The Ongoing Wildfire Thread

[Two Fivenagame]

I feel for those firefighters and their families. I can't imagine having a loved one facing off against that.

[Scornfire]

Severe Thunderstorm watch announced, that would be an absolute disaster

[darockwilder]

Originally Posted by rohara66

Those photos are ####ing terrifying.

My thoughts exactly. I lived in Kelowna in the very early 90's and this is so terrible.

[Knut]

A bunch of spot fires cropping up all over the place in Kelowna area.

[Scornfire]

Originally Posted by Knut

A bunch of spot fires cropping up all over the place in Kelowna area.

Whereabouts? haven't seen anything on castanet about additional spot fires yet

[Knut]

Originally Posted by Scornfire

Whereabouts? haven't seen anything on castanet about additional spot fires yet

This account is keeping tabs on it all.


https://twitter.com/Okanaganscan/sta...881438490?s=20

https://twitter.com/user/status/1692582677881438490

[MoneyGuy]

Shae Ganum is devoting his show this morning to the wildfires and the impact on people. He’s had several Yellowknife evacuees on. There’s a lot of emotion with some of them in tears. It’ll be on the CHED Audio Vault.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Scornfire

Severe Thunderstorm watch announced, that would be an absolute disaster

Oh man....talk about throwing Gas on it...

The emergency crews are already stretched thin as it is.

Its sad that we need this thread, but keeping it all in one place makes sense, I hadnt even heard of some of these.

[Knut]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

Shae Ganum is devoting his show this morning to the wildfires and the impact on people. He’s had several Yellowknife evacuees on. There’s a lot of emotion with some of them in tears. It’ll be on the CHED Audio Vault.

I have some stressed out Yellowknife Evacuee's at my house right now.

They had to drive through flames on the side of the highway and had to stop periodically for water bombers to douse the road.

[DoubleF]

I was in Kelowna barely a month ago so I've been keeping a closer tab on the situation than I normally would. I stayed up late going through whatever media was popping up and it sucks seeing what is happening out there.

Dang, I feel for Chris and anyone else in an affected region.

If there's anything you guys need help with, please don't hesitate to ask. I don't want to speak for others, but I'm sure many others have a similar sentiment and wouldn't hesitate to help. I don't know what types of delivery disruptions going on right now in those regions. If there are some larger scale programs to coordinate donation of resources and whatnot, it'd be cool if people share that as well.

Hopefully there is a good supply of cloth masks and filtering masks still in the region. I know some of you in that region are extra sensitive to the smoke and it seems like it could get really bad if the wind shifts. Disposable masks are good at blocking, but doesn't really filter against the smoke and I heard the Kelowna region has been extra miserable and smoggy for an extended time due to the Osoyoos fires.

[BlackArcher101]

Looks like a new one started up west of Okanagan Falls, has lots of CL water bombers going after it.

https://www.flightradar24.com/ASB201/31a5cfc2

[DeluxeMoustache]

Pretty shocking how much this grew yesterday. I believe the MacDougall fire was reported Tuesday around dinner time. We were keeping an eye through the BC wildfire app.

Air actually wasn’t too bad and it was pretty clear on the lake yesterday late afternoon. We were kayaking around Fintry. 5 hours later we were packing up and on the road. They had access to Westside road blocked from the North just outside Vernon around midnight

[KelVarnsen]

Airspace around the Kelowna region is closed

https://twitter.com/user/status/1692592119905689922

[pseudoreality]

My family has left Yellowknife and is safe, but I'm staying for now. We do have plans in case things get really bad and essential services have to pull out.

On the plus side, I get to keep watering my house every day. Two of my neighbours have cedar shake shingles, which I'm not too happy about right now.

Also, the last line of defense that the city is building is pretty impressive. Trying to embed a facebook post below, but I don't think it will work.

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[Mazrim]

Some of my extended family and friends have left their homes in West Kelowna in advance of evacuation orders. Sounds like things are getting really busy on the roads since everyone has the same idea.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1692601167283642702

This one hurts. After moving to the Okanagan, my family organized some great family reunions there in the mid-to-late 90s. It started something we've been doing regularly all over BC since then. It's just stuff that can be replaced of course, but man...

[Knut]

Originally Posted by pseudoreality

My family has left Yellowknife and is safe, but I'm staying for now. We do have plans in case things get really bad and essential services have to pull out.

On the plus side, I get to keep watering my house every day. Two of my neighbours have cedar shake shingles, which I'm not too happy about right now.

Also, the last line of defense that the city is building is pretty impressive. Trying to embed a facebook post below, but I don't think it will work.

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To be honest here. Why are you staying ?

My understanding is that Yellowknife has asked that people not use their water so they have the water pressure available for the city Defense sprinklers.

You are also in a situation where you are getting in the way and perhaps putting first responders at risk.

[FlamesAddiction]

I just got back from Kelowna on Tuesday. I was in Osoyoos the week before as well. I go there every year around the same time and it is always hit and miss whether there will be fires in the area, but was fortunate this year that we got in and out in between evacuations. We literally arrived in Osoyoos the day after the evacuation alerts were lifted and out of Kelowna days before evacuation alerts started there.

It seems like the whole world is dealing with it this year. Greece and Spain got hit really hard as well, and there are some pretty big fires raging in Brazil as well.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

I just got back from Kelowna on Tuesday. I was in Osoyoos the week before as well. I go there every year around the same time and it is always hit and miss whether there will be fires in the area, but was fortunate this year that we got in and out in between evacuations. We literally arrived in Osoyoos the day after the evacuation alerts were lifted and out of Kelowna days before evacuation alerts started there.

It seems like the whole world is dealing with it this year. Greece and Spain got hit really hard as well, and there are some pretty big fires raging in Brazil as well.

Now we just need a massive volcano eruption as the coup-de-grace...

Maybe get a Tsunami in there for some icing on the cake.

[pseudoreality]

Originally Posted by Knut

To be honest here. Why are you staying ?

My understanding is that Yellowknife has asked that people not use their water so they have the water pressure available for the city Defense sprinklers.

You are also in a situation where you are getting in the way and perhaps putting first responders at risk.

Thank your concern for emergency responders. I am one of them. This morning the incident commander asked me to take as a section chief. That is why I am staying. We have our own Evac plan.

[Knut]

Originally Posted by pseudoreality

Thank your concern for emergency responders. I am one of them. This morning the incident commander asked me to take as a section chief. That is why I am staying. We have our own Evac plan.

OH got it. Never mind me then. Good luck !