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07-29-2010, 09:02 PM
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Smoke on the water ...........
July 29, 2010 McLeese Lake BC
 Sun as seen through the smoke cover at McLeese Lake. 
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07-30-2010, 07:23 PM
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Actually my daughter has to take credit for the pictures. She emailed them to Global who used them last night and this morning.
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08-02-2010, 10:00 AM
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Great pictures for sure..that is pretty thick smoke. Which fire is affecting you?
I see the big one down by the Yalokom is still pretty much a wild fire. Anybody know exactly where that is? They call it the Jade Mine road fire, but I can't pinpoint on the maps exactly where the fire is. There is some great hunting country up that way, I hope it doesen't all burn up.. Dry as hell here on the Island. Most areas of the wilderness are closed off, all logging has come to a standstill, and they won't even let you go in to cut firewood. So far so good as far as fires go, but if it stays dry like this it's only a matter of time.. 
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08-02-2010, 08:53 PM
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We are getting smoke from over a dozen different fires right now. There is one burning on the ridge a mile or two to the North of us. Another is in mop-up stage over the ridge to the West between McAllister and the Soda Creek Town-site. The fires on the West side of the Fraser from Buck Ridge up to Meldrum Creek - 10 or more separate fires - are filling both the river valley and our valley as thick as fog dependent on which way the wind is blowing. We sure could do with a week or so of pouring rain right now ................
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08-05-2010, 09:59 AM
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I second the need for a good rain! Not a drop in 40+ days and counting.. Pretty scary having a fire so close.  I hope the heck that one is under control? A fire can move a mile or two as you put it, in no time if the winds pick up. Smoke has made it's way over to the Island now. I started smelling/seeing it yesterday morning, and worried there may be a fire nearby. Turns out it's from the fires in the Caribou. The sun was blood red as it set last night. I can't imagine how bad it must be in some areas of the province.. It has to be one of the worse years I can remember for the sheer size of some of these fires burning. I imagine all those pine beetle killed trees make for great kindling. There should be lots of new hunting areas in a few years when these burns start coming back with deciduous growth. Might take a century in some areas, for a good forest to reappear. The news said it's costing taxpayers 6 million dollars a day to fight the current fires. Great, first the costly Olympics now this! How deep are your pockets? You think we could get the current bunch in Victoria to work Pro-bono for a year? After all aren't they in politics because of the cause, rather than the money..lol 
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08-05-2010, 10:04 PM
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Now here is an instance where fact is stranger than fiction .................... At our office today - regional government - one of our planning techs took a phone call from a fellow living in Duncan (on Vancouver Island) The guy was complaining about the smoke from the fires burning here in the Cariboo and wanted us to, and I quote , "Do something about it because it was bothering his sinuses." The tech - a very intelligent and sharp young lady - quickly responded saying that we would aim the fan that were were using to clear the smoke more up-island towards Campbell River so that the South-Island would not be inconvenienced. 
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08-06-2010, 12:43 AM
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LMAO LMAO LMAO, Boo, it blows me away when people speak out there ass's like this!
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08-06-2010, 10:21 PM
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08-12-2010, 09:25 PM
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Currently over 100,000 hectares - almost 400 square miles - burnt in the Cariboo region in the last 2 weeks. We still have 43 active fires burning in the region with close to 3000 fire-fighters and support personal in the Central and North Cariboo.
Forecast is for more hot - 32 C+ - weather over the next week and a half followed by more thunder and lightning. I think we will be seeing a lot more smoke in the air before the snow flies this winter.
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08-14-2010, 04:47 PM
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Rifleman wrote:
It has to be one of the worse years I can remember for the sheer size of some of these fires burning. I imagine all those pine beetle killed trees make for great kindling. There should be lots of new hunting areas in a few years when these burns start coming back with deciduous growth. Might take a century in some areas, for a good forest to reappear. I agree. While living with all that smoke around can be quite unpleasant at this time, I'm sure that there's a lot of dead pine that is being burned up. In a couple of years there will be a ton of deciduos growth and more great game habitat in the Cariboo. Currently, there is an enormous amount of dead standing timber past any economic value. A good lightning fire is part of the solution in my view. My son has been tree planting in the Cariboo for the past 3 years. This year, for the first time, he did some understory planting - planting seedlings in a standing dead forest, so clearly the forestry companies have arrived at the same conclusion.
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08-19-2010, 07:28 PM
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We are getting a lot of your smoke here in Alberta.. Even way to the south. I am in the Brooks area its about 200km east of Calgary.. I would say visability is no more than a mile.. I heard Edmonton is just crazy smokey..
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08-19-2010, 08:31 PM
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We were placed on evacuation alert yesterday.
The shear number of fires burning at the same time in the Cariboo-Chilcotin has never been seen before. Last winters record-setting warm, dry conditions (caused by the strong El Niño , NOT so-called global warming ) which transitioned into a hot dry summer with low humidity levels have left the forests tinder dry.Once started these fires have been for the most part very aggressive and hard to control. A very intense dry lightning storm passed through here yesterday and thanks to the thick smoke cover from the existing fires any new fires may not be discovered until they grow too large to be easily contained. Presently Evacuation Orders in the Cariboo-Chilcotin have rendered 1,200 people temporarily homeless while another 1,700 of us are on Evacuation Alert.
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“Beware the man with one rifle. He may not have enough interest in it to be competent.” Mike Venturino CSSA Member Last edited by Cariboo; 08-19-2010 at 08:59 PM.
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08-19-2010, 08:46 PM
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