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Wildland Interface Fire, Castle Pines CO 1-21-13 - Guest - 01-22-2013
Around 1 pm a multiple 911 callers reported a brush fire off of Oak Briar Way in Castle Pines. Crews found several acres burning with homes on all sides of the open space. I was responding from home about 20 miles away and took this shot on the way in...
Wildland Interface Fire, Castle Pines CO 1-21-13 - Guest - 01-22-2013
Upon arrival I ended up assiting our Field Com Unit and couldn't get to taking photos until it was under control.
South Metro Brush Engine 43 working the east flank
Wildland Interface Fire, Castle Pines CO 1-21-13 - Guest - 01-22-2013
Brush Engine 39 and Red 3 working in the scrub oak
Wildland Interface Fire, Castle Pines CO 1-21-13 - Guest - 01-22-2013
Red 3 (used for ARFF at Centennial Airport & wildland) mopping up the east flank
Wildland Interface Fire, Castle Pines CO 1-21-13 - Guest - 01-22-2013
Brush Engine 43 & Brush Engine 39 working with one of the threatened homes in the background... Also note the snow still on the ground.
Wildland Interface Fire, Castle Pines CO 1-21-13 - Guest - 01-22-2013
Brush 40 mopping up the west flank
Wildland Interface Fire, Castle Pines CO 1-21-13 - Guest - 01-22-2013
Wildland Interface Fire, Castle Pines CO 1-21-13 - Guest - 01-22-2013
First Due Brush 36 working
Wildland Interface Fire, Castle Pines CO 1-21-13 - Guest - 01-22-2013
Tender 45 & Tender 46 providing water supply
Wildland Interface Fire, Castle Pines CO 1-21-13 - Guest - 01-22-2013
MetCom IDT2 (field com unit) and Battalion Chief 34's Suburban at the command post
Wildland Interface Fire, Castle Pines CO 1-21-13 - Guest - 01-22-2013
Incident Dispatcher Rystrom working at the ICP
Wildland Interface Fire, Castle Pines CO 1-21-13 - Guest - 01-22-2013
Last one... Truely an odd sight... The fire burned completely around a patch of snow without melting it off.
Wildland Interface Fire, Castle Pines CO 1-21-13 - Guest - 01-22-2013
Just goes to show you can have a brush/grass fire anytime.....obviously these are quick burning fires and not all that hot so as not to melt the snow....it just skims over the top of the grass but is a strange phenomenon....I can remember having our first brush/grass/duff fire in February last year, mostly due to the lack of snow making for a dry spring. Great shots!!!!
Wildland Interface Fire, Castle Pines CO 1-21-13 - hank - 01-22-2013
Good photos!
tHANKs
Wildland Interface Fire, Castle Pines CO 1-21-13 - Guest - 01-23-2013
Great Shots. Interesting thing about that snow. Haven't seen that before.
Thanks for sharing
Wildland Interface Fire, Castle Pines CO 1-21-13 - Guest - 01-23-2013
Great Pics
Wildland Interface Fire, Castle Pines CO 1-21-13 - Guest - 02-05-2013
Great pics. In my patch winter/spring is our wildfire season due to having a dry winter wet summer. Are there manty unimogs in operational FD's
Wildland Interface Fire, Castle Pines CO 1-21-13 - Guest - 02-07-2013
Quote:Great pics. In my patch winter/spring is our wildfire season due to having a dry winter wet summer. Are there manty unimogs in operational FD's
Our wildland season has become basically year-round. Actually, South Metro has the only Unimog that I know of in Colorado.
Wildland Interface Fire, Castle Pines CO 1-21-13 - Guest - 02-07-2013
Quote:
Our wildland season has become basically year-round. Actually, South Metro has the only Unimog that I know of in Colorado.
Doesn't PFA have an older one or am I crazy?
Wildland Interface Fire, Castle Pines CO 1-21-13 - Guest - 02-07-2013
Quote:Doesn't PFA have an older one or am I crazy?
PFA sold their Unimog to Glacier View Fire and I don't think it's in service anymore but I'm not 100% positive.
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