Living in the forest is like living in a matchbox. It's just a matter of time before it is lit.

@scttiedsntknow

5 жыл бұрын

Its just like living in a floodplain. Eventually your going to have to deal with it. But nobody thinks about it till its zero hour

@dbikekid2169

4 жыл бұрын

@@scttiedsntknow Nope we are well aware haha I recently defended my family's property from the Green wattle creek fire in new south wales Australia and expect to experience a few more fires in my life time. I do wonder how many people that buy houses with trees hanging right over the roof think about potential fire danger though, you can live in nature and still have some clear space around your home haha. Its a lifestyle and livelihood its not as simple as just moving everyone to the suburbs because of a potential fire risk.

Firefighters are brave, hard-working and amazing heroes. I had a friend who was a part-time firefighter. It is hard, dirty and dangerous work. I think of firefighters as dragon fighters. Everyone else runs away to save their lives, but the fire fighter runs toward the dragon and fights it. They earn every penny and much more. They are true heroes. God bless and protect these brave men and women. I can't think of anything more scary.

I can not even believe how many of these hero’s are volunteers! This is not a volunteer job they all deserve compensation.

In Australia people build in bush land all the time and local governments allow tree right up to the house. It makes it hard for fire fighters when people are aloud to build houses in fire prone areas and they aren’t made to have cleared areas around their houses.

@dbikekid2169

4 жыл бұрын

The fire fighters don't protect houses that they don't see as defendable anyway, they may in some cases because there legends but they don't have too. I recently defended my family's property from the green wattle creek fire in new south wales. IMO deny us people in fire prone areas insurance and help from firies before telling us we cant live there...… I ride dirt bikes so living on land where I can have my own tracks is awesome, wouldn't want to live in the city lol. Personally I wouldn't want a house with trees right on our doorstep , You can live in the bush and still have a small clear section of '' defendable space '' around your house but if people want to do that it should continue to be there choice. The sad thing is the risk of fire probably goes over a lot of peoples heads when picking a property.

We all wonder why these fires are getting worse and worse. It's not just climate change, that is a very small issue in the matter. Its the fact that when big city folks followed the settlers out West, big city folks said no to control burns and totally banned control burns. Because of that, the environment isnt able to properly manage itself, so vegetation built up and built up and now we are getting massive destructive wild fires. If we just bring back control burns, these types of fires would begin to disappear.

@bigben2639

5 жыл бұрын

While what you wrote sounded great and all, it's completely false. Controlled burns have not been banned. California conducts controlled burns every year. I think the size and scope of western US forest/grassland is much larger than you grasp.

@scttiedsntknow

5 жыл бұрын

Thats not true at all. The problem is controlled Burns cant keep up with the acreage. And they are burning well away from homes and communities. Which doesn't bode well when a fire does take off next to towns and houses

@chuckhorne4931

4 жыл бұрын

I really hope everyone enjoys and learns from this extensive play list. The fact is everybody has something to say and maybe 1% of people are qualified to make anykind of educated comments much less lecture the rest of us about what is wrong with California's wildland fire management In a state as diverse as California, full control is never going to happen so we need what we have, a dedicated group of people that take wildland management very serious. Believe it or not, Natural Resource Universities are full of dedicated men and women studying every aspect of fire science and fire behavior. The wild things have always been the hardest for civilization to control but no body gives up. It has to do with what kind of a life we are going to live. No one is going to put up with living in a serial flameproof city surrounded by miles of sand and concrete where all growing vegatation and for that matter all animals have been removed. That's not what human beings do and sometimes we get hurt. That's what is so great about learning, we don't have a perfect life but that's not what we want is it. The day everyone agrees about anything is hopefully my last day on Earth. And I know one thing, I love the outdoors and I love almost every plant and animal there is on Earth and no one is going to stop me from sitting in the woods in the mountains enjoying everykind of wildlife around a campfire all night long. It wasn't easy to come up with this collection of over 300 videos. Many were donated to me, others were signed over to me by news stations and reporters, I got others from nearly 100 firefighters and many victims of this fire season that lost their homes and some lost family members. And through it all, one thing never changes. While most of us do everything we can to avoid losing property and our homes and we greive for family members and wonder what could we have done. How much worse would it be if it wasn't for all those men and women running toward the danger. The New York firemen that I remember marching into the twin towers, the firemen that rescue us, our families and our property from all kinds of disasters, the forest and wilderness firefighters that protect our natural heratige and our cities, the policemen and first responders and the guys in the military. If they weren't running toward danger while we ran away, then what kind of a life would we have? Smile, there's a lot to be happy about.

They shall not be forgotten

Those 19 dead were the Yarnell Hills fire. You can do a search and they have good analyses of what happened on this site.

California and western forest is designed to burn and management agencies just realized that in 1989. Yellowstone. After forest management designed to not have any fires for decades to now, it comes down to fuel management. Add in the forest conservation that wants nothing touched, to water resource management, you have a drought and it's a perfect storm. Good luck.

How about examining what is going RIGHT reporter. What is right is the society we built, and our pledges to take care of each other. To raise our kids to become fine brave people. This documentary is respectful by and large and I thank you for it. Examining the cost of protecting our homes and our lives is a good thing. Reexamining what urban sprawl costs, not just in dollars, but in human lives. Especially as these fires do indeed keep growing and growing in size. My heart goes out to every firefighter and first responder and the families that support them. Here on earth or in heaven.

2:30 E 3 55, Rio Vista Fire Department, Solano Co., Ca What are the odds I see them here xD

I'm a volunteer the biggest fire I've seen was 4000 acres an it was much harder than I thought by the time we get past the road were it burned before it was so dry it keeps lighting an We get to the head of the fire an We be out of water had to get 1 helicopter an 2 air planes it took day to get it out I can't imagine goin an trying to fight a 1mil acer fire

@scttiedsntknow

5 жыл бұрын

Here in nd our biggest thing is grasslands fire. That can get got and hairy enough, I couldn't imagine having a whole dam wall of fire coming at you.

@priscillaross-fox9407

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for helping.

@Doobsnoob

4 жыл бұрын

Ther was 28000 hector fire in south african and the pepol got it out in a week bare in mind it was on the mountain and fire speeds faster up hill

10:45 you can build in a dense forest if do the right mitigations and take the right precautions

Cant believe they did this the same year the granite mountain hotshots died

I wish they would come to Wyoming and show the local departments fighting fire mostly mine and Weston County because Wyoming is one of the most efficient localized fire fighting operation ever California firefighter should come and train with us cuz I would be a hell of a lot more productive and safe

@dank9288639

5 жыл бұрын

you guys should come up next time its burning like hell then👍

@nateyonker7588

5 жыл бұрын

Conditions and local factors are much more challenging in California

@DiamorphineDeath

4 жыл бұрын

lol yeah dude, you county structure dudes should come out to California and tell us how to do it.

@georgehurst6663

3 жыл бұрын

I dare you to come to Arizona lol

These people loose so much. Insurance doesn't cover all of what they lose and some don't even have insurance of just have liability coverage on their cars.

the inmates are volunteers, not draftees.

One thing this documentary forget to mention is the biography. State and federal governments in the firefighting industry let's fire get to the level where they're at. I am a firefighter in Wyoming. Luckily where is mostly private land and we do not have to contact the federal government or the state for help Emily and extinguished please fire quickly and efficiently for the state and federal government will not

If people want to live in an area that is heavily forested they should take some responsibility when a fire happens. People shouldn't have to die because people want to build multi million dollar homes in a fire prone area.

@dbikekid2169

4 жыл бұрын

They don't have to help us if they don't want too, Id rather get denied help by fire fighters and insurance for living in a fire prone area then not being able to live there at all. I ride dirt bikes so living on property where I can have my own tracks is great. Houses are quite defendable if you have a bit of clearance ( grass area ) between your house and the woods, plus fire fighters normally only protect defendable houses, they generally don't walk themselves into death traps with trees right up to the house. I recently defended my family's property from the green wattle creek fire in new south wales Australia.

@priscillaross-fox9407

4 жыл бұрын

@@dbikekid2169 Did you personally pay for that home? I doubt you did but thought I'd ask anyway. No one would speak so nonchalantly about losing a home and no insurance to replace what their hard earned money had paid for. Fires create their own wind and there is nothing one can do when they blow fire onto houses after they have been evacuated from the area. Did you happen to see most of the northern California fire of November 2018? The people who lived there didn't have much of a chance to get out. They will NEVER state how many actually died but it was far more than the 80+ they claimed! Most of the trees around homes were left standing along with numerous PLASTIC items yet the homes were incinerated, wheels on cars MELTED. Even cars going down the street, trying to get out were burned along with the people inside them who were also incinerated. Homes burned from the inside out. Pets and wildlife died. If an entity wants homes out of the way that's what they will do.

@dbikekid2169

4 жыл бұрын

@Priscilla Ross-Fox Just because I have Kid in my KZread name it doesn't mean I am one, I'm well old enough to own my own house...... Even with insurance loosing a home would be such an inconvenient, upsetting and downright horrible situation. What can be replaced takes time, some things cant be replaced at all and it can set you back months or years, I have so much empathy for anyone in that situation. With that being said I was never talking '' Nonchalantly '' about loosing a home and not having insurance, I simply stated I would rather be denied insurance for living in a fire prone area then denied the right to live there at all, I wasn't downplaying the heartbreak of loosing your own home. We live in a high risk area for lighting strikes and after our house has been hit multiple times we have been told we have to move or will no longer be entitled to insurance so it can be done. Furthermore , I've watched countless documentary's on the California wild fires, I've experienced wild fire in person, and I live in Australia on some of the most fire prone land on earth where we have lost over 170 people to one single wild fire in the past and are currently experiencing the worst fires in the history of our state where entire townships close by to me, that I have friends living in have been wiped out completely. Trust me , you don't need to question my compassion , tell me how bad they can get , what they do and how dangerous they potentially are , I am completely aware. Maybe mandatory evacuations is hindering you American's rather then helping.... I know for a fact if no one was at our house during the recent fire it would have been burnt to the ground, Fires that aren't a danger to life are often a threat to structures if no one is there to put out grass fires and spot fires started by embers. If you have a bit of clear space ( Grass paddock ext ) between your house and the bush your not going to get hit by a wall of flames, Smaller grass fires and embers being blown by the wind is what will burn your house. In Australia , the choice to stay or go is for you to make yourself based on how defendable you think your house is, and how prepared you are both physically and mentally, there are no mandatory evacuations. The only issue with that is that is everyone will have a different idea on what the fire is going to be like and how defendable there house is, often you don't know how bad the fire is until its on top of you, and by then it can be to late to leave so it does make staying quite risky. The issue with a lot of the houses is that they literally have no defendable space with trees hanging over there roof, why someone would want to buy a house like that I don't know but in my opinion it should be there choice, the fire brigade don't have to protect areas they see as unsafe and insurance company's can deny insurance before taking away our right to build where we want to. the sad thing is the potential fire risk probably goes over a lot of peoples heads when picking a property. You must live in a suburban area if you don't see my perspective, I'm not saying one is better then the other, they both are great in there own ways and it comes down to personal preference but living in the country is more then just a place to build a house, its a lifestyle and livelihood as is living in the city, we have different hobbies and jobs, we are probably riding horses or dirt bikes for fun, sometimes as a profession while you are going to a night club or restaurant with your friends, and I can guarantee I'm speaking for a whole lot of people when I say we are not prepared to give that up and would rather be denied insurance then denied the right to live here. If you move everyone to the city what happens to our fruit farms and cattle, along with countless other things that require the use of land ? Rural areas tend to be a bit out of the way and people don't want to drive 5 hours to work every day...….. At the end of the day my opinion is they should deny us of insurance and help in the case of wild fire before denying us the right to live here.

Log it, graze it, or nature's gonna do it for ya

@priscillaross-fox9407

5 жыл бұрын

It's not always burned by nature.

Well if they would have used the $10 billion for the high speed rail on fire prevention this all could have been minimized

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19:20 I know this I going to sound pretty disrespectful but the south african wild fire fighters are the best there was a fire just like this a bit bigger and it was out in 2 days these oaks put so much heart and soul and they just so good but it a pretty sad excuse how these guys were killed and all they could say was the wind chaged they should be trained for that not trained on how to deploy a shelter

@DiamorphineDeath

4 жыл бұрын

The fuel types in South Africa are different that the West Coast of America. Especially California, and the desert's of Arizona when it gets real hot, and real dry. What's funny is everyone seems to hold California Hotshots and the likes as the tip top of the hierarchy as the terrain, the conditions, and the monumental fuel load present leads to some of the most intense catastrophic fires out there. Did that South Africa two day fire destroy as much as the paradise fire did?

Water is running out of the planet, water crisis & water shortages are increasing while a huge number of fires, bigger than ever in the rainforests because they're not humid anymore. Huge fires in Europe, America but also in Siberia, Alaska and BC area, as well in Australia and Central Europe. Do the math what to expect in the future......

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