Really looking forward to learn more about how to better deal with wildfires and how to better prevent them from professional sources. It’s sickening to see amateurs getting at each other’s throat with everyone claiming to know it all.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I feel the same as all the other people commenting. We need clear calm an concise reporting.. Much appreciated 🙏 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thanks so much for your updates, we're glued to them here. You've added so much information and expertise to the public discourse. When I go from your channel to watching a TV news update about the fire, the disparity of information density between the two is incredible. Thanks for everything, I'm forwarding this channel everywhere!
You’re the best. Facts and straight up real, no drama. Thank you for all you are doing. Can’t wait to listen to the up and coming informative interviews with peeps in the know 👍👏
THANKS! You are providing MUCH BETTER info than the National “news” outlets are doing with their “coverage” of this. It is refreshing to hear actual information rather than hearing dated sensation seeking news. WELL DONE!
Top Notch! No nonsense! Really appreciate all of your efforts in sharing tactical knowledge and data. Your 1 of a Kind Zeke! A huge thank you to your team and wife! Stay safe! Go ahead put the donation link here too! We support you! 🙌
Great info, I get so tired of reporters repeating the same picture of a burning tree, its worthless. I'm from the area and would love to hear your thoughts on how the history of fire suppression programs, logging history in the area, and the effects of the drought have increased fuels in western forests and your thoughts on how forest management should change going forward.
Just subscribed, referred by Juan a Blancoliro Channel. I watch a lot of TH-cam and you are the first channel I have subscribed to. I have also started following your blog regarding the Dixie fire. Hopefully you will be able to start uploading video regarding that fire also. Keep up the good work.
Keep it up, great information. Really appreciate the work. This is a topic that is really important, and needs to be addressed in new management plans.
Thank you very much;. your mapping skills have helped tremendously. They have brought a element of calm to many locals. Super helpful to see a bird's eye view of Christmas Valley / Kyburz / Tahoe Airport .... and other zones. Stay safe + God bless ....
This is the level of detailed information we’d never get from traditional news. I now completely understand where I stand. My home is off Golden Bear, SLT and I was glued to the TV looking for something on my community. nothing. Great JOB!
Thank you for this amazing perspective of the fire. Unassuming, straightforward, with none of the media drama. I will certainly subscribe. "Stay human"!
Good to see you Zeke! Thank you for the great update! Seriously the most comprehensive report I have seen yet. I have learned so much from you about fire behavior, I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your reports.
Like you said the regular news loops old video of the biggest flames. You never get the REAL picture of what the fire is doing. Thank you for your clear concise accurate information. Awesome website!
I'm very interested in your vision for this channel. Such an important and fascinating real world subject. Fire is a fundamental force of nature that shaped the land before we settled that land. We do need better ways to coexist because we'll never prevent or put out big fires, like you said.
Your honest reporting hopefully can help politicians understand what can be done to build a workable relationship with fire. Appreciate your work. Thank you. Sending well wishes to all.
Hey Zeke great update and info on your channel. I have been following you on FB pages all summer. Found out from a friend of mine that works at Cal Fire. You to are from the same town Westwood and went to school together Monique Carrera. Keep up the good fight and getting the info out to the public. We lost our house in the CARR fire. I wish I had the info like you post back then. We would have left sooner and gotten stuff from our house to save. Instead we did not get the proper info and lost everything. I send all my friends online your post when they need info. Great work and thanks again.
Thank you Zeke! You helped me figure out that my house was still there and how to find out if our trees are still there and I so appreciate all you are doing! Sincerely!
I would love to be a part of the conversation. I was the author of the CWPP for Tahoe and then was the wildland fire manager for Tahoe Douglas Fire. I do think our projects helped in this fight.
Great site and information. Spent almost 30 years logging, much of it in El Dorado County and used to own several pieces of timberland in El Dorado, two of which burned in this fire, two of which burned in the King Fire. It's encouraging to see people from different perspectives finally focusing on the fuel problem and how fire suppression for the last 80 years has put us in a large box. As a logger I know thinning the forest helps, but realistically there is only so much market for logs. Prescriptive burning on a much, much larger scale is the most practical way to get out of the box we're in regardless of what anyone's pet hobby horse is, whether logging, climate, aesthetics or whatever. One of the problems we have created, as you know, is that when a canopy is destroyed the fuel problem very quickly regenerates because brush usually chokes the burn in a only a year or two and trees take decades to grow back to the point they can shade the brush out. Once a brush field is established a prescriptive burn will destroy whatever young trees have managed to grow. Fixing the problem will probably take as long as it did to create it. But even then, prehistory shows the forest was a mosaic of old growth and areas slowly recovering from catastrophic canopy fires. The West has a dry season, mountains, winds and trees. That's a recipe for fire and that recipe isn't going to fundamentally change. Stephen Pyne who I disagree with on some things makes a hard to argue with point; “If we keep fighting a war with fire, three things are going to happen. We’re going to spend a lot of money, we’re going to take a lot of casualties, and we’re going to lose.”
Great coverage. Thanks much. We live in Carson, so would appreciate more coverage of the eastern edge of the fire if possible. Thanks for what you do!!
Thank you so much for the information, and the way you present it to us in such a clear and precise way! Your'e easy to understand, I'm close to where the fire started on the Amador county line, and I feel a little safer now. I'm a subscriber now, and I shared, so thank you again!!
You hit it on the head. We need to talk about all events non fear-based. I think we are completely sick of this sensationalising of everything. Thank you again. Amador County resident here
Phenomenal reporting! Learning so much from the mapping data you present and appreciate your background story as well. Staying tuned for more especially as your channel evolves. #stayhuman
Blanco Lirio sent me. I do hope that the CLOSED CAPTIONS appear soon, as I'm a deaf dude! I watched other vids of yours -- WOW, outstanding work, brah!
As a retired Fire Captain I appreciate your calm clarity and use of appropriate terminology! You're the real deal and your updates on Caldor have been fantastic for those of us watching our beloved Tahoe from far away. Please continue your excellent reports and let us know in future videos how we can support The Lookout
Thank you for your calm rational reporting on these events.
As a retired firefighter living in Tahoe I have found your videos to be an excellent source to keep up with what's going on...thank you!
Your channel has really helped me cope psychologically with the Caldor fire. Thank you for the straight-up information. South Tahoe was my home for many years. And yes - we must transform our relationship with fire.
Very refreshing to find a source of information that is not filled with drama and sensationalism. Thank you.
This video is so refreshing from having to rely on all the worthless reports we see on locall News outlets. Thank you!
Thank you! You, your wife and editor are much appreciated. I'm very grateful for your knowledge and style in covering this. As a permanent resident and community member of Meyers and SLT, I cannot express to you how much I value your no-nonsense reporting. Looking forward to supporting your work.
Zeke great information on the fire thank you to Juan over at Blancolirio for mentioning your channel
As a Geographer - I am very impressed by your ability to explain a real-time event with maps. Great job.
Juan Brown from The Bloncolirio channel suggested we should check you out. Great detailed overview of what’s is happening. Glad to come on over and subscribe. Thank you!
Thank you for your succinct reporting. I found with the suggestion of Blanco Lirio's Juan Brown who I respect tremendously. If he says you're good, that means you're better good! 👍👍👍
So refreshing to listen to a person who worked in the field and understands the real deal. You have a similar background to myself. Great commentary and presentation!
It's incredibly difficult as a former firefighter to watch these fires and not be able to do anything, have access to proper briefings, or play any active planning or suppression role. This is definitely helping.
So glad you are here, I don’t even check the news, most of it’s repeating the same thing, I’m on the east side of the lake, starting to breath a little easier, not completely though! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I've been watching ABC10. They're do a phenomenal job. The rest are overdramatizing things and I hate it.
Great job. I fly the air attack platform and your use of terms and strategy descriptions are spot on.
Thank you so much for your information. As a resident of SLT, I wholeheartedly appreciate your intelligent and direct videos. They have guided my emotional response to our town’s new reality in truth instead of fear. Thank you for caring about our town ( and for all the other towns you’ve helped in the many years you’ve done this). Thank you.
Sending well wishes to you and friends/family who have been affected. I can see myself living in fire country one day, but I can’t imagine the mental fortitude it must take. You guys are in many people’s thoughts and prayers, and we can’t wait to see y’all survive, rebuild, and THRIVE afterwards!
Truth instead of fear is extremely welcome. 🙏
Your information is so comforting to those wanting a true perspective on matters and how to move forward with fire planning. Hope more people start watching your channel. Stay Human! Thanks
you need 5 million subscribers. The message and information you provide is so far above the news! Thank you, keep it going.
New subscriber sent over from @Blancolirio. Great info, and can't wait to hear how we can move forward and ditch the old paradigm. Also, it would be cool to see what small mountain communities can can do to help - we can't rely on the government to do everything for us. I really think citizens need to be taking the lead here, as long as we are given proper direction.
AGREED!:-) 🖖
Was in IMT for 20 year. This like being back in the planning meeting. keep up the good work. People need to know the right info to make the right decision.
Thank you so much! Love your approach to fire coverage. The graphics make it so much easier to visualize what is going on and where.
Thank you Zeke. You are a wealth of “real” information and is so much appreciated. YES!!!!! You are so WORTH watching, listening, and learning from. Thank you for the time and efforts to give the real deal information!!!
Another really informative update. Thanks from a long-time Meyers homeowner. I'm recommending this channel to everyone I can.
Great job with relevant comments, especially with your experience. I worked in the USFS back in the early 70s, fought a couple of fires. Then I fell into the mapping/ GIS technology for 25 years.
Thanks for your excellent video
Really appreciate your work and the honest coverage. Our family has been on edge and faithfully watching all of your updates. Enjoy your break. We will miss you.
This makes me soooooo happy. The good fire story is ready to be heard. Thank you for being willing to say the truth, Zeke.
What a difference a night makes, this is looking much better 💪 Cal Fire!!!
Thank you so much for removing sensationalism from your reporting. I have appreciated this report so much throughout this fire, especially as it is knocking on the door of my neighborhood. It's comforting to have an honest evaluation and your mapping is excellent. I know we are all so grateful to you. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with us and keep up the great work!
Thank you for continuing to provide these updates. They are so helpful during this time of stress. With a house full of evacuees in Reno, we appreciate it!!
Thank you so much for your updates! They are very informative and encouraging.
This is by far the best fire reporting I've seen. CalFire needs to recruit this guy to help with the briefings!!
I'll second that statement!
Thank you for sharing all this. never really knew how all this worked. I have a great deal more respect for how many people it takes to save homes, and at the same time try to get these fires out.
You are so right about the media! This has been so informative and intelligent! Wonderful mapping! THANK YOU to all the fire crews fighting out there, on the ground and in the air! You all are amazing!
Thank you and the fire fighters so much! Getting the straight scoop. finally.
I look forward to your daily updates about the Caldor Fire. Thank you so much! Excellent and informative commentary!
I can’t explain how much I appreciate your through, articulate honest reporting. Add teacher to your resume. I feel hope for my cabin surviving Caldor and feel even a little empowered by all my new found information about fire and fire fighting. Thank you so so much! -MLH
Knowledge IS empowering!:-) Good Luck!!! 🙏
Great coverage. I live in the neighborhood of the CZU fire and it would have been tremendous to see your programming then.
This fire mom really enjoys and respects your reporting. Great information and you convey it in a way that makes it understandable! Thank you!
This is a very cleaver & safe way to present the how the Caldor Fire is spreading. Great job!
You're doing a great job and provide a great service! My sister and her husband back right up to the fire between the airport and Heavenly. I couldn't quite figure it out as I've only been there once but you made everything perfectly clear and have eased a lot of worry by all. Thank you and I wish you the best on your continued journey.
Can't tell you how much we've appreciated your information, assessments, and style. You've played a huge part in keeping our family sane and grounded while away from our beloved Christmas Valley home. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
You are a gem. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
Awesome overview Zeke, thanks for doing this, your tactical and practical insights are exceptional. I’m looking forward to your upcoming discussions with other experts very much. 👍🏻
Looking forward to future videos and interviews. Excellent public education and valuable information about forest fires and forest management.
You and your team are a gift to many of us that are worried about our homes and locations we know and love. I stopped watching the news after 9/11 and am so grateful for you sharing the real story. Thank you!
This broadcast is amazing, so helpful to see this mapping. I have a house in South Lake and this has been super informative.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. You have THE BEST fire coverage and information. Your videos are very educational and enlightening; and provide a much needed and much appreciated public service. Thank you for getting the word out on fire in our forests, and what is needed moving forward.
AGREED!:-) 🖖
Wow!! This Channel is Great Zeke. Thank you for the coverage of the Caldor Fire.
Thank you so much for your fantastic view and commentary about the fire. I'm sure you have plenty of ideas for future posts, but here is one to think about. Lake Kirkwood, across 88 from the ski resort, has an interesting fire fighting situation. There are 24 cabins (many historical landmarks and a Girl Scout camp). These can be accessed only by walking or row boat. Aside from a telephone line, they are all off the grid. Being in the Forest, we are happily obligated to protect the forest. I can only imagine the challenges the the fire crews have in protecting the cabins from this fast moving fire. No way to make dozer lines, no way to bring in trucks. No easy way to haul away fire fuel. I know we have be unable to get fire insurance since there are no fire hydrants near by. I am sure there are other areas like this. I would love to hear and see how the fire crews managed to, so far, protect all of the cabins and the Girl Scout Camp. Thanks for listening and I am looking forward to more of your posts.
Love your mission, vision, and education. Thank you!
Love the insight from a firefighter perspective and on-the-ground strategies
This is the most useful information I have seen since this fire started thank you for sharing! Hopefully all the fire fighters stay safe and we can all go back home soon.
THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH FOR THESE!!!! THIS IS ABSOLUTELY THE CLEAREST MOST HELPFUL FIRE UPDATES WE HAVE EVER SEEN. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!!
You’re the right man (and wife and friend) at the right time. Your input is so timely and just what the people need. Except for a few news reporters and my hats off to them too, the fires are hardly a mention on news channels. Kidos
My new favorite channel. Really looking forward to learn more about how to better deal with wildfires and how to better prevent them from professional sources. It’s sickening to see amateurs getting at each other’s throat with everyone claiming to know it all.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I feel the same as all the other people commenting. We need clear calm an concise reporting.. Much appreciated 🙏 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
So good, best fire coverage by far. Been checking in every day since I found it.
Thanks so much for your updates, we're glued to them here. You've added so much information and expertise to the public discourse. When I go from your channel to watching a TV news update about the fire, the disparity of information density between the two is incredible. Thanks for everything, I'm forwarding this channel everywhere!
Best fire reporting that I have found. Hope you will be able to cover other fires in the future.
You’re the best. Facts and straight up real, no drama. Thank you for all you are doing. Can’t wait to listen to the up and coming informative interviews with peeps in the know 👍👏
Thanks for the straight in depth reporting on the fire, the best information available. Keep up the great work!
THANKS! You are providing MUCH BETTER info than the National “news” outlets are doing with their “coverage” of this. It is refreshing to hear actual information rather than hearing dated sensation seeking news.
WELL DONE!
Juan Brown sent me here…great job of sticking to the facts and a breath of fresh air from “tell lie vision” just subscribed 👏💯
Tell lie vision! BRILLIANT! 🖖
Top Notch! No nonsense! Really appreciate all of your efforts in sharing tactical knowledge and data. Your 1 of a Kind Zeke! A huge thank you to your team and wife! Stay safe! Go ahead put the donation link here too! We support you! 🙌
Truly appreciate the honest and pragmatic reporting. Thank you 🙏.
Great info, I get so tired of reporters repeating the same picture of a burning tree, its worthless. I'm from the area and would love to hear your thoughts on how the history of fire suppression programs, logging history in the area, and the effects of the drought have increased fuels in western forests and your thoughts on how forest management should change going forward.
Good reports ! Learn more in 15 minutes than watching news on TV for hours.
Just subscribed, referred by Juan a Blancoliro Channel. I watch a lot of TH-cam and you are the first channel I have subscribed to. I have also started following your blog regarding the Dixie fire. Hopefully you will be able to start uploading video regarding that fire also.
Keep up the good work.
Keep it up, great information. Really appreciate the work. This is a topic that is really important, and needs to be addressed in new management plans.
Thank you very much;. your mapping skills have helped tremendously. They have brought a element of calm to many locals. Super helpful to see a bird's eye view of Christmas Valley / Kyburz / Tahoe Airport .... and other zones. Stay safe + God bless ....
This is the level of detailed information we’d never get from traditional news. I now completely understand where I stand. My home is off Golden Bear, SLT and I was glued to the TV looking for something on my community. nothing. Great JOB!
Good job. Your efforts are greatly appreciated. Juan Brown over at the blancolirio channel sent me over to check out your channel.
Thank you for this amazing perspective of the fire. Unassuming, straightforward, with none of the media drama. I will certainly subscribe. "Stay human"!
Well done. Glad Juan Browne mentioned your channel.
Zeke, time to put up a link to Patreon so we can support your channel. Thanks for the great work.
Good to see you Zeke! Thank you for the great update! Seriously the most comprehensive report I have seen yet. I have learned so much from you about fire behavior, I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your reports.
Like you said the regular news loops old video of the biggest flames. You never get the REAL picture of what the fire is doing. Thank you for your clear concise accurate information. Awesome website!
I'm very interested in your vision for this channel. Such an important and fascinating real world subject. Fire is a fundamental force of nature that shaped the land before we settled that land. We do need better ways to coexist because we'll never prevent or put out big fires, like you said.
Your honest reporting hopefully can help politicians understand what can be done to build a workable relationship with fire. Appreciate your work. Thank you. Sending well wishes to all.
Hey Zeke great update and info on your channel. I have been following you on FB pages all summer. Found out from a friend of mine that works at Cal Fire. You to are from the same town Westwood and went to school together Monique Carrera. Keep up the good fight and getting the info out to the public. We lost our house in the CARR fire. I wish I had the info like you post back then. We would have left sooner and gotten stuff from our house to save. Instead we did not get the proper info and lost everything. I send all my friends online your post when they need info. Great work and thanks again.
Time for a TED talk Zeke. Thanks for your excellent coverage.
Hi, Zeke. I really appreciate what you are doing here. Your presentation is clear, coherent and most of all comprehensive. Great work. Thank you.
Thank you SOOOOO much for this unsensationalized coverage, this is a wonderful public service!
BRAVO. Great work and deeply appreciate the honest non-fear based look a fires. Thank you for what you're doing.
That’s cool you have access to the IR flight data. It used to be available to public but now they’ve seemed to restrict access to it.
great info. thank you
Thank you Zeke! You helped me figure out that my house was still there and how to find out if our trees are still there and I so appreciate all you are doing! Sincerely!
I would love to be a part of the conversation. I was the author of the CWPP for Tahoe and then was the wildland fire manager for Tahoe Douglas Fire. I do think our projects helped in this fight.
@@irene-pak *Community Wildfire Protection Plan. Google CWPP Tahoe to see the plan.
Great site and information.
Spent almost 30 years logging, much of it in El Dorado County and used to own several pieces of timberland in El Dorado, two of which burned in this fire, two of which burned in the King Fire.
It's encouraging to see people from different perspectives finally focusing on the fuel problem and how fire suppression for the last 80 years has put us in a large box.
As a logger I know thinning the forest helps, but realistically there is only so much market for logs. Prescriptive burning on a much, much larger scale is the most practical way to get out of the box we're in regardless of what anyone's pet hobby horse is, whether logging, climate, aesthetics or whatever.
One of the problems we have created, as you know, is that when a canopy is destroyed the fuel problem very quickly regenerates because brush usually chokes the burn in a only a year or two and trees take decades to grow back to the point they can shade the brush out. Once a brush field is established a prescriptive burn will destroy whatever young trees have managed to grow.
Fixing the problem will probably take as long as it did to create it. But even then, prehistory shows the forest was a mosaic of old growth and areas slowly recovering from catastrophic canopy fires. The West has a dry season, mountains, winds and trees. That's a recipe for fire and that recipe isn't going to fundamentally change.
Stephen Pyne who I disagree with on some things makes a hard to argue with point; “If we keep fighting a war with fire, three things are going to happen. We’re going to spend a lot of money, we’re going to take a lot of casualties, and we’re going to lose.”
Great coverage. Thanks much. We live in Carson, so would appreciate more coverage of the eastern edge of the fire if possible. Thanks for what you do!!
Thank you so much for the information, and the way you present it to us in such a clear and precise way! Your'e easy to understand, I'm close to where the fire started on the Amador county line, and I feel a little safer now. I'm a subscriber now, and I shared, so thank you again!!
"Honest" fire reporting. That's the term I have been searching for. Brilliant. Thank you.
100% agree on the news coverage! This is my goto place for information.
You hit it on the head. We need to talk about all events non fear-based. I think we are completely sick of this sensationalising of everything. Thank you again. Amador County resident here
Can’t tell you how much I appreciate your updates and perspective. Thank you!
Love your knowledge based approach to (all things) fire! Keep it up, you'll continue to grow.
Thanks ~
Phenomenal reporting! Learning so much from the mapping data you present and appreciate your background story as well. Staying tuned for more especially as your channel evolves. #stayhuman
Hands down the best source of information on fires right now! Thank you so much!
Glad I found your channel. I learned a ton and also your maps really helped me get the area of damage / fire in perspective. Thank you.
You are providing the best and most insightful information about the Caldor Fire. Thank you very, very much.