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    The "Godfather" of COAR Great-Kazoo's Avatar
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    Default Canadian fire insanity

    Surprised no thread (that i could find with ADVANCE SEARCH) on this crazy fire.


    http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/04/world/...ada/index.html

    evacuation of about 88,000 people, including the entire city of Fort McMurray, 88K trying to fless at one time.

    Are they going the wrong way, each side of the road ask of the other. This is why IF something happened and peopel were bugging out The mountains would be the last place we'd be heading.

    Unsure of number of folks who fled north. Only to find that 2 lane road was cut off


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    I've been following this on Facebook. Wildfire is a terrifying thing- despite the recent snows and such, make sure you have supplies in your vehicle and a viable plan to get out of dodge.
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    One hell of a fire, eh.

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    After being way too close for comfort to the Black Forest fire, I'm glad I live in the middle of an open farm field out here. Good reason to start talking about preparedness.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HoneyBadger View Post
    After being way too close for comfort to the Black Forest fire, I'm glad I live in the middle of an open farm field out here. Good reason to start talking about preparedness.

    Who needs to worry about forest fires, when there's earthquakes to watch out for.
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    I was never much into the high speed gardening that is wildland firefighting but was S130/S190 (Basic Wildland Firefighter) certified. The biggest takeaway with wildland or urban interface areas is mitigation. It helps with smaller fires and in bigger fires, firefighters will try to save houses with good mitigation by the homeowner. They perform structure triage, usually even before hand, to determine which houses they will try and save. So do some mitigation.

    Next, and this is not just with fire, but get out sooner rather than later. Learn about the hazards near you and develop trigger points for when to evacuate. You may not have time for someone to tell you to leave, so figure it out for yourself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ray1970 View Post
    One hell of a fire, eh.
    Yah, eh.
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    Aw, soory 'bout yer city burnin' down der, eh?
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