09-29-2020, 08:32 PM
So far the predicted rain hasn't materialized in any meaningful amount. We're still in a severe drought. Supposedly rain is coming in tonight but the forecast has changed and we're predicted to get much less. We're in the area of the heaviest amount. I'll believe it when I see it in the rain gauge.
So in keeping with the drought a newly arrived person from the city decided to burn a huge brushpile today. On top of the drought and the forest being a tinderbox, it's also very windy today. No one in their right mind would think of burning ANYTHING(!). To consider burning a humongous brush pile is complete insanity. To hand out a burning permit should be criminal but my understanding is that he was able to obtain one. We came home today to smoke billowing up just a short distance away and the fire trucks coming up the road to get this gents cookies out of his fire. Over 2 hours later they're still there.
I question the mental balance of anyone who would issue a burning permit under these conditions, and just because someone got a burn permit that doesn't mean it should be done. City folk! Brainless moron! Absolutely no sense of responsibility or cause and effect! Yeah, I'm POed. No one likes to think they can leave and find their place burned to the ground because of some mindless act by someone who should still be in the city.
At least one of the responding fire vehicles is heading out as I write this.
I haven't been up there but their 5th wheel camping trailer was set up downwind from the brush pile. You'd think that would have given them a second to think since they owned it. I have no idea if it's still standing.
So in keeping with the drought a newly arrived person from the city decided to burn a huge brushpile today. On top of the drought and the forest being a tinderbox, it's also very windy today. No one in their right mind would think of burning ANYTHING(!). To consider burning a humongous brush pile is complete insanity. To hand out a burning permit should be criminal but my understanding is that he was able to obtain one. We came home today to smoke billowing up just a short distance away and the fire trucks coming up the road to get this gents cookies out of his fire. Over 2 hours later they're still there.
I question the mental balance of anyone who would issue a burning permit under these conditions, and just because someone got a burn permit that doesn't mean it should be done. City folk! Brainless moron! Absolutely no sense of responsibility or cause and effect! Yeah, I'm POed. No one likes to think they can leave and find their place burned to the ground because of some mindless act by someone who should still be in the city.
At least one of the responding fire vehicles is heading out as I write this.
I haven't been up there but their 5th wheel camping trailer was set up downwind from the brush pile. You'd think that would have given them a second to think since they owned it. I have no idea if it's still standing.