Hit by Arson

[SmithRanchZ]

Blowing 20 plus with gusts to 30+ right now.

Last Spring, they had a brush fire about 20 miles south of me. Burned a mere 700 acres or so. It took days to contain and then extinguish. For just that small a fire. Rounding up the people and equipment (dozers, ect.) takes time. And in the winter and early spring, everyone's place is dry grass and brush. Tons of dry mesquites which burn hot and fast.

I burned more than 30 tons of downed wood, brush, and dead mesquites last winter, and it didn't really even make a dent on the fuel on the ground at my place. Some of my wooded areas easily have more than a ton per acre on the ground or as standing dead old mature mesquites. The properties with a serious oak wilt issue have substantially more fuel on the ground.

So, around here, everyone's big fear, after tornadoes, is brush fires. Especially after the '24 Smokehouse Creek fire. In 24 hours, that fire spread to approx 500k acres. That would cover my entire county.

[Slabmaster]

If you have a water trailer I would suggest having it filled and ready. Prime conditions today.

[Chuck]

Its not confined to VFDs....paid departments have the same issues. 99+% are dedicated professionals, the fringe fraction gets all the publicity.

[Boom!]

We keep a 1500 gallon water trailer full all of the time. It has a 1 1/2” gas pump, 100’ hose and a nozzle on the end. We also use it to move water to animals in sever drought when needed. They are pretty affordable especially at auctions. It would be a simple build project too.

[Landlocked]

There was a kid that wrapped his truck around a telephone pole couple weeks ago up here in NW Oklahoma. Caught on fire. Wind was blowing 30 plus. Every firefighter in the county went after it. That fire spread FAST!! Burned around 800 acres in a couple hours.

Yea VFW. Happened in my hood around 20 years ago.

[Mont]

Those plastic containers with the steel tube frame make great water carriers. I have one at the campground we used many times to move water. We had a fire in camp a couple of years ago that took out two trailers completely and damaged five others. Had the wind been different, we would have lost the whole south side. Turned out to be a bad electrical panel in the back of the first one that went up. After that and having to close 3005 down to run a line across it. I have standing orders to use the water in the pool next time first while they run a line.

[Unknownstrohsfan]

Plastic totes, come in 325 and 550 gallon sizes.