Great footage Thanks for what you yourself put up with getting it Watching from Alberta Canada where we just had a big fire go through our Jasper Park town And still throughout the National Park
This is the single most important fight of the fire. The weakest most narrow point between the massive Chico creek canyon and butte creek canyon system. This spot was CRITICAL to prevent crossing and not only did you save my home I can’t afford insurance on in this state but likely forest ranch and magalia if not also paradise
Hey Brett,thank you so much for covering this fire. I know how good you are at reporting and photography from watching you chase tornados. I live in California but have family all over the country
I've gotta wonder what kind of shape these guys' lungs are in. Apart from the fire danger, it's hazardous duty just from a respiratory perspective. All glory and gratitude to these guys. This is one of the few areas wherein the state is actually providing the service of government-protecting lives and other property-as opposed to legalized theft, stomping freedoms, and otherwise being an enemy of the people. Politicians are scum, but these guys put themselves in harm's way for us. They're real heroes.
@@Vito_Tuxedo When I was the Superintendent on a 20 person hotshot crew back in the early 2000’s we did a NIOSH (national institute for occupational safety and health) smoke study where they measured our lung function at the beginning of the season and during two separate fire assignments during the season on a daily basis as well as wearing CO monitors and measuring particulate output. Mostly they found that the smoke does affect your lungs during the season but by the next season most people’s lungs had recovered. Their disclaimer about their study was that it needed to be longer term and not just over a 4 year period. There is a fair amount of evidence that over the long term smoke does effect your lung function but on some people less and other more.
I have a bad cough all the time. I sometimes smell smoke for no reason and sometimes i remember what fire i was on for a specific smoke smell. Kind like flashbacks, weird.
@@JH-kn6rt There are other studies out there that show fire smoke does cause long term damage. I would think some people are more susceptible than others like as with anything.
@johnmontgomery3174"there isn't adequate funding for fuel reduction" that's because our government has wasted billions on Ukraine and trans surgeries for the military etc. Climate change is a bogus argument, it's simply a ploy by the Left for carbon taxes.
Not much you can do to prevent someone from pushing their burning car into a brush filled ravine on a hot and windy day when fire danger is high. Plus you can look at the undergrowth and dead and down along that road to know that at least in this location there hasn’t been any fuels mitigation done. Plus Sierra Pacific lands which is private land ownership are not well managed to prevent fire spread. 100 years of successful initial attack firefighting has in some part led to this situation of large destructive fire on the landscape whereas in the past prior to us being here parts of the forest probably burned every 10 years or so keeping the undergrowth and ground litter “raked up”. Most of California is a fire dependent ecosystem.
@@newenglandcoast7121 It’s interesting if you go to forests like parts of the Gila Wilderness in NM where they have managed fires for resource benefits ie. allowed them to more or less roam across the landscape or some National Parks like Yosemite, Sequoia or Grand Canyon where they have done a lot of prescribed burning as well as allowing natural fire to roam you get more of an open stand of trees that are by and large devoid of that heavy deadfall and undergrowth (the undergrowth creates ladder fuels that allow fire to enter the 3rd dimension increasing fire behavior. Obviously this cannot be done everywhere because the public just does not tolerate smoke, or their proximity to homes, plus the high risk of bad outcomes. I know in the Midwest all our National Park units like Wind Cave, Buffalo River, Teddy Roosevelt, Missouri National River, Tallgrass Prairie we did lots of prescribed fire each year alternating between different units. At Buffalo National River there was one burn that was 14,000 acres in size and was burned every 5 or so years. So even in the Midwest we have fire dependent ecosystems. I remember doing a burn at Yosemite in and amongst the Tuolomne Grove of Giant Sequoias. So cool to use fire to help protect them. Plus Sequoia trees require fire to germinate their serotinous cones. Sorry for my pontificating and rambling on.
@@sp4604 oh some firefighters are quitting but more are joining. I worked as a hotshot for 23 years and 14 years longer in fire management and it paid pretty well. Although I didn’t live in CA where it is expensive to live. Maybe I didn’t get rich in $$ wealth but I lived okay and got to see mother nature’s as an agent of change on the landscape. I got to go to places that few people have ever stepped foot on and see them in a way that fewer others have seen them in. Not all fire is destructive and for most of the west the ecosystems rely on fire for a healthy system. It’s when the fires interact w/ homes when it gets bad. I’ve been on fires in many of the states of this nation. I know that there is legislation in congress to pay FF’s more money. Hopefully someday they will get a pay raise. Write your congress people and tell them to pay FF’s more money.
@@jasminelindros8923 by the way. Jesus is coming back so if u think this is bad u better get ready for what's to come. If u want to be saved all u have to do is repent ur sins to him. And believe
@@jasminelindros8923 1 John 4:1-21 [1]Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. [2]Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: [3]And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. [4]Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. [5]They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. [6]We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. [7]Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. [8]He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [9]In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. [10]Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. [11]Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. [12]No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. [13]Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. [14]And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. [15]Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. [16]And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. [17]Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. [18]There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. [19]We love him, because he first loved us. [20]If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? [21]And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
Waste of time, money, and man power. Focusing on forward spot fires, before the real blaze gets there, is a huge waste of time. Focus on life saving, structures, not wasted energy. If mother nature is not going to help you out, than you will never and i mean never, stop a fire. How do you prevent your house from flooding? You build on high ground away from water. How do you stop a forest fire? You pray the wind stops blowing and you get some rain. Other than that, a forest for will burn as long as it has fuel
I know that you mean well but FIRE M MANAGERS know what they are doing. Fires are extremely complex. Since you have the Crews there and can not touch the main fire you can do safe fuel reduction to prevent future fires. We now recognize that we need more money allocated for Fuel reduction which includes more Fire Crews like those you see. GOD BLESS them all. I have been there and done that many many times.
I live right down the road from this. This is the crossing at its most narrow between two major watersheds. If it crossed it would’ve spread to the most populated places in the entire fire. This manpower created miraculously an eastern flank they actually beat back and it would definitively NOT have happened had this critical moment happened. You’re obviously not local and local enough to know specific key points where manpower must be intensely allocated so your arrogance and opinion has nothing to do with facts on the ground. This is the most competently handled wildfire of this magnitude seen in this state.
That's a remarkably ignorant thing to say. A fire can, possibly, burn as long as it has fuel, but an asphalt road is a thin firebreak that has no fuel. If you put out any spot fires that jump that firebreak then the fire runs out of fuel and stops expanding.
One of the things fire managers know is that they have to create a high profile to get promoted and to attract money to the "cause". I wouldn't say that all fire managers are in it for money and promotion, but there are some. Their piers need to weed them out.
Great footage
Thanks for what you yourself put up with getting it
Watching from Alberta Canada
where we just had a big fire go through our Jasper Park town
And still throughout the National Park
This is the single most important fight of the fire. The weakest most narrow point between the massive Chico creek canyon and butte creek canyon system. This spot was CRITICAL to prevent crossing and not only did you save my home I can’t afford insurance on in this state but likely forest ranch and magalia if not also paradise
Thank you. Thank you.
God bless and protect them!!!🙏🏼
Hey Brett,thank you so much for covering this fire. I know how good you are at reporting and photography from watching you chase tornados. I live in California but have family all over the country
God bless all of you!
Great content thankyou stay safe❤️
First! Prayers from Florida! My hats off to those hardworking firefighters!
I was out there in my water tender filling engines on this slop over. It was quite a show.
Living in Illinois I am so glad we don’t get wild fires like California does. Those things are one of the strongest forces of nature on earth
I'll take wildfire threat over random tornadoes dropping down on my house. Guess it is whatever you are used to in your area. lol
I've gotta wonder what kind of shape these guys' lungs are in. Apart from the fire danger, it's hazardous duty just from a respiratory perspective. All glory and gratitude to these guys. This is one of the few areas wherein the state is actually providing the service of government-protecting lives and other property-as opposed to legalized theft, stomping freedoms, and otherwise being an enemy of the people. Politicians are scum, but these guys put themselves in harm's way for us. They're real heroes.
@@Vito_Tuxedo When I was the Superintendent on a 20 person hotshot crew back in the early 2000’s we did a NIOSH (national institute for occupational safety and health) smoke study where they measured our lung function at the beginning of the season and during two separate fire assignments during the season on a daily basis as well as wearing CO monitors and measuring particulate output. Mostly they found that the smoke does affect your lungs during the season but by the next season most people’s lungs had recovered. Their disclaimer about their study was that it needed to be longer term and not just over a 4 year period. There is a fair amount of evidence that over the long term smoke does effect your lung function but on some people less and other more.
I have a bad cough all the time. I sometimes smell smoke for no reason and sometimes i remember what fire i was on for a specific smoke smell. Kind like flashbacks, weird.
@@JH-kn6rt There are other studies out there that show fire smoke does cause long term damage. I would think some people are more susceptible than others like as with anything.
This is an annual thing. What is done for prevention? Honest question, not snark.
@johnmontgomery3174 Thanks for your input, I appreciate it!
@johnmontgomery3174"there isn't adequate funding for fuel reduction" that's because our government has wasted billions on Ukraine and trans surgeries for the military etc. Climate change is a bogus argument, it's simply a ploy by the Left for carbon taxes.
Not much you can do to prevent someone from pushing their burning car into a brush filled ravine on a hot and windy day when fire danger is high. Plus you can look at the undergrowth and dead and down along that road to know that at least in this location there hasn’t been any fuels mitigation done. Plus Sierra Pacific lands which is private land ownership are not well managed to prevent fire spread. 100 years of successful initial attack firefighting has in some part led to this situation of large destructive fire on the landscape whereas in the past prior to us being here parts of the forest probably burned every 10 years or so keeping the undergrowth and ground litter “raked up”. Most of California is a fire dependent ecosystem.
@@XAlpineSuptDN Thanks for that answer, I appreciate it! 👍👍
@@newenglandcoast7121 It’s interesting if you go to forests like parts of the Gila Wilderness in NM where they have managed fires for resource benefits ie. allowed them to more or less roam across the landscape or some National Parks like Yosemite, Sequoia or Grand Canyon where they have done a lot of prescribed burning as well as allowing natural fire to roam you get more of an open stand of trees that are by and large devoid of that heavy deadfall and undergrowth (the undergrowth creates ladder fuels that allow fire to enter the 3rd dimension increasing fire behavior. Obviously this cannot be done everywhere because the public just does not tolerate smoke, or their proximity to homes, plus the high risk of bad outcomes. I know in the Midwest all our National Park units like Wind Cave, Buffalo River, Teddy Roosevelt, Missouri National River, Tallgrass Prairie we did lots of prescribed fire each year alternating between different units. At Buffalo National River there was one burn that was 14,000 acres in size and was burned every 5 or so years. So even in the Midwest we have fire dependent ecosystems. I remember doing a burn at Yosemite in and amongst the Tuolomne Grove of Giant Sequoias. So cool to use fire to help protect them. Plus Sequoia trees require fire to germinate their serotinous cones. Sorry for my pontificating and rambling on.
its a losing battle every year that seems to get worse no wonder the FF are quitting
@@sp4604 oh some firefighters are quitting but more are joining. I worked as a hotshot for 23 years and 14 years longer in fire management and it paid pretty well. Although I didn’t live in CA where it is expensive to live. Maybe I didn’t get rich in $$ wealth but I lived okay and got to see mother nature’s as an agent of change on the landscape. I got to go to places that few people have ever stepped foot on and see them in a way that fewer others have seen them in. Not all fire is destructive and for most of the west the ecosystems rely on fire for a healthy system. It’s when the fires interact w/ homes when it gets bad. I’ve been on fires in many of the states of this nation. I know that there is legislation in congress to pay FF’s more money. Hopefully someday they will get a pay raise. Write your congress people and tell them to pay FF’s more money.
Does anybody else see that the ground is cracking? 🧐
How can anybody else "see" something that is not happening?
@@jasminelindros8923 it was in one spot. There were vehicles parked there and they moved 🙄😒
I don't reply to ignorance. Waist of time.
@@jasminelindros8923 by the way. Jesus is coming back so if u think this is bad u better get ready for what's to come. If u want to be saved all u have to do is repent ur sins to him. And believe
@@WatchwomanDavis Your delusions are severe, Davis, and you have lost touch with reality. Get help.
@@jasminelindros8923 1 John 4:1-21
[1]Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
[2]Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
[3]And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
[4]Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
[5]They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
[6]We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
[7]Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
[8]He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
[9]In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
[10]Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
[11]Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
[12]No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
[13]Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
[14]And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
[15]Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
[16]And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
[17]Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
[18]There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
[19]We love him, because he first loved us.
[20]If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
[21]And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
Waste of time, money, and man power. Focusing on forward spot fires, before the real blaze gets there, is a huge waste of time. Focus on life saving, structures, not wasted energy. If mother nature is not going to help you out, than you will never and i mean never, stop a fire. How do you prevent your house from flooding? You build on high ground away from water. How do you stop a forest fire? You pray the wind stops blowing and you get some rain. Other than that, a forest for will burn as long as it has fuel
I know that you mean well but FIRE M MANAGERS know what they are doing. Fires are extremely complex. Since you have the Crews there and can not touch the main fire you can do safe fuel reduction to prevent future fires. We now recognize that we need more money allocated for Fuel reduction which includes more Fire Crews like those you see. GOD BLESS them all. I have been there and done that many many times.
They are preventing it from crossing Highway 32. If it does, the fire will reach a major town
I live right down the road from this. This is the crossing at its most narrow between two major watersheds. If it crossed it would’ve spread to the most populated places in the entire fire. This manpower created miraculously an eastern flank they actually beat back and it would definitively NOT have happened had this critical moment happened. You’re obviously not local and local enough to know specific key points where manpower must be intensely allocated so your arrogance and opinion has nothing to do with facts on the ground. This is the most competently handled wildfire of this magnitude seen in this state.
That's a remarkably ignorant thing to say. A fire can, possibly, burn as long as it has fuel, but an asphalt road is a thin firebreak that has no fuel. If you put out any spot fires that jump that firebreak then the fire runs out of fuel and stops expanding.
One of the things fire managers know is that they have to create a high profile to get promoted and to attract money to the "cause". I wouldn't say that all fire managers are in it for money and promotion, but there are some. Their piers need to weed them out.
get off the camera and put some fires out.
You funny. Thanks for the chuckle.
@@JustaKubrickFan anytime!
@@swampysanta5445 he did w/ his boot.