Still blazing
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wolfpack076
Professional
Please stay safe thoughts and prayers being sent your way.....
Keystone19250
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Tex people first buildings can be replaced please stay safe and keep in touch when you can so we know you and your family are ok
Talyn
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Everywhere that is at risk of wildfire, either in a forested or grassland environment, its important to have defendable space. Areas prone to winds the defendable space needs to account for embers & flame-lengths that can go over spaces that are set up for calm winds.
www.readyforwildfire.org
Wind-prone farm areas that are flat like in the Plains can benefit from having a plowed space that breaks up the advancing fire since grass fires are flashy & burn out when the flames reach the lake of fuels.
Where I grew up back east the fire season was in the spring & fall when dead leaves and plants where dried out. When the spring green growth started that ended the risk.
How To Create Defensible Space for Wildfire Safety | CAL FIRE
Learn how to establish a defensible space around your home for wildfire safety. Get expert tips on proactive measures to protect your property in California.
www.readyforwildfire.org
Wind-prone farm areas that are flat like in the Plains can benefit from having a plowed space that breaks up the advancing fire since grass fires are flashy & burn out when the flames reach the lake of fuels.
Where I grew up back east the fire season was in the spring & fall when dead leaves and plants where dried out. When the spring green growth started that ended the risk.
Old_Me
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when you posted defendable space.....the first thing i thought of was a "fire break"Everywhere that is at risk of wildfire, either in a forested or grassland environment, its important to have defendable space. Areas prone to winds the defendable space needs to account for embers & flame-lengths that can go over spaces that are set up for calm winds.
How To Create Defensible Space for Wildfire Safety | CAL FIRE
Learn how to establish a defensible space around your home for wildfire safety. Get expert tips on proactive measures to protect your property in California.
Wind-prone farm areas that are flat like in the Plains can benefit from having a plowed space that breaks up the advancing fire since grass fires are flashy & burn out when the flames reach the lake of fuels.
Where I grew up back east the fire season was in the spring & fall when dead leaves and plants where dried out. When the spring green growth started that ended the risk.
never heard of the term you posted, which made me look this up.
accomplishes nearly the same thing, just in a different way.
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nmedge
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I hope you and your family are safe. Saw this on the news this morning. We all need the rain!!!! Very dry here also
TEXASforLIFE
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Grass kept short helped along with sand and gravel/calache barriers where we can.
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nmedge
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Thank god you are all ok!
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XD94045
Guest
Stay safe brother. Praying for you, your families, and your town.
KillerFord1977
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Now its the Largest ever in state history: over 1 million acres
Prayers for all those in harms way
www.wfaa.com
Prayers for all those in harms way
A wildfire scorching the Texas Panhandle has grown to the largest in state history
An 83-year-old woman is the only confirmed death so far, but with flames still menacing a wide area, authorities have yet to conduct a thorough search for victims.
www.wfaa.com
TEXASforLIFE
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I'm totally wiped out working to keep up with more fires and places that haven't burnt yet. Too tired to eat, so going to bed. This crap makes me feel way old from heat and ash still in the air. Didn't eat last night due to exhaustion. Kids and I fixed the 1 tractor and moved it to a safer place and fixed a bat-wing mower (15') to do more mowing for a larger fire brake in case of high winds blowing embers. When the hay was on fire it had embers blowing 200 yards due to 40 mph winds. The electricity provider was out today trying to restore power, but still has a few more transmission poles to replace.
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Talyn
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Hope you can salvage the front loader since the tractor is a total loss.
The pics reminded me how flat the TX Panhandle is.
When I was in the Wildland Fire business we'd slowly burn out "black-line strips" against a bare soil line with a drip torch very slowly to create much larger/wider "black" line so when we did a burn-out or the advancing main fire would hit it would hit the area without fuels & then die out.
But flat land fires with high horizontal winds driving them are an entirely different animal.
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belladonna
Hellcat
I am so sorry that you and your family are going through this. My thoughts and prayers have been with you all the past few days.
TEXASforLIFE
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It started up again south of town where my cousins and aunt and uncle are. What wasn't burned is now burning. The wind change made crazy burn patterns and where a once safe place wad had become not so. Houses and other structures are back in danger.
TEXASforLIFE
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I'll probably part it out and sell what is salvageable after state assistance is figured out.
Talyn
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What are the ignition sources? Power lines? Arsonists?