not even April and we got our first warning

last year I think the first one was in June

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
not even April and we got our first warning

last year I think the first one was in June

Judging by your location...I'm guessing you're not talking hurricanes...

It's so God-awful wet around here we'll be lucky to a fire season at all.

All the water is in California.

What does that mean, "red flag"?.....sincerely

nope - humidity less than 20%, winds 20 - 25 and temps in the 80's

we have had several in CO already. well, and fires too, unfortunately.

Colorado will be having a tough year based upon the amount of moisture it didn't get this winter...

It will be problems on the front range and the prairie because the high country got absolutely nailed this year. The snowpack is very deep. So at least we have that.

We're in a county-wide fire ban at present in what's historically our wetest month. No fires, no shooting except lead rounds, no smoking in the open, etc.

Being a gun forum, this may be of more than passing interest:

A week ago Sunday we had four fires and two were positively caused by recreational shooting (not tracer and not tannerite, either).

I was at one on National Forest land where the shooter was firing at shoot-and-see targets stapled to a downed log in an open short-grass meadow with a .270. He apparently hit low and struck a rock and 350 acres later USFS crews had it put out. The shooters skeedaddled.

Another one was on the berm at the local range and that went 550 acres of hard grass.

The Sheriff (wildland fire marshal) says we'll need three feet to lift the ban.

I question the ability of a copper jacketed lead core .270 bullet to cause a spark.

Damn. For a second there I was thinking the surf was up.

The bullet doesn't cause the spark, what it hits and what that hits can cause the spark, like flint and steel make a spark.

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I question the ability of a copper jacketed lead core .270 bullet to cause a spark.

You can question all you want to, but that's what happened without a doubt. I have the witnesses, the tire tracks the pile of .270 brass, the abandoned targets and the strike on the rock with a wind-driven burned track from there past the targets.

Not looking forward to it. June and July typically the worst. Nothing compared to what you guys out west get, but brush jobs still really suck.

Two years ago we had 30 acres go up the day before my second interview for my current job. Two kids started a campfire to cook pop tarts (allegedly) in reservoir land. 9 alarms, 20 fire companies and my own personal 10hr in the woods until 2am before it was out, and I still made it to the interview at 8am. Got the job too

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Originally posted by alreadydead:
What does that mean, "red flag"?.....sincerely

It indicates an extremely bad fire weather day. Generally low humidity, high winds, or both.

They are issued by the National Weather Service. You can think of it as a tornado or hurricane warning, but for fire danger.

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Originally posted by arfmel:
I question the ability of a copper jacketed lead core .270 bullet to cause a spark.

Question it all you like. If you ever have watched a berm with NODS during a night fire, there are LOTS of sparks. Small rocks, debris, and all sorts of stuff will cause sparks.

Same sort of stuff happens during the day.

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Originally posted by ScorpionBoy:
we have had several in CO already. well, and fires too, unfortunately.

And in South Dakota as well as Nebraska. Red flags and fires.

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Originally posted by john1:
You can question all you want to, but that's what happened without a doubt. I have the witnesses, the tire tracks the pile of .270 brass, the abandoned targets and the strike on the rock with a wind-driven burned track from there past the targets.

...we need a "like" button.

These fires were bad enough but if one gets loose and goes crazy it will be very, very bad.

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Originally posted by chongosuerte:

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
not even April and we got our first warning

last year I think the first one was in June

Judging by your location...I'm guessing you're not talking hurricanes...

Thought the same thing at first but guessing it's fire related.