Gnarly Santa Cruz Fire...
05-22-2008, 04:53 PM
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Wind is blowing offshore, which isn't really typical, so San Jose is clear for now. Tonight the wind will shift. You'll be smoky in the morning.
They're saying 3K acres burned so far, but that's been for the last hour or two. They say at least 10K acres before they think they can get a grip on it.
Live news feed - http://www.nbc11.com/videostream/11441536/detail.html
They're saying 3K acres burned so far, but that's been for the last hour or two. They say at least 10K acres before they think they can get a grip on it.
Live news feed - http://www.nbc11.com/videostream/11441536/detail.html
If it keeps pushing the way it is it could get real bad for a lot of folks.
05-22-2008, 06:32 PM
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omg. i applied for marin county seasonal firefighter and got through it but turned it down so i could finish my emt and fire classes in time. i'm just thinking that if i had gone through with it i would have been called out at 6am and missed all my finals and would be working like a slave all day right now.
good luck to the fire crews. worst ****ing job. being on handlines digging and cutting shrubs all day on rough terrain and dangerous as fawk.
im glad im not there right now.
good luck to the fire crews. worst ****ing job. being on handlines digging and cutting shrubs all day on rough terrain and dangerous as fawk.
im glad im not there right now.
05-22-2008, 06:35 PM
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omg. i applied for marin county seasonal firefighter and got through it but turned it down so i could finish my emt and fire classes in time. i'm just thinking that if i had gone through with it i would have been called out at 6am and missed all my finals and would be working like a slave all day right now.
good luck to the fire crews. worst ****ing job. being on handlines digging and cutting shrubs all day on rough terrain and dangerous as fawk.
im glad im not there right now.
good luck to the fire crews. worst ****ing job. being on handlines digging and cutting shrubs all day on rough terrain and dangerous as fawk.
im glad im not there right now.
I know a couple guys out there right now.
Dude I went to highschool with is a smoke jumper... or was last time I saw him. Crazy.
05-22-2008, 06:43 PM
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man im kinda imagining what it would have been like fighting this fire. its such exhausting work i don't know if i could do it for 24 hours. i would have been out there for 9 months handling fires everywhere in california.
tell you one thing though if i was in a working fire crew this would be a good story to tell afterwards. i would have failed my damn emt class and fire service operations class today though.
tell you one thing though if i was in a working fire crew this would be a good story to tell afterwards. i would have failed my damn emt class and fire service operations class today though.
05-22-2008, 07:06 PM
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man im kinda imagining what it would have been like fighting this fire. its such exhausting work i don't know if i could do it for 24 hours. i would have been out there for 9 months handling fires everywhere in california.
tell you one thing though if i was in a working fire crew this would be a good story to tell afterwards. i would have failed my damn emt class and fire service operations class today though.
tell you one thing though if i was in a working fire crew this would be a good story to tell afterwards. i would have failed my damn emt class and fire service operations class today though.
Beyond that... it would take a real ******* to fire someone for missing ONE test final or not because they were called in to fight a fire and save lives.
05-22-2008, 08:39 PM
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You guys down there just watch the weather and winds. Listen to your local news and the fire dept 
Keep 100' defensible space from your house and put out any embers with a garden hose if you can!!!
Keep 100' defensible space from your house and put out any embers with a garden hose if you can!!!
05-22-2008, 11:46 PM
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Im okay FYI
I live opposite side of 17 prob 5 miles away.
Really sad though. I feel like driving over there tomorrow and donating stuff.
There are actually quite a few...id say 50 houses in its path...probably 1000 homes on that mountain range from 17 to SC to Corralitos. I google map roads so i know these things lol
My friend at CDF Santa Rosa doesnt mind playing XBOX360 all day in the downtime 
and his 5 day weekends, his free trip to Idaho last year, making friends with bloods and crypts cutting fire lines with him in the chain gang lol.
but yeah, he's almost been surrounded by fire twice in his 3 years...so yeah teeter totter.
I live opposite side of 17 prob 5 miles away.
Really sad though. I feel like driving over there tomorrow and donating stuff.
omg. i applied for marin county seasonal firefighter and got through it but turned it down so i could finish my emt and fire classes in time. i'm just thinking that if i had gone through with it i would have been called out at 6am and missed all my finals and would be working like a slave all day right now.
good luck to the fire crews. worst ****ing job. being on handlines digging and cutting shrubs all day on rough terrain and dangerous as fawk.
im glad im not there right now.
good luck to the fire crews. worst ****ing job. being on handlines digging and cutting shrubs all day on rough terrain and dangerous as fawk.
im glad im not there right now.
and his 5 day weekends, his free trip to Idaho last year, making friends with bloods and crypts cutting fire lines with him in the chain gang lol.but yeah, he's almost been surrounded by fire twice in his 3 years...so yeah teeter totter.
05-23-2008, 09:41 AM
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There's a reason fire fighters get schedules like that and get paid the way they do. You have to be ready to put your *** in a sling any given second, be ready to scoop up a kid who got ripped in half in a motorcycle accident and stare at someone burning to death and tell them they'll be o.k. It truly takes a special kind of person.
That's why my wife says no for me. When we were having that conversation the night before the fire she said...
You're smart so I know you'll be o.k. as a cop but you're also the kind of guy that will run into a fire to save someone's *** so no go on the fire department.
Over the next year I'm trying to get my weight down so I can put myself in a situation where I can choose what I want to choose. I only have 3 years for the age cut off.
That's why my wife says no for me. When we were having that conversation the night before the fire she said...
You're smart so I know you'll be o.k. as a cop but you're also the kind of guy that will run into a fire to save someone's *** so no go on the fire department.
Over the next year I'm trying to get my weight down so I can put myself in a situation where I can choose what I want to choose. I only have 3 years for the age cut off.
