Built a pool

[CoronaRaptor]

Yesterday, my employers house was nearly burned down from a wildfire here in Osoyoos. The video on Global of the fire retardant being dropped very near a house was his. We were using shovels and a helicopter showed up also to help slow the fire as it raced up the hill. That drop of fire retardant from the plane was JUST in time with some of the spray landing on his deck, pool and us. They did 5 passes on the area right beside the house with the plane. Three helicopters were also on it. The trees went up like gasoline with intense heat. If it would have got into the trees on the south side I don't think any houses would be there now.
Didn't get much chance for pics.... was too busy. My hands are blistered from the shovel with no gloves.
Helicopter water drop during mop up. a distant shot and the deck and area with a fresh coat of fire retardant red.
We were lucky ....

My aunts house is outside of Lytton but was spared, unlike those other poor people.

Yes, I seen that on the news, you guys were so lucky they had resources available. Suppose to be lightning storms the next two days, there’s going to be so many new fires with how dry it is. We have a box of stuff sitting by the front door to grab, that and the dog if a fire gets close to here. Glad you all made it through that fire.

 

[CoronaRaptor]

Holyshit.. that is wild out there. Any measures that can be taken?

There isn’t much you can do. I have my sprinklers on everyday to keep my grass wet. Most fires are human caused or by lightning. Two weeks ago we had a fire just up the street, a guys house caught on fire and it spread into the trees like crazy, luckily they got a helicopter to drop buckets on it, not as bad as the one in Osoyoos.

 

[Donovan]

Its not funny, but I find it hilarious that we want to go to the moon (again, maybe pending your beliefs), and we have an SR71 BLACKBIRD doing over Mach3, but can't prevent a fire from creeping upon a specified area.

Cool.

Perhaps a massive fire suppressant system. Much like the sprinklers but sprays 10X the amount of fluid and the fluid is actually fire suppressant fluid, just like in the fire extinguisher. Yes, it would cost about 50,000 to install. But how much do you like your house and are willing to live in areas that have regular fires (Cali)?

 

[MurderedOutSVT]

Biggest problem with Cali is the unwillingness to remove fuel build up.

 

[CoronaRaptor]

Its not funny, but I find it hilarious that we want to go to the moon (again, maybe pending your beliefs), and we have an SR71 BLACKBIRD doing over Mach3, but can't prevent a fire from creeping upon a specified area.

Cool.

Perhaps a massive fire suppressant system. Much like the sprinklers but sprays 10X the amount of fluid and the fluid is actually fire suppressant fluid, just like in the fire extinguisher. Yes, it would cost about 50,000 to install. But how much do you like your house and are willing to live in areas that have regular fires (Cali)?

We have huge water bombers but they rarely get used because they cost a fortune, sometimes this is somewhat political, etc. The biggest problem in our area and parts of Cali are the high winds, the fire spreads so fast and flies through the air, it can miss your house but destroy every house around you. That fire in Lytton destroyed that town in a matter of minutes because of the high winds that converge in the valley where two rivers meet. Side note, it looks like that fire was caused by a moving train that had a fire under it as it went through the town.

 

[Donovan]

So it must be the fuel that it takes to get the water bombers up?

Because WATER for those purposes can be made free. Have the worlds biggest diggers dig a massive watering hole for that purpose only. I dunno, ****, anything vs losing homes.

 

[TAC71]

Speculation is a cigarette started it since it began just at the side of the highway. I live in town but I still have a pump to use my pool water for fighting a fire, just in case. If I lived in that kind of area I would have fire breaks and 2 good pumps, one for the pool and one for a tank mounted at the high point. At least you could try to save it.....but no building is worth your life.

 

[CoronaRaptor]

So it must be the fuel that it takes to get the water bombers up?

Because WATER for those purposes can be made free. Have the worlds biggest diggers dig a massive watering hole for that purpose only. I dunno, ****, anything vs losing homes.

There is a water bomber over on Vancouver Island that is one of the largest in the world for fighting forest fires, it is used all over the world. I've seen the news media (believe what you want from this) talking with the owner and the maintenance costs and whatever he charges must be really high as they weren't using his plane for a fire last year or the year before when it was out of control. It wasn't for here, it was either Australia or Cali. If I had to guess, he probably charges close to a million just to get off the ground.

 

[CoronaRaptor]

Speculation is a cigarette started it since it began just at the side of the highway. I live in town but I still have a pump to use my pool water for fighting a fire, just in case. If I lived in that kind of area I would have fire breaks and 2 good pumps, one for the pool and one for a tank mounted at the high point. At least you could try to save it.....but no building is worth your life.

Funny thing about Lytton being the hot spot all of those days, when I seen it was 51c one day at your place. We got 2 hours of rain here yesterday

 

[GordoJay]

There's a cousin of my GF's that lives not too far from us in a small town, her husband installed a urinal in his back yard and it drains into the ground, ummm, no thanks! LOL

Sorry about getting this thread back on track, but the back yard IS a urinal ... ask my wife.