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The Lookout
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Independent wildfire and water-related reporting.
Host Zeke Lunder has 25 years experience in wildland fire management and California water issues. During wildfire season we provide UNOFFICIAL updates on major California fires. When fire season calms down, we work on stories about fire, water, and forest management.
Because of the critical state of our forests and watersheds, we believe every Californian needs to learn as much as they can about wildfire, water, and forestry in order to make decisions about where to live, where to invest, who to vote for, how to maintain a property, and when to evacuate. Land management is complicated, but living safely with fire, flooding, and other natural hazards requires the active participation of everyone affected.
If you'd like to connect with us about prefire planning, fire clearance, or water issues in NorCal contact us via email links at the-lookout.org.
Donate to The Lookout: paypal.me/Lookoutmedia
Host Zeke Lunder has 25 years experience in wildland fire management and California water issues. During wildfire season we provide UNOFFICIAL updates on major California fires. When fire season calms down, we work on stories about fire, water, and forest management.
Because of the critical state of our forests and watersheds, we believe every Californian needs to learn as much as they can about wildfire, water, and forestry in order to make decisions about where to live, where to invest, who to vote for, how to maintain a property, and when to evacuate. Land management is complicated, but living safely with fire, flooding, and other natural hazards requires the active participation of everyone affected.
If you'd like to connect with us about prefire planning, fire clearance, or water issues in NorCal contact us via email links at the-lookout.org.
Donate to The Lookout: paypal.me/Lookoutmedia
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Prescribed Burning Around Chico
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In this 2022 video, Deputy Fire Chief Chris Zinko talks about how the Chico Fire Department is using fire to reduce wildland fire hazards to the City, while getting new firefighters valuable training experience in wildland tactics.
Post-Fire Land Management Tips - Part 1
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USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Area Forester Mary Mayeda gives some landowner tips on how to take care of your land after a fire. Recorded in Big Chico Creek Canyon after the Park Fire - 8/20/2024.
Bidwell Park Fire Effects, Boise, Coffee Pot - 8/20/2024
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We do a quick update on the Boise and Coffee Pot Fires, and then share some videos of a first look at fire effects in Upper Bidwell Park from the Park Fire. Also, some great user-submitted video of the Park Fire's initial fury, as it pushed toward Highway 36, near Paynes Creek. 8am, 8/20/2024 Music by The Avant Gardeners.
A Prescribed Fire That Helped Save Cohasset Homes
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A Prescribed Fire That Helped Save Cohasset Homes
Understanding Wildfires in Eastern Plumas County - The Mill Fire
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Understanding Wildfires in Eastern Plumas County - The Mill Fire
Fires in Chile, with Forester Tracy Katelman
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Fires in Chile, with Forester Tracy Katelman
Danny Cluck Talks About the Dixie Fire
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Danny Cluck Talks About the Dixie Fire
Wrapping up September, Urban Burning
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Wrapping up September, Urban Burning
Unfiltered Fire Report from the Klamath River
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Unfiltered Fire Report from the Klamath River
Complexities of Indirect Firefighting - NW California Fires, 9/14/2023
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Complexities of Indirect Firefighting - NW California Fires, 9/14/2023
Karuk Tribal Leader Tells it Like It Is
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Karuk Tribal Leader Tells it Like It Is
Public Meeting on the Centerville Canal Collapse
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Public Meeting on the Centerville Canal Collapse
Burning Man Situation Report - 9/2/2023
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Burning Man Situation Report - 9/2/2023
Smith River Complex Update - 8/22/2023
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Smith River Complex Update - 8/22/2023
NW California Wildfire Report - 8/21/2023
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NW California Wildfire Report - 8/21/2023
Firefighting in The Klamath River Country
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Firefighting in The Klamath River Country
Bedrock and Lookout Fires - 8/18/2023
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Bedrock and Lookout Fires - 8/18/2023
I was at the Bear fire on Wednesday and it wasn't doing much. No containment but not much fire growth either
I live in Loyalton. I’ve been through enough of these in my life up and down the west coast and the response to this one has been impressive. Planes with retardant bombed the west side hard and the east got to kind of run in the beginning. The wind in this area blows mainly west to east which takes it away from us. Lots of families with pets and livestock have been evacuated, I hope they can go home soon!
Not Sierraville, it's Loyalton. Thanks for keeping us informed.
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Thank U for your amazing help, finally , it really helps civilians understand what we as fire fighters r up against, im currently stationed in Hayfork, winds and a possibility of lightning the next few days
You need to add in the influence of the 2022? Loyalton Fire and the early evening downslopes goinging to longvalley or highway 395 area
used to live in Glenshire. know that area well.
Nothing to do with Truckee. You did scare me though until I looked on Watch Duty
Thanks, Zeke for updating the video description with the links you provided during the live stream! Great coverage of these fires!
When another fire named the "Bear Fire" destroyed the community of Berry Creek in 2020, you would think that name would be archived. Why add to the confusion by having another "Bear Fire"? Yeah, I know that fires are named for the closest road, etc. But you would think that they could be a little more creative, rather than re-traumatizing the people that went through that horrific fire in September of 2020, and adding to the confusion. (Yes, the fire was renamed the "North Complex Fire", but most of us East Oroville Foothill residents still call it the "Bear Fire".)
They had 2 park fires in California going at the same time one in northern California and one in southern California talk about confusion. The same year names should be different but years later doesn't really matter
This area is called Bear Valley, hence the name. Cheers from Loyalton!
Watched a Channel 3 helicopter livestream of the fire in Calaveras Co a month or so ago. Camera guy wasn't interested in showing the fire perimeter. Instead searching for big flames and tanker drops. Not only tanker drops but super close-up shots so you couldn't see the surroundings very well but you could read all the plane markings very nicely.
Missed the "blah blah blah" sign off this time
18:00 seems that painting some of that timber could only help save it, NO? (realize it's complicated, maybe slowing progression at wrong time only invites it at worse time) Masticators need sonar or radar rock detection, it can be done cost effectively today.
We need more logging rather than having a forest that prime for giant out of control fires.
It's burning in near desert.
No one is going to "log" brush and grass.
Contrast to superficial Fear Stream News is stark. (ridiculous comparison) Notice how the source of ignition is rarely even mentioned bc it sort of doesn't matter. I've learned SO much here even tho starting at much higher than ave awareness on these things.
Live there. The tankers give you hope. I believe your summary on that, however. Thanks. I really enjoyed it. I've never seen the area in so much detail.
Those webcams are amazing! And yes a long ways to truckee but when Mendocino national forest burned a few years back, i can understand large-scale burn.
Thanks for info.. I would just suggest for people like me, you should do first a overlay where fire is in proximity to other communities, Im in nevada city but you could do a large projection first. See big picture., then details.Had to go 20 min in to see actually where it was to me. Keep up great work, Thanks for listening
Calfire website has maps with layers and you can check it whenever you want and see where a fire is in relation to you
How in the heck is eneybody trying to stop 🛑 this madness
What are U referring to? Fire is an essential inevitable feature of these lands, many crucial native tree species can't even exist without fire inc. our beloved Redwoods.
Fortunately there's not much out there.
Residents of Loyalton who are under current evacuation orders would beg to differ.
@@watertankhikes Okay........So it's closer to Loyalton than I thought by looking at the map. Thought it was burning east from Smithneck Rd. towards Babbitt Peak..........(away from Loyalton)
Thanks for the update. Did they say how it started?
Ignition source is essentially trivial, it's everything else that matters, something if only lightening will always ignite it eventually.
I so enjoy hearing scientists not conspiracists.
Thank Zeke 🙏🏼💦🌲
It comes down to the fact that people don’t want smoke in their neighborhood especially if it is man made or in other words prescribed fire and they don’t like the fear that having a managed natural fire in the land brings to their lives. After all most of CA is not very conducive to natural managed fire. Prescribed fire would be a great RAKE but folks just don’t like the smoke. Maybe by your education to the public will help them understand.
We deal with it down here in Mammoth. It's a drag but people know it's important and we don't complain about it. Not sure what you mean by, "California is not very conducive to natural managed fire".
@@RootofEcstasy Some places are conducive to it up in the mountains etc and larger wilderness areas that can allow fire to roam. Some of the national parks do manage fire for resource benefits in their wilderness areas mainly because they’ve done a lot of Prescribed fire work or they have ample natural barriers to keep a fire confined. But think of the brush fields etc where it’s an all or nothing fuel type. So maybe I misspoke a little bit. I agree with you that people could just deal with the smoke from Rx Fire but time and time again you see the uproar from the public about Rx fire burning too long and too smoky. An Rx fire I was on in Yosemite off the Tioga Road in the early 2000’s was 7000 acres yet during our 2 weeks there trying to light the thing we had less than a handful of days because of smoke issues to actually add fire to the ground. Maybe more and more people are coming to the understanding the need for fire as a better rake than mechanical thinning piling and burning but in my time in fire there was always pushback from the public.
30 years ago when they planted those trees their crystal ball didn’t tell them that these fire conditions were going to exist. Maybe now they are learning something but 30 years ago they didn’t predict the future because of cracked crystal ball.
Looks like just a bunch of PJ coming back in after the fire.
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Retardant works better in grass and brush but not perfectly. I’ve lit burnouts from grass that has retardant in it and it didn’t prevent fire from running. But it does slow things down. I always laugh when I hear air attack saying we are building line with retardant. Although one time I did see Smokejumpers light a burnout from a fresh retardant line in grass. That was interesting.
Saw giant pyro cloud from so reno today. Bear fire.
Been watching this grow from the northern Reno side. I heard it was dropping ash in Cold Springs
Zach - Thanks for your information on the removal of the dams on the Klamath River. I feel better about knowing it. Also... I've been thinking about your comment "Do you have water rights just because your grandfather did?" Watch out. That could also be revised to "Do you have fishing rights just because your grandfather did?"
late to the party but thank you for this video. so happy about the Klamath Dam removal, honor the tribes who know how to steward
Friends who live out in the woods, sure enough their life revolves around, how much can they spend on making their place fire safe/as can be? It never stops, its their life. 5000.00 is nothing. A whole summer's work readies it for the next full summer's work. As you get older this becomes really hard to keep up. Is that how you want to spend your life? That 40 acres can become a life's purpose.
So many good points in the discussion. I live and manage 40 sw facing acres on the north side of the Siskiyous in Jackson County Oregon. I count burn piles by the hundreds and spend weeks…more like months doing thinning and brushing.
Thanks for helping set the record straight regarding the Klamath dam removal.
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Keep us updated on Bear fire.
Was this started by campfire? I don’t know of any camping spots in that neighborhood.
Great information concerning the burn period. Living in Sonoma County, the ghost of Tubbs still haunts. Thank you. Love the channel. I learn so much.
You are 100 percent right about the Dams on the Klamath River (and probably elsewhere too.). The economics of how these decisions are made would show how bonkers it is to be growing alfalfa when instead salmon could be the oroduct.
Cleaning your property is vital, and you can do it yourself. Learn how, its free. Learn all safety lessons, start small. It increases your home value. Every year pick an area to clear, start area close to house. Only do fall and winter
Thank you
It is amazing how much TRUTH resonates with the soul. Thank you so much for being the TRUTH on fire!
Free the Rivers and you will Free your Mind!
Amazing. More of this practical wisdom from the old-timers, please!
On no. Not again.
Great reporting! What website are you using? Saw the smoke from Truckee
The other fire started early this morning east of Prineville Oregon called Wiley Flat is the one to watch. About 4:45 today it had a thunder cell pass by and it turned a complete 180 and ran hard for 300 or 400 acres in under 30 mins. Watching it happen live on the cam gave me cold chills
The voice of reason. Thank you.
Copperfield doesn't have a ton of fire hx out in front of it. The Bootleg fire in 2021was just east & the 242 Fire from 2020 was west. A few smaller fires along the 97 corridor and a ton of re-prod areas directly in the path. The fire flat cranked this afternoon/evening headed N/NE