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About 9:00 this morning I was upgraded from level 1 to level 2,be ready to leave...Quite surprising because I have been keeping track of the Holiday fire and it was still 12 miles out and moving slowly. Not much change. That's when I found there was a new fire just over the ridge from the house and much closer..

Luckily,it is calm out with much higher humidity and it seems they have it under control..

I got this off the Linn Country Sheriff's FB page.. I thought that was the case because the area has a main BLM rd and the fire seemed to near be the road.

Linn County Sheriff's Office
1h ·
West Brush Creek Road Fire UPDATE:
At approx 7a.m., Sweet Home Fire District was dispatched to West Brush Creek road for a fire along the roadway and up the hill in the trees.
LCSO deputies patrolling the area spotted a fire that was approx 10-15 acres, it is now controlled and contained. Oregon Department of Forestry(ODF) is remaining on scene to mop up.
The fire has been determined to be suspicious in nature and is being investigated at this time.
Sweet Home Fire was joined quickly by ODF, we are also thankful for a quick response from Mohawk Fire, Cascade Timber Consulting provided a dozer and a type one hot shot crew from the Holiday Fire.

Jesus. Some bastards are still setting fires. Hope it stays under control.

Damn heathens.

I guess most of the smoke has been drawn out to sea but finally today it is smoky as hell up here ~ 30 miles north of the border. Calling for a bit of rain here Tuesday was curious and just checked and Portland gets some too early next week. I sure as hell hope things turn around here. I'm rootin for you all down there. Best.

We're socked in here today for the first time. About 100 yard visibility.

Lived thru that chit two years ago ballz. Take care down there..

Perhaps the chief it correct.


Perhaps not, according to some folks

Thanks for that link to the guy in the truck too. I think that was you, right?

Looks like he spoke before he got all the facts. Phoenix fire was man caused. Person arrested and charged, with arson and other crimes, in connection with the fire!

I hope this chit will pass in Clackamas County, enough has been lost. Not to be a dic, but, there's going to be some serious blacktail hunting in the years to come. It'll be insane.

Hoping to hear some updates this evening.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say he's going to be about 80% right.

Would you even know what to do with this?

We've been like that all day. Lifting a bit, but still pretty think. Air's still better than the last time I was in Nanjing, China.

7.5 gallons per cubic foot. 250 gallon divided by 7.5 equals 33 cubic ft. storage in the tank. 33 times .8 to account for expansion space equals 26 1/2 cu ft actual storage capacity. 26.5 times 270 expansion ratio of propane liquid to gas equals 7,155 cubic feet of propane gas. 7155 divided by 127 cu ft per hr consumption equals 56 hours run time on the generator.

Fireproof hardi-board siding goes a long way toward that end. But even hardi-board can be heated by radiant heat to the point that the combustible studs and other building materials behind may be ignited.

You are probably close, looking at where some started, my quess would be about 50% correct!

On the hunting end, that's not being a dic, only the cold hard facts Boomer. Big burns do wonders for ungulates a couple years few out.

My heart goes out to all of you living through a wildfire. I well know the anguish and uncertainty and feelings of helplessness when a big fire roars through.

2 years ago my son and his young family barely escaped the Camp Fire that destroyed Paradise, Ca. His brand new home, just outside city limits on 40 acres was built off-grid and they'd just moved in. His new home survived the walls of flame and I'll give my take on how to improve your chances.

100' of defensible space all around. Take a hard look. Bark burns, decorative flower bushes burn too.
Back up power for private well. Don't count on solar alone.
Gutter guards, fire resistant eaves are a big deal
stucco, hardi plank, concrete, block, brick...anything fire resistant siding. T-111 is a roman candle.
metal roof
oversized sprinkler system, commercial style turned on full blast before evacuation. Diesel generator running water well. We also put in a fitting for fire hose suppression around the house.

In my father's youth, late 40s before the big logging operations in the 50s (in this area, up high especially) there were few to no deer around. Down low they were kept sparse for the larder. Had to hike back in where there'd been burns, big fern groves. Later, come the population explosion after the old growth clear cutting (of the 40s, 50s and 60s) in this area. and a bad winter in the early 60s, deer were so starved as to start eating fir needles of felled trees as the loggers were still limbing. Then it grew up into brush. Some of that was well managed and grown into timber, some not, some on the second or third growth. That's what is burning in that Riverside fire east of Colton, Green Mountain country. Don't know abou the upper Mollala, Butte Creek, Fish Creek Divide country to the south or Memaloose, BatleAxMountain to the east. Big time timber country, Doug fir an hemlock. Then Reagans big push in the 80s, that chit was prime regrowth when I was coming of age, then the f'ing spotted owl and it overgrew. By prime, the ground absolutely torn up with game tracks. By sparse, dink trails through the brush. Back to much fewer game animals and cougars. So, this will make lots of forage. Rambling generalities for your amusement. Oh, one little 20 acre stand of timber in the area was being logged for the third time some 25-30 years ago - grandpa had plowed that as a field with draft horse as a boy. Timber grows fast there.

My old man had the foresight to buy a clearcut 40 acres for $1300 in 1959, at age 19. Added another soon after, nearly but not contiguous. It's such productive Doug fir ground, excellently managed, he built a home in the late 60s, and then lived off the timber he'd grown since the early 90s when log prices went to hell and he said F'it and retired from commercial jippo logging. Phucqking shame if he lost it in his final years. Word is ok still today. Mix of memories this all brings up.