Park and Crozier Fires - 8/9/2024

Current developments on the Park Fire and Crozier Fire.
Park Fire is burning in the Lassen Foothills Region of Butte and Tehama Counties, Northern California.
Crozier Fire is burning in El Dorado County, east of Georgetown.
8:00pm, 8/9/2024

[peggysmyth]

Zeke, my home is in El Dorado county within the Crozier fire warning zone. Everyday your channel has helped
me reduce my fire anxiety.

[stuweiss-zirc]

I make sure to check your YouTube schedule daily now. I’ve learned so much about fire behavior, firefighting operations and tactics, forest management, and I’m also a GIS mapping geek (your live map work on Google Earth is a great). Your inside intel is revealing. THANK YOU Zeke!

[susanv]

watching replay, great video and commentary, very interesting info about the term containment

[keithevans]

Man you have the best fire channel! Good Fire is Good and you explain it well

[marilyneaton]

Thanks for the heads up regarding your friend, Will. I’ll be hitting up my friends as well.

[Stan_Rich]

Very good vid. Informative and very much appreciated.

[mattshaffer]

“We persent….” I love our West Coast accent. Thanks for your help Zeke!

[bradsanders]

Thanks again Zeke!
Im an oddity in that Ive been thru all these back woods areas on motorcycle, that are coming up with fires. Sometimes every year I get out in the Salmon river area. Between Chico and the coast I ride all the backroads to be found.
Salmon River is a great ride, Somes bar is a good spot for a cold drink.

I was up thru Cohasset yesterday to the heli pad and beyond. I saw no homes left in Campbleville, it is toast.
Damn, ISHI wilderness and beyond is really moon scaped, a Huge swath. Still small smoky hot spots up there but nothing left to burn now. Many crews are very busy in and around Cohasset as you would expect.

Bald hills rd is a good one off 96 heading thru back country to Orick and here and there.
They just chip sealed it.

[deniseholden]

I watch you every dayc but more importantly I want your hat to show how much I appreciate you!

[RidgeRunner-smvs]

Above Weaverville below Monument Peak there is a place called the Monument Saddle where the NFS clear cut the entire ridgeline to stop the spread of a wildfire that threatened the town. It was a radical desperation move but it did work and all that remains are the stumps and the stars. It will remain a firebreak forever.

[bradsanders]

The dozers, along Skyway below Inskip, and between Butte Meadows and Inskip are making a firebreak 100's of feet wide on each side of Skyway, they are flat going to town up that way. It might be 300 feet on one side of the road in some areas.
Leaving big trees and cleaning everything else out.

[cliffwebb]

My neighbor Dan up here by Toadtown recommended your channel. Quantity info.

[bradsanders]

I used to race Moto-Cross in Westwood once a year, some years ago locals put on a race.
I worked and lived at the summit of Old Haun rd out of Greenville for 2 years. The ranch survived, everything else burned.
Used to ride Mt bike up to Homer lake from there. We would explore the area all day every Monday. Snowmobiles, 4X4's, dirtbikes, mt bikes.

[californiakayaker]

One reason they started listening to the Karuk was, as a tribe, they had a larger voice and very strong voice in their area. They are actually independent nations and can completely control their reservations.And they do . Occasionally they will invite local govs and feds in to help. I grew up with many of them and lived next door to some of them, Martins, Pew's, and others. Hoopa's, , Karuk's, and others. Historically its an interesting mix, Native's, Chinese, American Miners, I was living in Eureka, Grew up there, then worked as a Communications Tech and got to know the tribes (we were their telephones at the time) , and got to know even more about these area's, the Go Road, Red Mountain, a lot about the Trinity Alps, very little about the Marbles. I've worked as a volunteer structure protection unit person, and a contractor a little. I could probably get into the contracting again .
I would think the dozer lines worked because after making the dozer lines they fired from the dozer lines and had larger completely cleared protective areas also.
There was talk that several things happened in the Ishi, one was not letting them dump retardant. Yo might be able to verify that, some of the people who were saying that were living right in Chico, your neighbors.I live near Redding now, just south of the Carr fire, it got to within 2 miles (3 if you don't count the burn).
I saw one rehabed "dozer" line, it really wasn't' originally a dozer line, I had shown them where it was, an existing trail/road that they didn't know about, and made it possible for them to go right into the fire they were asking me for help on. It made it possible for locals (before they were even there) to travel down into an area called the Clear Creek drainage. The got the excavator to pull trees that weren't part of anything they did, not cut, and lay them into the old road. That is one reason people are mad about so called rehab, sometimes it isn't rehab at all, but simply their idea of fencing off government areas. Removing old trails. Pretty sketchy.

[bob_frazier]

Wow, that dozer line in South meadow was so much worse than the fire!

[RidgeRunner-smvs]

Looks to me like it's headed toward Lassen Park and slopping over into upper Deer Creek.

[ry-guy_]

Smoke jumper: "this looks like a job for smoke jumper" 😂

[meganbc]

Right on good work! I'm on a water tender for Crozier. This channel is awesome. :) we really don't want it to go into the king scar. It was a cold dewy night last night and I didn't see much smoke as we drove along mosquito rd.

[RidgeRunner-smvs]

People think I'm nuts when I burn out areas of excess fuels using my campfire. I cleared a large campsite of excess downed branches and debris on the PCT above Red Rock Creek when two lightning fires were burning below me having been started the night before by lightning. The smoke gave me the "opportunity.". The Forest Service probably threw debris back over the clearing and destroyed the fire pit throwing the rocks all over the place.

[jeffreyhollister]

What was the "soaked in herbicide" story?