Southern Elk
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Looks like 5 or 6 straight days of rain coming for SW Montana. I’m sure we will be getting smoke from other places soon though.
2026 Wildfire
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Nameless Range
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I am related by way of marriage to someone who lives in a couple million dollar home on a mountainside surrounded by trees 10ft off the side of the house. Beautiful views. He built a pond and has a generator, and is under the impression that in the event of a wildfire, he will defend his home. I think for many fires, it's doable but dangerous. I've mentioned to him that Firefighters have burned up alongside tenders with a couple thousand gallons of water in them. For a fire like that, water would be futile. He should watch that clip.
Did the cabin survive?
I've been referencing this pretty cool web app by the western fire chief's association: https://wfca.com/fire-map Most fire apps all display the same info in different ways anymore, but this one is clean and gives a good overview of the west.
Irrelevant
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no idea about the cabin. There was a pretty significant defensible space around it.
Great map share, I was still using the MT DNRC map that you shared a few years ago because it was the best I'd seen, but I like this one even more.
Great map share, I was still using the MT DNRC map that you shared a few years ago because it was the best I'd seen, but I like this one even more.
marksjeep
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One of several due to lightning last night.
marksjeep
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Not good. Fires blew up to 28k acres in a day. Red flag conditions again today.
marksjeep
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We installed this camera on Friday. Crazy.
geetar
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They released the names today. I worked prescribed fire in North Carolina with Sydney Watson the 27 year old from the Rifle Helitack crew. An email was sent out to all our parks staff about her death today.
Salmonchaser
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I hate reading about these deaths, the lessons learned are always bitter. God bless their families.
Thankful we’ve had three days with a fair amount of rain in NE Oregon, it was very dry, very early here.
Thankful we’ve had three days with a fair amount of rain in NE Oregon, it was very dry, very early here.
The big problem is that the lessons are not learned. Sagebrush, PJ, and maybe 2 or 3 dwellings out there. It's going to be interesting to learn why the decision was made to drop a helitack crew off in that situation.
Salmonchaser
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My background is swat/police. I know here in Oregon the Govenor followed our massive fires from two and 4 years ago with an edict we need to get on top of fires more aggressively. When ever politicians get involved in tactical decisions people die unnecessarily. I don’t know what happened to those three but looking at a Map, it makes me wonder why the hell they stuck people in there, but again I’m just wondering I’ve got no other data than than that. After action reports are important but they rarely go very far up the chain.
