Marty 2020 wrote:
https://thegoodcitizen.live/p/burning-the-last-man
This article got me thinking.
I didn’t post it originally because I didn’t want to taint the waters of responses.
Do you have a problem with other people’s opinions all the time or just some of the time?
I gave you my opinion, obviously you missed that, so let me elaborate.
I am a career firefighter, I do know a few things about fires, I've fought some hellacious fires and, up close and personal, I watched a lot of different things burn - liquid, solid, and gas, natural, chemical, and electric.
I've seen what fire can do to everything it gets its hot hands on, including human beings.
I know how uncontrolled fires behave, inside buildings and in the wilderness.
I've seen what fire does when its relatively just warm and tame and when it gets really hot and aggressive.
Fire can sneak up and cook your ass if you don't keep your cool.
And, wild fires, holy shit. When those babies rare up in a high wind, they are a force of nature.
They create their own weather which raises the danger exponentially.
They'll kill you quick if you ain't careful. And you gotta be quick.
Man, if those dragons are coming, you gotta haul ass.
Back in the day, me and three others guys got trapped fighting a wild fire,
the damned thing surrounded us. We didn't see it cuz of the smoke.
Next thing we know, we got fire coming at us from all directions.
We hauled ass to a large outcrop of rocks, broke out our blankets and canteens
and bandanas and we hunkered down in a depression in the rocks.
We threw a wet blanket over us and spent the night under there, it was hot and hard to breath,
we spelled each other on watch so we could get some sleep.
We breakfasted on soggy tuna sandwiches, a can of peaches, and what water was left in our canteens.
We got lucky. When morning came and we crawled from cover into a world of smoking ash,
we realized how different it would have been if the outcrop of rocks had been covered under a canopy of trees.
We'd have been crispy critters.
I have no reason to be suspicious about the Maui fires, OK.
The primary things that inform my opinion, are my fire fighting experience and
a hell of lot of research on what makes conspiracy theorists tick
and how they feed their theories to keep them alive.