r/Wildfire

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The solution on wildfire is wet grass clippings you can't set that stuff on fire use wet grass clippings put it out problem solved you're welcome Allen Rider

What kind of hours are you guys seeing in the season these days?

I don’t even care I’m making it happen this year. Everyone talks about it everyone knows someone who’s done it blah blah blah I’m doing it. I have no idea how. Anyone have any bright ideas?

Edit: within 10 mins of making this post my algorithm threw me down a rabbit hole and now I’ve got contact phone numbers. New question, anyone know how to make a long distance call to Australia?

Howdy! I still haven’t been called out to a fire yet, a good friend of mine who I work with has been called out, and I’m still sitting here. Any advice?

I hate trying to search for layers across multiple sites.

I built this site and hopefully this community can find some use with it.

It comes from authoritative sources that gather fire data, air quality, wind, and weather. Plus the AlertWest cameras for that mountaintop view.

It works on mobile and desktop.

It's free.

www.plumefront.com

I know we are PL5 and some contractors are rolling while others aren’t getting as lucky. Family reasons kept me from joining a contract crew in the first half of the season but we have since gained stability. I would still like the opportunity to get on a couple fires and am set up to join a contractor in another state in mid September. Do any fed or state crews do mid/late season or AD emergency hires? I would prefer guaranteed work to leaving my family in hopes to get assigned work. Any info is appreciated. Thanks!

Back before covid I had a shot at working at Denali National Park, and working towards being a park ranger. Covid hit, they didn’t open the parks and I guess just ran a skeleton crew of essential employees. Instead, I went to college, met my now-husband and never reapplied, because the timing wasn’t right.

Now, I’m almost 26- married, and I work as in engineering consulting. I’m miserable, like depressed and unfulfilled- despite being a homeowner and in a loving and supportive marriage. I cannot stop thinking about “the road not taken”. I tried diving into hobbies, therapy, whatever- but none of it has really solved the issue.

Finally I brought it up to my husband. I don’t think I’ll ever be happy until I at least go try. He knows what that entails- months of basically not seeing each other at all, being states away from home, it would be tough. But he knows I’m not happy and he knows why. So he agrees. Better now than later.

Financially we’ll be fine. My thought was maybe work wild lands for the season, maybe go back to school and finish my bachelors in something closer to conservation- then work for DCNR or somewhere state-level. So temporary but still several years.

My question is- am I being a dumbass? Leaving my cushy WFH job, comfy and peaceful home and putting stress on my marriage for a could-have-been?

Officials claim the rule's end would bolster wildfire mitigation in national forests, but recent research shows the opposite.

I’m 17 and really want to do wildland firefighting once I graduate high school this year. I did my first pack test and failed, I know it’s my first and where I live is really hilly but I still feel like I can do better.