When Andy came home yesterday afternoon he said, “There’s good news and bad news.”
The good news is Joe’s crew finished the roof.
The “bad news” was Andy saw signs of a fire to the west of us. I checked the wildfire map and the only one they mentioned in our area was a controlled burn in the Valles Caldera, so it should be no problem.
Once again, bless the internet!
October 23, 2019
the wind is blowing here 90 to nothin!!! the thought of anybody doing any kind of ‘controlled burn’ is scary beyond words. one has to HOPE they know what they’re doing. they have screwed up before!
Apparently this one is safe so far. I’m glad I’m not the one who has to decide.
How long will it take for the controlled burn to be over? I hope soon and that it remains controlled.
I’m not sure how long they expect it to last, but there doesn’t seem to be any danger. They’re even predicting a little snow tomorrow.
Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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whatever will Andy find for Joe to do next?
as for controlled burns, they have a habit of getting away from the “controller” – particularly when they take their eye of the “ball”
Prescribed burns are necessary, but tricky.
Joe will do some work on creating a defensible space, hopefully he will start the end of next week.
Well the roof looks good and that was good news.
Hope they keep that controlled fire under control
The weather is helping a lot with the fire.
I hope the controlled fire is kept in check and doesn’t turn into something more serious.
Thanks. It would be surprising if this one got out of control.
Around here they now call those prescribed burns. Control too often isn’t. There are guidelines as to when you can prescribe a burn with predicted winds being part of that. Prescribed burns are actually good because they reduce the underbrush making wild fires less hazardous. Wild fires are often set by careless humans rather than lightening so I think that type should have their own name. MN is pretty good about tracking the cause of the fire and making the careless humans pay the cost of fighting the fire and damages done by it. I approve of that.
We had to evacuate in 2000 because a prescribed burn got out of control. The 2011 fire (which torched all the trees except one on our land and caused another evacuation here in town) was because a power line had a freak accident with a tree and the forest was overgrown and extremely dry. That plus high winds was a disaster.
There’s a controlled burn somewhere about 60 miles north of us but the winds were blowing the smoke all the way down here today and it is *very* hazy and smells strongly of smoke.
That smoke goes a long way! 🙁