[MRCG] KD6TKX status?

[JAMES FALLS]

They jump on fires now because they have to. 

Our group evaluates fire effects, especially debris flow and landslide potential. Fires can cook the soil, creating a low-permeability surface. Runoff later is much higher than usual. 

It’s usually regarding residential areas, but fire debris can also wreak havoc by plugging drainage structures on roadways, threatening the traveling public. 

It’s a real issue these days because we did too good a job with Smokey the Bear and fire suppression. Now many places are fire traps loaded with fuels that natural, low intensity fire used to keep at bay. People think this is “natural” then it is is highly unnatural. The famous “urban interface” is what keeps firefighters up at night this time of year. 

Archaeologists sometimes get involved also because hidden artifacts are suddenly visible. 

No more soapbox, I promise, hihi!

Jim Falls K6FWT 

> On Jul 28, 2020, at 10:15, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:
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>> On Jul 27, 2020, at 7:37 PM, JAMES FALLS <radio-tuber at att.net> wrote:
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>> Right on, OM! 
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>> I track CALFIRE incidents because geologists like myself in the State Geological Survey go out an do post-fire recon sometimes.
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> Do you do the recon to study effects of the fire, or to study the geology that just got exposed as a side effect of the fire clearing brush away?
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> We had a little brush fire under a mile from me a month or two ago (time has lost all meaning during the pandemic work-at-home!). CALFIRE knocked it down before it threatened any homes. Three aircraft on scene plus ground crews. I got some cool pictures of two of the aircraft which flew overhead a bunch of times.
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> Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net>
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