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Lightening strikes started a fire at Little Lava lake 5 days ago that has jumped to 10,000 acres and is only five miles west of Sunriver, which was put on level 2 evac warning last night. Hoping with the cooler weather that moved in this morning the firefighters and air tankers can get a containment handle, meanwhile constantly checking the Watch Duty fire map and monitoring the updates, ready to bail if we get the level 3 'go now' alert. Packing a car with the 'must take is a good reminder that most of what we surround ourselves with is just stuff that can always be replaced.
 
Being only 2 years removed from a 20 year stretch in Bend, I've been following. Very best of luck to you and everyone else out there, hopefully today's weather really helps and the fire fighters are able to get some containment.
 
Best of luck and stay safe - hoping for RAIN!!!
 
SurfnFish said:
Lightening strikes started a fire at Little Lava lake 5 days ago that has jumped to 10,000 acres and is only five miles west of Sunriver, which was put on level 2 evac warning last night. Hoping with the cooler weather that moved in this morning the firefighters and air tankers can get a containment handle, meanwhile constantly checking the Watch Duty fire map and monitoring the updates, ready to bail if we get the level 3 'go now' alert. Packing a car with the 'must take is a good reminder that most of what we surround ourselves with is just stuff that can always be replaced.
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I have been through stand-by more than once and know what you are dealing with. Hope and pray for rain for you and for those folks who have been devastated in California.
 
Best of luck and hoping for rain without lightning, I've packed for evacuate twice, no fun.
 
Good luck to you man. We dealt with evacuating the Monument Fire for 3 weeks a few years back. Hopefully they get some helpful weather and containment so you don't have to leave.
 
appreciate the good vibes...crews fought the eastern expansion to a standstill while bulldozing a wide defense line north to south, and their efforts just dropped the evac level from 2 to 1. Silver lining in all this, fires from the west have always been Sunrivers most glaring threat, and this fire has now unloaded most of the fuel source of that threat.
 
Posting here because I couldn't find the regular thread. How are people in the Rowena area doing in regards to the wildfires ? I caught this just a few minutes ago

 
The Rowena Fire has already eaten up 60 or so houses. As to current status -- https://app.watchduty.org/i/51179
The community of Crooked River Ranch here in Deschutes Countyhad to be evacuated last night due to an adjacent spreading fire.

The thousands of employees that were fired during the first wave of the ongoing DOGE purge of the US Forest Service included 700 front line on the ground firefighters that primarily were located in the PNW, reductions of the USFS air tanker fleet from 20 to 13, and reduced maintenance crews that thin forests and maintain fire fighting access trails in half. Hopefully the savings were used for something really important like a military parade.
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Good lort. Is there anything left to burn around sun river. They’ve had a add rough couple of years
 
PhilR said:
Good lort. Is there anything left to burn around sun river. They’ve had a add rough couple of years
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Sunriver remains surrounded by dense forest, the core of last year's fire was about 15 air miles from SR, and had little impact on tree count in the surrounding terrain. I drive though Deschutes County forest on my way to the various lakes several days a week and see little dent in what is over one million acres of trees. Which is why this time of year we maintain a 'grab and go' checklist.
And fires are not limited to just the mtns. In 2020 the Echo fire just miles from the Oregon coast in Lincoln County burned up almost 300 homes, had two friends who lost everything.
2023 was the worse year for smoke exposure in the US, generated from Canadian fires which scorched over 43 million acres, and fire agencies are forecasting this year could be even worse. Wife and I went to Spokane in 2023 to watch our daughter and granddaughter compete in the River City Classic, which ended up being cancelled due to smoke. We couldn't get out of there fast enough.
As it is the current worse smoke in the US, strongly impacting the Midwest and NE, is from Canadian fires that have burned over 8 million acres and remain uncontained. We've entered a period in which wildfires are becoming an existential threat to our way of life.
And thanks to red lines being crossed through budgets by arrogant kids without an effen clue as to what those budgets represent, we're going to be bringing knives to gunfights.
 
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PhilR said:
Good lort. Is there anything left to burn around sun river. They’ve had a add rough couple of years
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It looks like there is a lot of unburned ground around SunRiver.

https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=44.56305,-121.01362&z=8&b=mbt&a=fire_recent

Scroll around to the east if you want to see the destruction of our National Forests that started with the mega-fire era in 1986.

As a forester, my take is that we as a society made the decision to burn down our public forests. We don't want to fix it, and we don't want to live with it.

So we just bitch.
 
wanderingrichard said:
@Canuck from Kansas

Is that fire south of you still burning?
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Mean the one in Lehighton, Bear Mountain? That was out pretty quick I think, back in late April, early May. What I can't believe is then in New Jersey (Mines Spung wildfire), with all the rain we've had, how can that still be burning? How could all that rain have missed (it didn't)?
 
Yeah, I think it was Lehighton and that general area. My older cousin in Northampton was crapping bricks about that fire.
For me it was odd thinking that there was anything in the area not covered in concrete.
 
wanderingrichard said:
Yeah, I think it was Lehighton and that general area. My older cousin in Northampton was crapping bricks about that fire.
For me it was odd thinking that there was anything in the area not covered in concrete.
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Actually a lot of forest around here in the Poconos - not terribly healthy forest, a lot of dead wood, ash borer and such (we've taken a lot of dead wood down on our property), but forest just the same.
 
In the 70's and 80's gypsy moth devastated that area of the state. It's was so bad, walking into the woods it sounded like there was a drizzle of rain through the trees. Nope, just millions of tiny, chewing, mouths. So, ash borer coming through now is just adding insult to injury.

A lot of that diseased timber was supposed to be removed and replanted. Wonder what happened to that plan. 🤔
 
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