CA. Fires - What's wrong with the inspectors?

[Kurt Ullman]

I have a friend who used to be a smoke jumper and he said even in their high trained hands, "controlled" is a time sensitive description. One minute it is, the next is may not be.

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[Terry]

It looks like there are some strong indications that illegals have started at least some of the fires to create construction jobs for themselves.

[gfretwell]

It is 150 MPH here in Sw Florida. That is still about as strong as you get in the eye wall of all but the biggest hurricane and certainly more than enough for anyone not in the eye.

[gfretwell]

If it is that "built up" you should be able to control the fuel load on the ground.

[gfretwell]

It is funny that no matter what the argument is about, eventually it gets to global warming and illegals. I hear it was caused by a gay smoker with a Bush sticker on his SUV.

[Dave Bugg]

Who was hispanic and had just snuck across the Mexican border and had parked the SUV on a patch of dried brush.

[Terry]

They are stealing the relief food and water too.

[dpb]

Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't. All depends on how many come how quickly and what there is as a fuel source. If you're lucky the number is small enough you have sufficient resources to stay even.

If not, ...

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[Oren]

One report stated illegal immigration was down; near and around San Diego, due to the fires.

A local here, suggested all illegals go to SD for work.

-- Oren

"If things get any worse, I'll have to ask you to stop helping me."

[Chris Lewis]

According to HeyBub :

Alaska is no good. Earthquakes and tsunamis. By the time you factor in all of the risky areas (left coast, east coast, and everywhere else due to tornado, hurricane, fire, drought, ice storm, blizzard or earthquake), you end up trying to park almost

300 million Americans in Churchill Manitoba.

Which the Canadians might not like. As a Canadian, I wouldn't like...

Oh right, polar bears. That's no good either.

[Chris Lewis]

According to Kurt Ullman :

Indeed. Four forestry students were killed a few years back when the controlled burn set by professionals (and the students supervised by professionals) got out of hand and cut them off. Yet, everything was perfectly done by the book...

[Oren]

Somebody with a circa '70's Chevy and a hot catalytic converter. watch out for low-riders...

-- Oren

"I didn?t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you."

[HeyBub]

Tree-huggers won't let you. The forest service cannot, in the main, clear the forest floor. So doing might disturb the habitat of the Three-toed Salamander which is SO endangered no one's ever seen the critter.

[HeyBub]

Well, see, I'm in Houston. We don't have forest fires, tornadoes, tsunamis, snow days, or earthquakes. We DO have hurricanes, but those are universally viewed as an excuse to party.

[Harry K]

Right. Anecdotal but I have seen personally two fires started by cigs. One I came on just as it was getting started in the barrow ditch about 6 miles from the house. I had nothing to fight it with so beat feet to a phone. The other was right on my property edge. I wasn't aware of it until I saw all the flashing lights and trucks chasing it up my fence row.

Fires started by cigs are common and smokers are _not_ "some of the most responsible people....".

Harry K

[willshak]

on 10/26/2007 8:28 AM h said the following:

When hurricane Floyd hit NY back in Sept. 1999. It was the homeowners with chain saws that cleared the local roads before the highway department could get there. I was there with my chain saw, even though I had a 50 foot Wild Cherry down in my yard. We dumped the wood on the side of the road for the highway department to pick it up. There wasn't much left after the fireplace owners took most of it away.

[Oren]

I lived in Saranac Lake, NY for two winters (few miles from Lake Placid ).

Always seemed to me the snow plows found the downed trees on public roads first Employees could not get to work, thus needing to mandate overtime for the un-lucky person.

Maybe a few locals carried chainsaws, not everyone. A downed tree was good reason to call in to work

-- Oren

"The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!"

[Environment]

Don't worry about that. Cigarette smokers are some of the most responsible

You are full of crap the smokers are most irresponsible jerks that toes cigarettes out of windows while driving down the road and that is fact I leave in New Jersey and we have at least two to three fires every summer and there is no arsons on this part of hwy but traffic fling through and I saw same thing in other places so don't gave people some bulls because you are smoker

[SteveB]

And if you are so senseless that you don't understand the math of arsonists plus one hundred mile an hour winds equals disaster, anything I say wouldn't give you a clue as to what's going on.

This is a troll, right?

I thought so.

Adios. plonk

Steve