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Permalink Reply by Chad Furr on March 17, 2009 at 1:16am

Nothing that big here yet. Ours are generally under 2-3 acres each. but getting quite a few of them a day right now. We are in a red flag warning but farmers are still lighting their CRP up. WE cannot get a county wide burn ban either.

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Permalink Reply by Cody Baker on March 17, 2009 at 1:20am

We have had two wild fires with in a years time span. I first wild fire we had was on April 15, 2008, It burned 9,000 acres and killed two of our firemen. The most recent one was in the beginning of March. It burned nearly 1,000 acres and injured 1 firefighter. 3 of the firemen had to abandon their trucks and run.

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Permalink Reply by Fireyladd - Retired Chief Sharp on March 17, 2009 at 1:53am

Michael, we are still in Winter here but last week had a 3/4 acre wildland fire. Who would have thought. It rained two days before. With the drought for the last few years the water table has dropped considerably and fallen debris is piling up. Bad case for fire.

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Permalink Reply by Tony P on March 17, 2009 at 9:34am

Hopefully our wildfire season is tailing off. I think most readers would know what we had to put up with over the past month here in Victoria.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Wood on March 18, 2009 at 12:05am

Thanks for the responses maybe it will die off around here.

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Permalink Reply by Smoke Eater on March 18, 2009 at 4:19pm

Getting hammered around our county. Mostly under 5 acres but some have been alot more. I think there have only been a few that were small enough that the home dept. could handle on their own. Almost all of them have had to call for tankers and grass rigs.

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Permalink Reply by Matthew on March 18, 2009 at 7:13pm

It's been a pretty tame year for us...of course our driest season is the summer/fall.

Where I live, the population is rather sparse...sparse enough to where most of the time you have a pretty good idea of who/how the fire started before you even get on scene. We don't have as many brush fires as we used to though, most of the people that set 50-70% of our raging brush fires are old folks who believe in un-permitted, prescribed burns lol. Most of those guys have either

A: Died
B: Were put in a nursing home
C: Have gotten to old to be dropping matches on their own:p

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Permalink Reply by FF Nick on March 19, 2009 at 12:53am

Not to bad so far, although somebody in St. Martin, MS decided to kick off February with a 400 acre woods fire that jumped I-10 twice shut it down for 3 hours. Total time onscene that day was just under 7 hours. And of course I'm sure you could imagine all the "its back on fire again" only to find 1 log smoking from the dispatch

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Permalink Reply by John on March 19, 2009 at 2:03pm

Here in Sw Ohio our Depat has had a couple of grass fires but nothing real big.
Be Safe

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