the wind today blew a tree down and it landed on 3 or 4 power lines, caused a massive 3 alarm fire, multiple water and retardant choppers, 5 crews were up top with 3 down on our level...

came to within about 75 ish yards from the back of the houses here, was honestly scared there for a second, its still not out, they still have choppers flying but its more up on the top of the hill and CPF&R have done an excellent job of getting it out... its not totally out yet but getting there...

they brought in several large skid loaders to create the fire lines, it jumped across several roads, but it looks to be a lot better than what it was...

what a fvckin day...

That stuff is scary, stay safe.

My area is nothing but dry crispy vegetation.

yeah it was crazy, they had Central Pierce, East Pierce, Gig Harbor, Pierce County Sheriffs , Eatonville Sheriffs, DNR, and PSE out here getting it under control...

theres still a little smoke coming up, but its pretty much out for the most part...

hopefully there isnt any flare ups tonight, Central said there would be someone here over night to monitor... all roads out are still blocked, but we have an access down a private road down the street...

now that i say that, they are spraying water on the area that is right back behind our houses again...

im gonna go see what is going on...

Scary. Stay safe, Evo.


-Steamy

It would be a shame if somebody started a fire next to your house when you are inside. Nothing of value would be lost. You are lucky nobody has burned your house down already for being such a smug piece of sh!t. Where is Dan S when you need him?

Hope that doesn't flare up

definitely, apparently Lacey FD and Thurston County FD also responded...

gonna be on pinz and needles tonight for sure...

that hillside was a forest 6 years ago... but remember that one post i made about the tweakers? that was there...

the land owner had both his legs amputated so he coudnt come out, i talked to him on the phone... they logged it and left the scraps, in a hugely populated area...

now, its 5 foot tall grass, scotchbroom, and blackberries... actually now, its burnt dirt...


i have never seen anything like that with fire resources, it was incredible....

Jeepers, evo. Did you survive?

oh you know i did....

Well it's just because sometimes it's hard to tell if you're alive or not. good for you

if you arent alive, you are dead...

wether it be physically, emontionally, or mentally, is all the same...

im very much alive...

Sweet fuckin homes. Like Bel Air.

dink one sold a few weeks ago for 80k, neighbor is putting his up for 120K, another for 180k, and another for 150k...

its getting ridiculous..

you still have to pay lot space as well as the house loan, it pushes them to 2k a month...

Damn son. No wonder people in the trailer park be broke. It's cheaper just to buy a house on a lot you own.

Good thing they put it out. Kind of scary.. We stopped by our daughter's new house on South Hill today on our way home from Auburn. Saw a copter flying over.

Evo, did you offer to help cut firebreaks with that sweet hatchet?

Looking at Mount Rainier today, there appeared to be a huge mushroom cloud just to the north of the Mountain. Appeared to be one huge fire flaring up.

Yes - we got a great look at that too, but the fire maps aren't showing anything? Twas' big. We were driving south down 5 to go to the M's game and there were (3) fires along the way. A brush fire immediately along 5 which fvckerd' traffic; a house fire up on the hill in SLU and that big mushroom cloud north of Rainer.

When I lived in Seattle circa 09-10 there was a giant weed bust under I-5. And always I laughed at the town being named white center. Cause it was certainty not a white center.

Not a cool fact at all but us Californians call interstates the 5 the 101 etc.

LOL.

Now, this is a story all about how
Evo's life got flipped-turned upside down
And I'd like to take a minute
Just sit right there
I'll tell you how Evo became the prince of a town called Bel Air

In west Pierce County born and raised
On the river was where he spent most of his days
Chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool
And all shootin some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys who were up to no good
Started making trouble in his neighborhood
Evo got in one little fight and Katie got scared
She said 'You're movin' with your mommy in the town called Bel Air'

lmao

This thread has a few good story lines...but I am glad your place didn't burn down, and I hope the fire is actually out.

Fires are no laughing matter these days.

Fish on...

Todd

That's an insane amount to spend on living in a trailer park. Makes a regular single family house, expensive as they are, seem like a really good deal.

Trailer park or not, I'm glad the fire didn't sweep through your mom's home Evo.

That fire retardant they spray is way worse for you than the COVID vaccine so be safe!

I can see in that pic that the trailer has a big opening in the skirting. It looks like something is growing out of there so it has been open a while. No wonder you have possum problems! I don’t know why the fuk that skirting isn’t closed up already……oh wait……I do know why…..

Pretty [Bleeeeep!] stupid here, butt expected....

After having a rather nasty fire blow thru the lower Green River Valley here earlier in the summer, it’s a scary unpredictable animal for sure. We had crews and copters here for nearly a week keeping that crap from flashing back up. We all got “Fire Wise” reel quick here at my place, and I still have the emergency water lines layed out - just in case we have to dance that dance again...

Take Care Nate, and glad to hear the fire folks got your fires out.

Fixed it for you.

Snuck out to pick some berries above GW yesterday, about 2:00 pm saw a substantial mushroom cloud to the east, judging from the smoke today it doesn't look like it is going to go out on it's own.

Be careful out there... especially you smokers.

Glad to see your home was spared from the fire. Only proper way for a trailer to be destroyed is by a tornado! In fact, a tornado's intensity is measured by how many trailers were destroyed in its path, and they stop counting at five.

Wildfire isn't funny. Three of our relatives' homes burned to the ground in the Carlton Complex fire. One summer, I fought fire with a DNR crew stationed in North Bend. We fought fires in Hobart, Maple Valley, Ravensdale and outside of Enumclaw, along Hwy 410. That season, the biggest fire we responded to was several hundred acres; the smallest was a fire near Tanner Mill, which a lady put out with a dishpan of water. That was kinda funny when we showed up with a full crew and couldn't find "the smoke".

I'm surprised that the trailers didn't attract a tornado big enough to blow out the fire.

In all seriousness, you're right.

As I may have written before, I was once driving up Hwy 101 north of Santa Barbara while a wildfire was reported near Lake Cachuma...many miles from where I was. So I drove through that famous tunnel and I emerged on the other side into a friggin wildfire...complete with burning branches on the roadway and intense heat cooking my car.

There was no turning back so I floored it and escaped a 1/4 mile later. Scarey shitt.

Saw that one burning when I came home yesterday around 3:30. Saw another one light up earlier in the morning down near the Burke that was put out rather quickly once SFD got on scene. Not very often I see a fire...let alone two in a day.

Does it make a me bad person that when I see one of these fires my first thoughts are:

"Another god damn Tweakerville homeless tent camp going up in flames. Good."

DanS would have a freaking hay day up here in C-Attle. Pretty sure he'd run out of gas before he burned out all the Tweakerville Encampments.

We had a rather large one up on Lake City and the residents of that camp painted a sign on a tarp: Zombie Land

The city cleaned that one up before any gas was accidently spilled and lit there.

As for your fvcked traffic comment - that's just normal C-Attle fvcked up traffic at that time of the day. Actually, it's bad at all times of the day around here.