Can you smell the smoke in your area? Do you have wildfire fears?

I can remember when they had controlled fires and rare to have forest fires - they could not spread. environmentalists need to go back to what worked
 

Still watching info about the Dixie Fire in CA. There's a knowledgeable person live-streaming on Youtube showing maps and info about the fire from various sources and explaining how we are in this predicament. So far Chester is okay, that's where family/friends live. This morning it was smokey and we could smell smoke. Here's a general map of air quality in northern and central CA from the fires. I saw readings earlier today that showed levels spiking up over 1000 in Reno.
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Northern Ontario wild fires are if the wind is right sending smoke south. Lots of air quality warnings and very hazy. Really noticed with my solar system it takes and extra hour to get to a full charge. When i lived in the Miami area there were often wild fires in the area. Closed the airport temporarily.
 
Sliverfox said:
We have a planning mill not far from us.
They burn scraps of wood,, so wood smoke is often in our air.
That said , I still get anxious when I smell wood smoke.

Where we used to live the older lady up street, would burn her trash outside on windy days.
Several times our other neighbors & us would be out battling the grass fires from her trash burning.
There was a small stand of larch between her house & ours.

Always afraid they would catch fire from blowing bits.
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It's against the law in Connecticut to burn trash or leaves, banned in other states as well. Write to state representatives to see if they'll stop that pollution.
 
Mrs. Robinson said:
As much as I miss California,I most definitely don`t miss the wildfire threat. Although my dog and my donkey are still there-and unfortunately both are in extremely vulnerable areas. I`ll be picking up my dog in a couple of weeks but sadly,my donkey is going to have to live out her life there.😭But here in Idaho we have very hazy skies due to the smoke from California and Oregon.
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Really late for a reply, But there are a couple of agencies up in No Cal that are taking in animals, including livestock, that are in wildfire areas. One of them is in Chico. You can also call No Calif Fish and Game for phone numbers of people who will go get your donkey and house or re-home him at no charge. (they take voluntary cash donations)
 
Murrmurr said:
Really late for a reply, But there are a couple of agencies up in No Cal that are taking in animals, including livestock, that are in wildfire areas. One of them is in Chico. You can also call No Calif Fish and Game for phone numbers of people who will go get your donkey and house or re-home him at no charge. (they take voluntary cash donations)
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Yes,there is one in Lake County called LEAP that helped get my animals out in 2018 during the Mendocino Complex fire. I was 3 hours away and could not get back in in any case. But now my donkey is up in Willits and I feel confident that between my vet,who lives next door to the boarding facility,and the owner of the facility (and their husbands),that in the event of a fire,they will go above and beyond to save all the horses.
 
Mrs. Robinson said:
Yes,there is one in Lake County called LEAP that helped get my animals out in 2018 during the Mendocino Complex fire. I was 3 hours away and could not get back in in any case. But now my donkey is up in Willits and I feel confident that between my vet,who lives next door to the boarding facility,and the owner of the facility (and their husbands),that in the event of a fire,they will go above and beyond to save all the horses.
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Awesome. Good to know.
 
Granny B. said:
Woke up here to a hazy yellow-orange sunrise with smoke clearly drifting towards us from the Dixie fire in Plumas Co. It has grown to 143,000 acres. We have family who have been evacuated from the surrounding area. The fire is headed their way, and they don't know when they will get to return or if there will be anything left when they do.

I'm keeping an eye on our air quality on this handy map here.

Thought I'd share a couple of awesome images of firefighters spraying water on the fire from the top of a train. I have been reading that is not uncommon. I never knew.
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At first glance I thought those were paintings! That train looks so bright blue and pops against the hazy background. Great shots! I'm so sorry about your family. Any updates for us?
 
Ruby Rose said:
Can you smell the smoke in your area? Do you have wildfire fears?
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No fires nearby right at the moment, but here in the high desert near the foothills of the San Bernardino / San Gabriel mountains that could change quickly.
We've had several fires march through this area over the last few years, was under mandatory evacuation due to the Blue Cut fire in 2016. We didn't leave, but were inundated with quite heavy smoke for 4 days.
The fire threat is constant, our homeowners insurance went up 50% this year! Nothing we could do about that, I contacted other insurance companies...none are writing new policies here. Where we are situated the land is flat, we have 2-1/2 acre parcels here and keep a decent firebreak cut in the foliage.
 
The news, this morning, said that this is already the 3rd largest fire event in history, in the West....and fire season usually lasts until well into November....another 3 or 4 months. Unless there is a major change in the weather patterns, bringing substantial rain to the West, this year may well set a new all time record.

Colorado has been receiving some good rain in the Rockies, but the burned out areas have caused mudslides that have closed a major portion of I-70....forcing traffic to take long detours...even having to go North to I-80, in Wyoming, to travel from Denver to Salt Lake city.

Between this pandemic, and the weather, 2021 is shaping up to be a rather bad year.
 
Don M. said:
The news, this morning, said that this is already the 3rd largest fire event in history, in the West....and fire season usually lasts until well into November....another 3 or 4 months. Unless there is a major change in the weather patterns, bringing substantial rain to the West, this year may well set a new all time record.
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You are right, in college I worked summers as a firefighter for the Forest Service (Teton National Forest) we always considered Labor Day to be the peak of fire season, and that's still weeks away. In those days fires in our district were few and small, but we got sent on some impressive ones in California, Oregon, Idaho and Nevada.

We still have a ways to go to beat the 1910 fire season (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_1910) but anything is possible. The biggest fire that summer happened later in August. My stepfather's father, my step grandfather I guess, survived the 1910 fire as a boy, he lived in Northern Idaho and remembered being surrounded by fire and having to go down to a creek and keep wet to keep from burning. His family farm and home burned. I was quite impressed by his stories.
 
Denver has the worst air quality of any major city in the world today!
https://www.denverpost.com/2021/08/07/denver-air-pollution-ranking/

The smoke from California wildfires is blowing in to Colorado. It looks like it's overcast, but if you look closely, you can see that its clear with a just few wispy clouds. The haze is smoke. The sun is partially obscured. It's frickin' awful. I'm in my office with all the windows closed, but my eyes are burning from the smoke and it's irritating my lungs. I feel sorry for people who have respiratory problems.
 
Don M. said:
The news, this morning, said that this is already the 3rd largest fire event in history, in the West....and fire season usually lasts until well into November....another 3 or 4 months. Unless there is a major change in the weather patterns, bringing substantial rain to the West, this year may well set a new all time record.

Colorado has been receiving some good rain in the Rockies, but the burned out areas have caused mudslides that have closed a major portion of I-70....forcing traffic to take long detours...even having to go North to I-80, in Wyoming, to travel from Denver to Salt Lake city.

Between this pandemic, and the weather, 2021 is shaping up to be a rather bad year.
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These events are just awful !! I feel so sorry for all those affected.
 
@Nathan, what is the AQI? It won’t let me read it. Until a few days ago, our valley was around 350 for over a week. Down on BC/Washington border it hit >500, when the WA/OR winds were blowing this way.

We haven’t done anything outside for a couple of weeks.
 
We had a smoky haze here last week but that's gone. The smoke I do smell is from some a**hole in the neighborhood with a fire pit who just loves to stink up the cool night air some nights. Since climate change is an issue, I wonder if all that smoke in the atmosphere will exacerbate the problem in some way.
 
Don M. said:
My Sister and BIL live on the far western end of Arvada. They said the air is so smokie that they can barely see the mountains....just a few miles away. They are staying indoors and wearing cloth masks, dampened with water, to try to avoid breathing in this smoke.
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Yeah, it's nasty. We have all the windows closed in the house. Luckily, it's not too hot. I guess the smoke is blocking out the sun rays to keep it somewhat cool.
 
i'm in North Central New Mexico. We do have serious wildfire issues some summers. tho in 9 yrs have not needed to evacuate. Just lots of smoke and ask in the air. More often they come in July but that month was SOOO wet. It cleared up earlier this week, then yesterday a little haze, but this morning a definite air quality issue. So i went online knowing that often smoke and ask can travel quite far on winds.

There are only 3 fires anywhere close to us, and they are East over a mountain ridge. Prevailing winds from north and west but in Mountains they can swirl and come from any direction. So there is a slight risk of fires spreading this way. We'll know cause my daughter manages local Motel and firefighters working nearby often stay there. But then i expanded my view on the site and it would seem most of the western states to north and to west of us, have multiple wildfires.

A good reminder of why you don't have to be at ground zero for nuclear weapons to be a threat nor on side of volcano for them to be.
 

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