How's the Forest Fire Season in your neck of the woods?

[Reach]

I'd avoid driving any ICE vehicles in tall grass, along with operating some equipment.

I would guess that stationary operation is the real concern.

Stationary operation is worse, but even driving when it is really dry can be enough to start a fire.

Some of the newer diesel engines are worse than gas engines, specifically the engines with SCR regeneration. They release exhaust so hot that it will ignite just about anything; when the first New Holland skid steers came out with an SCR system, farmers all over here were lighting their barns on fire just driving through, the dust and such on the rafters was lighting up from the exhaust temperatures of the engines.

That is part of the reason there is a switch on most of the newer machines that allows you to turn off the regen function for a period of time, so that you don’t light your barn on fire when you drive through it.

 

[evo]

I'd avoid driving any ICE vehicles in tall grass, along with operating some equipment.

I would guess that stationary operation is the real concern.

What is 'ICE'?

 

[27RMT0N]

Internal combustion engine.

 

[southsoundtree]

We got a little rain, too. I'll take it, and more.

 

[Bart_]

I looked up a state troopers video about cruisers starting grass fires doing u turns in the median. I guess its still a thing.

Who'da thunk Hawaii would have a severe wildfire !?

 

[Bart_]

BC declared State of Emergency

Western Canada: Unrelenting wildfires threaten Kelowna and Yellowknife as evacuations continue

West Kelowna Fire Chief says one firefighter described their efforts as “a hundred years of firefighting in one night”

www.theglobeandmail.com

And now I got an email saying Hillary is going to wreak havoc on the U.S. in California. Drought, heat, flood, burn pick your poison.

 

[evo]

Aye, it’s bone dry and the smoke has rolled in. A few new fires have sparked off too.

 

[27RMT0N]

Yah, the smoke isn't bad enough that I'm feeling it in my lungs or even smelling it, but it's certainly in the air and gives that red tinge to everything...

 

[southsoundtree]

The local smoke blew out of here, yesterday.


We had a brush fire on land with small post- logging regrowth, locally, that was stopped after a few acres. Sparked back up a week later.

The local FD said it was the biggest they remember, locally. Dept of Natural Resources is involved.

 

[Bart_]

Heard a blurb that the muskeg (peat moss) was burning 6 feet deep. How would you put that out?

Found this guy giving the scoop in the PNW:

background, out of chronological order. educational

 

[Shadowscape]

Heard a blurb that the muskeg (peat moss) was burning 6 feet deep. How would you put that out?

Found this guy giving the scoop in the PNW:

background, out of chronological order. educational

You don't. We have some peat areas that have been burning for 20 years now.