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  • Опубликовано: 28 дек 2024

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  • @geraldswanson
    @geraldswanson 3 года назад +50

    Used to swing the ol’ Pulaski myself. WAs harder work than I experienced in 4+ years in the Marines. These wildland firefighters deserve our respect, gratitude and much more money

    • @MelindaGreen
      @MelindaGreen 2 года назад +2

      I did it too for 3 seasons. First two were fun. By the third I didn't care if it all burned, so I got out. Frankly I thought it paid really well for being just a kid, but couldn't see making it a career. Probably the problem now is that all the crews are spread so thin. That should drive up the wages and and attract more workers.

    • @williammcgee4690
      @williammcgee4690 9 месяцев назад

      10 years.

    • @williammcgee4690
      @williammcgee4690 9 месяцев назад

      10 years. Thank you brother.

  • @Riehentar
    @Riehentar 3 года назад +54

    thank god for firemen and volunteers for helping fight back forest fires. I pray for their safety and thank them for their hard work

    • @fifen1846
      @fifen1846 3 года назад

      Don't worry they get paid very well.

    • @spark_6710
      @spark_6710 3 года назад

      @@fifen1846 Not enough !! You should watch what happened to the 911 1st responders,firefighters !! Many firefighters get lung cancers & their medical insurances don't cover much at all !!

    • @spark_6710
      @spark_6710 3 года назад

      I agree 👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎵🎶💕💞

    • @fifen1846
      @fifen1846 2 года назад

      @derpAcola I'm talking about forest firefighters. A hotshot position can easily make $40k in just 6 months (fire season). Now that the federal minimum wage is $15hr. That will go up even more. Most firefighters doing forest fire fighting are blm or forest service. They work 16hr+ days. Plus hazard and overtime. Yeah they make good money

    • @fifen1846
      @fifen1846 2 года назад

      @@spark_6710 look at my above reply. Also while I do think we should have socialized medical. The federal health care BCBS is pretty good. Breathing smoke isn't good. But the smoke they breath is much more natural than a house fire

  • @BOBOB148314831
    @BOBOB148314831 3 года назад +30

    Love the closed captioning about Disney animation and rendering.

    • @sunflowergurl1549
      @sunflowergurl1549 3 года назад +1

      Okay wtf glad I wasn't the only one that had those lol

    • @IHJB666
      @IHJB666 3 года назад +1

      Coco 😂

  • @AR-wn5vg
    @AR-wn5vg 3 года назад +15

    We need benefits. We have no medical or dental, no 401K nothing. Structure Fire Fighters start out at 60 grand. We may make $35,000-$40,000 if we are lucky. This needs to change.

    • @smedspets695
      @smedspets695 3 года назад

      Welcome to the slightly above everyone else club although hard to believe no medical

    • @dustybottoms2780
      @dustybottoms2780 3 года назад

      You have access to all that. Not like it’s free, you have to pay for that.

    • @tarunbasra8230
      @tarunbasra8230 3 года назад +3

      @@dustybottoms2780 not in a civilized country

    • @dustybottoms2780
      @dustybottoms2780 3 года назад

      @@tarunbasra8230 yeah well, keep dreaming for free health care and free money

  • @dominicrobertson7626
    @dominicrobertson7626 3 года назад +11

    Surely allowing smaller controlled fires to burn the fuel on the ground would be a better option, rather than letting it accumulate

    • @KILLKING110
      @KILLKING110 3 года назад +3

      You have to keep in mind people in big cities think they know best and since thats where policies are dictated the people in the cities have dictated that controled burns be banned at the cost of the real victims of fire in the country side.

    • @fifen1846
      @fifen1846 3 года назад +4

      @@KILLKING110 you got a few things wrong here. First they aren't called controlled fires anymore since fire can't be controlled. Now they are called prescribed fires.
      Also the locals always put up fusses and won't let prescribe fires. OP is right. We need more of them. But small towns don't want to risk it getting out of control or getting more smoke. In reality we need to do them to prevent mega fires. Most prescribe fires happen in the spring and fall time to try and prevent them from getting out of hand. They also try to keep them small.

    • @ramonbs6075
      @ramonbs6075 9 месяцев назад

      @@fifen1846fire can be controlled

    • @ramonbs6075
      @ramonbs6075 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@fifen1846if fire cannot be controlled, then firefighters are useless.
      People need to consume the natural firewood that trees are making year by year, in the winter if its possible (it depends on the region).

    • @williammcgee4690
      @williammcgee4690 9 месяцев назад

      You pretty much described policy.

  • @feedmyeyes8854
    @feedmyeyes8854 3 года назад +10

    Only you can prevent forest fires - Smokey The Bear

    • @VideoNOLA
      @VideoNOLA 3 года назад +3

      His name is Smokey Bear. No "the". The more you know...! :-D

  • @Jesussavedme
    @Jesussavedme 3 года назад +14

    Man talk about hard labor!! These guys need a raise big time 😳

    • @dertythegrower
      @dertythegrower 3 года назад +2

      They are paid well, its just funding that gets cut short from lawmakers with little brains

    • @Epiz76
      @Epiz76 3 года назад

      Yea, I'd love to know where the woman are, Laura.

    • @abouttime2569
      @abouttime2569 3 года назад +1

      @@Epiz76 you really making this a gender topic? Are you serious?

    • @Epiz76
      @Epiz76 3 года назад

      @@abouttime2569 My comment triggers you?

    • @abouttime2569
      @abouttime2569 3 года назад

      @@Epiz76 not really triggered since your opinion doesnt even make sense to begin with. Im just really surprised how dumb a person can be. That is why i commented.

  • @DaveWasHere112
    @DaveWasHere112 3 года назад +9

    You have my best wishes, thank you for continuing your hard work!

  • @i-likemy-space7729
    @i-likemy-space7729 5 месяцев назад +3

    A string trimmer with solid blades would throw the fuel to the side until you hit dirt or rock.
    Much more efficient use of water and calories.

    • @astrusis_dantis3655
      @astrusis_dantis3655 27 дней назад +1

      Ah ye, another sofa expert teaching professionals.

    • @i-likemy-space7729
      @i-likemy-space7729 26 дней назад

      @@astrusis_dantis3655Fossil powered gardening and farming equipment replaced human labor over a century ago.
      But not every human can equate the advantages. A gasoline lawn mower and garden tiller could replace 20 pulaskis.
      A propane weed burner and 2 HP backpack leaf blower could replace a dozen humans with drip torches.

    • @astrusis_dantis3655
      @astrusis_dantis3655 26 дней назад

      @@i-likemy-space7729 have you ever been in nature? For example deep in the forests for many hours?

    • @i-likemy-space7729
      @i-likemy-space7729 26 дней назад

      @@astrusis_dantis3655 Yes, with gasoline chainsaws, generators, electric chainsaws, tractors, 4x4 vehicles, and knobby tired dirt bike motorcycles.
      Work smarter, not harder.

    • @astrusis_dantis3655
      @astrusis_dantis3655 26 дней назад

      @@i-likemy-space7729 how will you dig a trench in a forest with a fuck'n chainsaw? And how will you move tractor without cutting half of a forest? Good luck sitting on sofa and telling professionals how to do their job.

  • @dukeysnider
    @dukeysnider 3 года назад +5

    As the cost of wildfires, water shortages and crop failures increase perhaps this idea will have a following: Every year the Missouri and Mississippi rivers flood hundreds of cities and farms across the Midwest. Why not build large pipelines to pump that floodwater to the drought prone Southwest? That's not considering the cost of the flood damage.

    • @williammcgee4690
      @williammcgee4690 9 месяцев назад

      It would be great if lines could actually be built that long.

  • @kanetheviking
    @kanetheviking 2 месяца назад +1

    anybody got tips for me going into my first season?

  • @brianrk1944
    @brianrk1944 10 месяцев назад +2

    Shows the close up way fires are battled!! Thank you.

  • @boring.doerings
    @boring.doerings 3 года назад +2

    My brothers crew from Alaska are down there… these guys are Hero’s!

  • @Richie016
    @Richie016 3 года назад +9

    Rescue ops firefighters work with a strategy to put down active wildfires.

  • @fire_1209
    @fire_1209 2 года назад +2

    Saw my fire crew and myself on this video

  • @vasaaviarion
    @vasaaviarion 2 месяца назад

    I put out my first brush fire yesterday and I think I found my calling. Give me a shovel and sign me up

  • @dustylense
    @dustylense 3 года назад +3

    Funny...if you allowed controlled burns BEFORE the wildfire, the fire wouldn't be so wild..... Just thinking out loud!

    • @fifen1846
      @fifen1846 3 года назад

      Hey, you have a good point. But they are called prescribed fires now. Since the Forest Service realized no one can control fires. Source: I have family working for Forest Service and on fires

    • @frankblangeard8865
      @frankblangeard8865 4 месяца назад

      @@fifen1846 non-prescription fires are over the counter fires

  • @itsOnlyPIYUSH
    @itsOnlyPIYUSH 3 года назад +2

    This makes me remind about the worker's working after Cherbonyl Disaster . Saving the World 😉😊

  • @thedave2156
    @thedave2156 3 года назад +3

    'Atta boy, McMike! Kick some fire's as!

  • @critters16
    @critters16 3 года назад +2

    "decades to come back" Thank you for this important reporting.

  • @niteshsingh4177
    @niteshsingh4177 3 года назад

    Seems like you messed up with the captions buddy.

  • @texasnationalists9727
    @texasnationalists9727 3 года назад +8

    Instead of passing out free money to everyone, try investing in your forests.

    • @greenleavesofsummer9673
      @greenleavesofsummer9673 3 года назад

      And money going to crappy politicians like Pelosi, waters.

    • @Epiz76
      @Epiz76 3 года назад

      McConnell, Gowdy and Gaetz are too busy buying off companies.

    • @dankyjoker
      @dankyjoker 3 года назад

      They all need to join a Roblox server and find a nice long cliff and take a dive.

  • @victorofiesh2134
    @victorofiesh2134 6 месяцев назад

    Noticed no water, or hoses like the Tahoe Fire Crew proclaim to have.

  • @tigerarmy6018
    @tigerarmy6018 3 года назад +4

    Question is, what it takes to maintain your forestry so you don't end up with Wildfires... California needs the help and answers...

  • @spark_6710
    @spark_6710 3 года назад +2

    A great story ! Huge respects for those firefighters !! They need more & better health insurance coverages & supports from the government & people !!! 👏👏👏👍👍👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎵🎶💕💞

  • @yuridiaguzman1583
    @yuridiaguzman1583 5 месяцев назад

    Is it too much work to maintain all that dry grass and debris they should have a crew there maintaining places like this

  • @tfoz2235
    @tfoz2235 3 месяца назад

    Oh the irony of filming a show about the devestation and horror of wildfires, while filming a part of fire that is doing all good things. Where this,was filmed, was a low intensity, perfect conditions fire. Backing, low flame lengths, cleaning up pine needles and litter on the forest floor. Show me you dont know much about wildland fires without telling me.

  • @butthep3242
    @butthep3242 3 года назад

    The subtitle is not for this video. It is about the Toy story cartoon or another video about animation industry

  • @wanasayangnuk9885
    @wanasayangnuk9885 3 года назад

    please wait for me
    everyone please be strong
    patiently wait for me
    days of suffering
    from the epidemic
    disaster that happened
    with our world
    I'm going and going to the destination
    to protect everyone
    and tell you
    I never thought
    Even leaving you guys.

  • @dertythegrower
    @dertythegrower 3 года назад +1

    Good dudes

  • @aktrapper6126
    @aktrapper6126 2 года назад +5

    If they would bring back selective logging we could prevent a lot of the really big fires.

    • @haruhisuzumiya6650
      @haruhisuzumiya6650 Год назад

      Logging wouldn't fix the underlying issue with dry brush controlled blazes burn the fuel needed to sustain a bushfire but it is only one aspect of fire fighters in Australia bushfire season and that's unbelievably severe

  • @Meghnaaad
    @Meghnaaad 5 месяцев назад

    Where are those who say Trees store carbon?
    Yes they do store it but for how long?

  • @didine256
    @didine256 3 года назад +5

    There lungs, between the fire smokes and the dirt particulates, they take a hit!

    • @Epiz76
      @Epiz76 3 года назад

      Men are awesome

  • @bionicman1921
    @bionicman1921 3 года назад +1

    Only 2,000 firefighters
    You need 20,000

    • @Epiz76
      @Epiz76 3 года назад

      We can promote it in the Target stores. Maybe some strong, independent women will volunteer 😒

  • @alexko3181
    @alexko3181 2 года назад

    Рюкзаков с водой нет...

  • @smedspets695
    @smedspets695 3 года назад +3

    Get a few people ripping around on dirt bikes you can make some long dirt patches

  • @stevekissel605
    @stevekissel605 3 года назад +1

    Manage the forest. Why have good timber die on the ground when u can harvest the tree before it dies.

    • @blackalgorithmist000
      @blackalgorithmist000 3 года назад +1

      there's already a vast shortage in workers and volunteers to contain fires now you want to redirect able bodies to scavenging trees?

    • @stevekissel605
      @stevekissel605 3 года назад +1

      @@blackalgorithmist000 I'm taking about logging and managing the forest. It's hard to put out fires when everything is out of control. Relax

    • @blackalgorithmist000
      @blackalgorithmist000 3 года назад

      @@stevekissel605 my fault 😂

    • @SineEyed
      @SineEyed 3 года назад +3

      @@stevekissel605 take another look at the part where he says it looks like graveyard. That patch of land he's on was obviously a logging operation--and a relatively recent one too. Look at all the flat-topped stumps; fire doesn't do that, and neither do firemen. Look how spaced out everything is. Look at all the patches of undisturbed dirt. All those things should indicate to you that there was very little fuel here for the forest fire to consume. A strip-cut stretch of land like that is about as clean as a forest could possibly be. But everything we see is burned regardless.
      What stronger evidence would you need to see that your logging and forest management theory is bunk? What better proof could there be that you're wrong? Staring right at you is a perfectly cleaned plot of land--and not insignificant in size either--that didn't do a damned thing against the progress of that fire..

    • @stevekissel605
      @stevekissel605 3 года назад

      @@SineEyed relax just a covrtsation. There is so much timber out there. 9 out of 10 it's property that's not taking care of. That's all I'm saying. All good

  • @johnnybbgunner2136
    @johnnybbgunner2136 3 года назад

    Impossible!

  • @tfs4499
    @tfs4499 6 месяцев назад

    Boots on the ground! 👍🏻👍🏻

  • @greenleavesofsummer9673
    @greenleavesofsummer9673 3 года назад

    Funds are stretched thin thanks to Lawmakers HANDS in our POCKETS.

  • @jorgeherrera1075
    @jorgeherrera1075 2 года назад

    Omg what a job

  • @Kredo800
    @Kredo800 3 года назад

    This is true hero, not a batman or spiderman or any other dull actor from movie.

  • @WORDversesWORLD
    @WORDversesWORLD 3 года назад

    No different than building a house with a hammer and a saw!

    • @philipduttonlescorlett
      @philipduttonlescorlett 2 года назад +1

      Eh?

    • @WORDversesWORLD
      @WORDversesWORLD 2 года назад

      @@philipduttonlescorlett Its manual labor.

    • @philipduttonlescorlett
      @philipduttonlescorlett 2 года назад

      @@WORDversesWORLD Yes, as is cleaning floors but these guys are risking their lives and saving others. Bit of a difference!

    • @WORDversesWORLD
      @WORDversesWORLD 2 года назад

      @@philipduttonlescorlett Nah there ain't no difference, there's risk in everything we do.

    • @philipduttonlescorlett
      @philipduttonlescorlett 2 года назад

      Then danger money should not exist?

  • @secondarycontainment4727
    @secondarycontainment4727 3 года назад +7

    So you are saying that REMOVING FUEL LOAD is the solution? I remember when all of you thought Donald Trump was a psycho for suggesting that.

    • @FUCKINGENIOUS
      @FUCKINGENIOUS 3 года назад

      They never learn.

    • @zoravar.k7904
      @zoravar.k7904 3 года назад +2

      Yeah you can't rake an entire forest. Not even the Finnish are capable of that. And removing brush preemptively is of little use as it just tends to grow back before the fire.

  • @VideoNOLA
    @VideoNOLA 3 года назад

    Goodbye, lungs!

  • @tarajackson5814
    @tarajackson5814 2 месяца назад

    Hey my name is Tara when I first started fighter fighter I was 21 now I'm 22 but I just graduated from firefighter October the 26th what is 20/204

  • @eskibileyci198
    @eskibileyci198 3 года назад

    what about turkey cmon

  • @Cachi287
    @Cachi287 2 года назад +1

    shouldn't they need a respirator?

  • @ZaBUSSAKILLEM
    @ZaBUSSAKILLEM 5 месяцев назад

    I swear firefighters and woodland firefighters aren’t worth a thing. They don’t make a difference

  • @texasrobotaxi2727
    @texasrobotaxi2727 3 года назад +2

    We need better forest management. This is all avoidable and constant reactionary firefighting won't solve the problem.

  • @revit4909
    @revit4909 3 года назад

    :( imagine 20 years from now

    • @haruhisuzumiya6650
      @haruhisuzumiya6650 Год назад

      Why imagine, just look at Australian bushfire season and weep😂

  • @Arnoux007
    @Arnoux007 3 года назад

    Has a nation “ we need more Ariel support from up above ! 100 planes & sky crane an much much more

  • @jim-qz7up
    @jim-qz7up 3 года назад

    a job to be replaced by robots

  • @bbt305
    @bbt305 3 года назад +2

    If it takes so long to recover, how come every year they get bigger? (Legit question, no sarcasm)

    • @abouttime2569
      @abouttime2569 3 года назад +3

      Dont take my word for it but i heard a lot of areas in the world are getting drier each year. So the fire spreads faster and easier, which makes it harder to put out.

    • @guillermosanchez4849
      @guillermosanchez4849 3 года назад +2

      Because wildlifes are natural and the dry dead material Piles up because we keep putting them out.

    • @donnaking1809
      @donnaking1809 3 года назад

      Ask the most high Yah. Better yet read what He say about these times. This is not the end of it. There is more to come and more floods. I believe Yah is tired of wickedness.

    • @zoravar.k7904
      @zoravar.k7904 3 года назад

      The brush comes back quickly and droughts are spreading to forests not used to fires. This enables large patches of land to catch fire and spread.

    • @bbt305
      @bbt305 3 года назад

      @@zoravar.k7904 but once that area is afflicted by the ravenous fires 🔥you wont have from one year to the next large amounts of fuel since all was burned to a crisp and new trees take decades. How do the same cities have the same fires if the fuel was burned away?

  • @Dularr
    @Dularr 3 года назад +1

    Easy. It's called select logging to remove failing trees. Controlled burns to remove dead underbrush, while strengthen the trees.

    • @dertythegrower
      @dertythegrower 3 года назад

      Ok.. you pay..

    • @Dularr
      @Dularr 3 года назад

      @@dertythegrower I do, it's called federal income tax. Through the bureau of land management. It's not about who pays, it's about who is stopping the landowners from managing their properties.

  • @morecringe89
    @morecringe89 3 года назад +1

    Are we sure we want to save California?

  • @theperipateticaccrescent7685
    @theperipateticaccrescent7685 3 года назад +2

    But he's breathing smoke, as bad as cigarettes or maybe even worse!

  • @andrewwarcstor
    @andrewwarcstor 2 года назад

    Why you doing this let it burn we got more lands

  • @leesweather9894
    @leesweather9894 3 года назад

    Don't worry. Trump & Republicans said it will get cool.

  • @GauravJain-mg2iw
    @GauravJain-mg2iw 3 года назад

    Iam heee from yesterday man 😂😂

  • @donnaking1809
    @donnaking1809 3 года назад

    These fires will not be contained or controlled. These fires are meant to do exactly what they're doing. You have no power here. Not this time. Hallelujah.

    • @acidset
      @acidset 3 года назад

      You skipped your pills Karen

    • @donnaking1809
      @donnaking1809 3 года назад

      @@acidset No Ken, you are delusional

    • @donnaking1809
      @donnaking1809 3 года назад

      @@acidset Forgot your METH.

  • @killershootin6934
    @killershootin6934 3 года назад

    How to contain fires: "Hire more pilots"

    • @fifen1846
      @fifen1846 3 года назад +3

      Air support doesn't contain the fire. It help manage it. But not contain

    • @haruhisuzumiya6650
      @haruhisuzumiya6650 Год назад

      Digging trenches will be a countermeasure but don't go betting the barn on it

  • @Kale-Sims
    @Kale-Sims 3 года назад

    He could be putting out the fire instead hes just adding dirt... seems useless

    • @SineEyed
      @SineEyed 3 года назад +1

      ikr like, how has he kept his job for 33 years when he obviously doesn't know what he's doing?.. 🙄

    • @Epiz76
      @Epiz76 3 года назад +1

      Grow a brain, Kale. It's near impossible to utilise time extinguishing a fire. Ever been camping?? You would have to stay in the same spot for hours....

  • @MrJdebest
    @MrJdebest 3 года назад +2

    Donald J Trump says that you should rake the forest floor so this won't happen. ( the J is for genius)

    • @k333rl
      @k333rl 3 года назад +7

      you know that's actually a real thing and that it works right?

    • @secondarycontainment4727
      @secondarycontainment4727 3 года назад +4

      he was talking about REMOVING FUEL LOAD... literally what they were doing here with CONTROLLED BURNS.

    • @FUCKINGENIOUS
      @FUCKINGENIOUS 3 года назад +1

      Well one thing is for sure you sir are no genius

    • @MrJdebest
      @MrJdebest 3 года назад

      @@k333rl Hmmm, California has 33 million acres of forest . Alaska has 91 million acres of forest. So what size of work force are you going to need ? PS: Your great leader Trump is going to jail for inciting violence. 👍

    • @k333rl
      @k333rl 3 года назад +1

      @@MrJdebest just a couple weeks ago they were able to mobilize hundreds of firefighters to fight the fires. And this has nothing to do with Trump, though nice to see that someone's still obsessed with him other than the media.

  • @jlee8611
    @jlee8611 3 года назад

    This is all for show. I doubt modern people have the capability to stop forest fire.

    • @stevenirving6096
      @stevenirving6096 3 года назад +1

      And that is why the crew I'm on (and many others for that matter) have responded to over 50 fires so far this summer and kept them all under 100 acres... you only hear about the big ones because they are the only ones people care about

  • @eugenelayton5231
    @eugenelayton5231 3 года назад

    The largest wildfires were in Democrat-led cities last year.

  • @mr.chuckleteeth4382
    @mr.chuckleteeth4382 Год назад

    All them heroes!!!

  • @motherfrickncactus9331
    @motherfrickncactus9331 3 года назад

    Is no one talking about the captions? Lol

    • @Epiz76
      @Epiz76 3 года назад

      We're all in awe at the tough job these men are doing.....get a life