Don't want to be impounding ground run off. Get sued by the water rights owners.
Pretty nifty set up.
They get the fire under control?
Yes, they kept it to about 40 acres. They will be mopping up for days. They have hose lays completely around the fire and two copters are on stand by if needed. It had the potential to get much larger, and very quickly. In 2016, the Stouts Creek fire about 6 miles south of us burned through 6 miles of rugged timberland in less than 5 hours. Fortunately for us it burned south and not north. That was caused by a guy from Arizona mowing dry grass on a very windy 108 degree day.
Local firefighters have said it would be an expensive fire season as they plan to use lots of air resources to try to minimize hand crews. There is concern that if one person of a 20 person hand crew comes down with Covid 19 that the whole crew would have to be isolated.
