I had about an $8,000,000(total cost to fight) wild fire go through my property last year. You can make a fire break with cats but you have to be way, way ahead of the fire. Even then a wild fire can jump the fire break. Sometimes you have people in charge of a fire that don't have a clue what they're doing. 3 cat operators almost lost their life's on my property last year because of a couple reasons. One cat just had a canopy and the flames went right over his machine. If I didn't have some cleared land that they could get to, he didn't think they would have made it out. They only went about 100 yds. into a treed section before the fire was right on top of them. What went wrong?
1. The 3 cats were sitting on trailers at the intersection 1 mile away for 4 hours! They were hoping the existing fire break would hold, it didn't. 2. They didn't start to drive the cats down the road to my land until after the fire jumped the fire break. They could have drove the trucks and trailers down and saved a lot of time. I had lots of room for trucks to get in and out. Even better, they could have the cats on my property 4 hours earlier. 3. When the cats are moving, they aren't in top gear going 7 mph. They're going about 3 or 4 mph tops. That's why need a lot of head time. The cat owners don't want to have replace undercarriage anymore than anyone else does. The fire was moving a lot faster than 4 mph. 4. When the cats finally got onto my property, there was heavy smoke and they should have stopped in the big clearing I have. 5. A gung ho person from the county tried to be a hero( and put 3 peoples lives in jeopardy). Sustainable resources were in called in and put in charge because they have the expertise in wild fires. The person from the county took a course on being a fire boss which puts him in charge of telling the cats where to go. It does not give him authority to send the cats in though. He gets direction from the fire chief who gets it from sustainable resources who are flying around in helicopters tracking the fire. This moron ignored all that and told the cats to go further into my property to start a fire break when the fire was less than 5 minutes away!!! He sent them in a treed area and never even consulted me about the property. I was spraying down my 5th wheel trailer and an area near the edge of the fire from a 2000 gallon water tank with a gas pump. The cats went in and came back out by where I was about 15 minutes after they were told to go in.
The guy in charge from sustainable resources reamed out the county fire chief about the moron that that almost sent 3 people to their grave. Apparently, the moron was severly reprimanded but not fired??? If ever there was a reason to be fired, that would be it!!! I kicked the news media out without any interviews but could have gave a doozy. It's not easy fighting a wildfire but having incompetant people in place makes it a lot worse.
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