/out/ - Outdoors » Thread #1396027

[56 / 7 / ?]

Anonymous Tue 13 Nov 2018 20:48:41 No.1396027 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1396030 >>1396042 >>1396043 >>1396044 >>1396267 >>1396558 >>1396597 >>1396616 >>1396662 >>1396784 >>1396962 >>1397515 >>1398839 >>1398841 >>1399411 >>1400342

>hiking in forest
>lightning catches it on fire
How do you prepare for and respond to this?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Nov 2018 20:57:00 No.1396030 Report

Quoted By: >>1396036 >>1396286

>>1396027
well obviously you bring a 1000 gallon water tanker with you to keep you hydrated while your flesh turns to a nice crisp crust around your bones.

.... You fucking leave. And contact emergency services.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Nov 2018 21:09:42 No.1396036 Report

Quoted By: >>1396040 >>1396049 >>1396058

>>1396030
Sounds like good advice for Central Park.

But I'd like to hear from people that have actually gone on multiday backpacking trips in the middle of nowhere.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Nov 2018 21:14:55 No.1396040 Report

Quoted By: >>1396087

>>1396036
Yeah okay.

So what's your idea of what to do? Beat a wildfire with a wool blanket?

You're not a fireman, you have no training and carrying firefighting equipment into the bush for a simple backpacking trip is stupid and impractical. Leave, and get fucking help.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Nov 2018 21:17:12 No.1396042 Report

Quoted By:

>>1396027
Cum on the fire with my enormous balls

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Nov 2018 21:17:16 No.1396043 Report

Quoted By:

>>1396027
I don't hike in places that can catch fire like that. However, you need to know wind direction and local bugout points to roads where you can get away. Once in safety, contact authorities. The wind you should already know because you should have been keeping up with weather news. The bugout points you should know simply for emergency health reasons. If you have a cell phone/sat phone or other wireless communication, contact authorities immediately.

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO Screen Shot 2018-11-13 at 4.17.0 (...).png, 60KiB, 892x354

Anonymous Tue 13 Nov 2018 21:17:32 No.1396044 Report

Quoted By: >>1396096 >>1396785 >>1396939

>>1396027

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Nov 2018 21:23:33 No.1396049 Report

Quoted By:

>>1396036
hopefully you'll have been aware that you are hiking in an area/conditions prone to wildfires. this means you know that it's been dry lately and you've checked the weather so are aware there's a chance of a storm. you'll also have been navigating properly with a paper map so you have a decent idea of where you are and what's around you. once you become aware that there is a fire you'll want to note the direction of the wind and gtfo asap. you'll want to head to the nearest man-made or natural firebreak. if you get trapped in a dry fire break you'll want to wet an item of clothing and cover your mouth and nose. then you'll need to lie down face first to limit the amount of smoke you inhale. if you are smart enough to carry some sort of satellite communication device, you should be hitting that SOS button.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Nov 2018 21:30:57 No.1396058 Report

Quoted By:

>>1396036
get up wind of the fire

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Nov 2018 22:12:19 No.1396087 Report

Quoted By: >>1396142 >>1396409 >>1402679

>>1396040
Are you dense? No one is talking about attempting to be a hero and going all smoke jumper.
This thread is about avoiding burning to death in a spontaneous, rapidly approaching forest fire.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Nov 2018 22:31:36 No.1396096 Report

Quoted By: >>1396259 >>1396939 >>1396960

>>1396044
>cover your body with wet clothing
Some time ago I watched a doc about wildfires and I recon they advised against this for some reason I can't remember. Can anyone confirm the validity of such claim?

>backpacking
>summer, 36ºC
>no map, overgrown and ill marked trail, lose my bearings
>know that if go in such direction I will get on trail again a few kms ahead
>fire and smoke
>can hear helicopters
>push it off trail, lots of very dry vegetation
>reach dead end, have to hike back
It was pretty stupid, it was too hot and I didn't want to hike 2/3km back, which had to do eventually but going in the general direction of a decent fire was very retarded. Even tho the fire was a good 6/7km away it could have ended bad because there was no place to escape nor help around.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Nov 2018 22:33:17 No.1396099 Report

Quoted By:

Op is retarded and so is this thread. I got dumber just reading their hypothetical

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Nov 2018 00:07:33 No.1396142 Report

Quoted By: >>1402679

>>1396087
YOU FUCKING LEAVE! HOW IS THERE AMYTHING ELSE TO IT? HOW MANY PEOPLE IN THIS THREAD HAVE TO TELL YOU TO GO IN THE OTHER DIRECTION OF THE FIRE FOR YOU TO GET IT? Actually, you know what OP? Don't listen to them. Always stay above the fire. Fire tends to not rise. It's the bottom you have to worry about.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Nov 2018 02:45:18 No.1396259 Report

Quoted By:

>>1396096
> wet clothing

Clothing would steam. It's like using a dry vs wet towel to remove something hot from the oven.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Nov 2018 02:57:18 No.1396267 Report

Quoted By:

>>1396027
Don't go deep innawoods if the fire danger rating is high and you know there's chance of storms.

Are you fucking retarded OP?
Don't put yourself in that situation to begin with and if you are then get to a bottomland or a road as quick as you can. And call 911.

Kys OP

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Nov 2018 03:17:54 No.1396286 Report

Quoted By:

>>1396030
>You fucking leave. And contact emergency services.
This, you move your ass while tryin to call whoever the local fire department is. It's really not that hard.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Nov 2018 06:16:48 No.1396409 Report

Quoted By: >>1399381

>>1396087
You're the dense one m8. You go in a direction not directly fucking towards the fire. That's all you fucking can do. You walk your happy ass AWAY FROM THE GODDAMN FIRE.

This will have 1 of 2 outcomes.
1. You get away because you're faster than the fire
2. The fire is faster than you and you fucking burn to death

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Nov 2018 08:56:08 No.1396464 Report

Quoted By:

jump in river, cloth over mouth to breath.

guy i know whos an exfirefighter dealing with bushfires told me that

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Nov 2018 15:34:35 No.1396558 Report

Quoted By:

>>1396027
Run back to your car then GTFO of there

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Nov 2018 16:42:43 No.1396597 Report

Quoted By:

>>1396027
go in the opposite direction and phone the Ranger Station

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Nov 2018 17:26:54 No.1396616 Report

Quoted By:

>>1396027
Once in the 80's I was caught in a bushfire and long story short I climbed deep into a wombat's hole. I just soaked my pack and put it behind me. Wombat thankfully had vacated to I didn't knead to kick it to death.

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO The-Sun-lol.png, 2MiB, 1920x1080

Anonymous Wed 14 Nov 2018 17:36:30 No.1396624 Report

Quoted By: >>1396957

>jerking it to brap pron late at night innawoods
>Suddenly this beautiful object appears in the sky, beckoning me to stare into it
How do you prepare for and respond to this?

Madsen Maskingevær !!o9Rj2xAYif5

Madsen Maskingevær !!o9Rj2xAYif5 Wed 14 Nov 2018 18:41:22 No.1396662 Report

Quoted By:

>>1396027
>How do you prepare for and respond to this?
by not living in a country that god hates

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Nov 2018 20:29:04 No.1396740 Report

Quoted By: >>1399381

Picture in original post isint much of a fire. I’d call it a head class level 2. Step over the foot high flames into the black. L.A.C.E.S. Look outs. Anchor points, Communications. Escape Routes and Saftey Zones. Escape routes on most of fires we action are the hose line from water source. You will never out run a fast moving fire especially if it’s running up a hill. Bogs lakes and rivers if you can find one will also do. Hardwood stands will slow fire spread significantly You will smell a fire coming from a long way off.
Lighting fires starts may smoulder for a few days before showing smoke. The lower the humidity and higher the winds more chance you are going to be facing a good fire. 2 pm to around 6 ish is prime time for fire spread. After supper humidity drops as does fire behaviour including rates of spread. That s why you see some fire crews working through night. Especially dozers busting out fire breaks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Nov 2018 20:41:56 No.1396748 Report

Quoted By:

Training video links dude.
https://youtu.be/vxSI1uXuBsk
https://youtu.be/SB4pk91yq24
https://youtu.be/pPQpgSXG1n0
https://youtu.be/uazsVOxBSn8

Some cool stuff. It’s a fun job if y’all are looking for a paid camping trip for a summer. Can’t help it I got to spam 1 more link. The best for last https://youtu.be/QxJFIfkOQLY

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Nov 2018 22:00:59 No.1396784 Report

Quoted By:

>>1396027

When I was younger my neighbors corn burnt and it spread to one of our pastures. About 5 acres of the pasture was lightly wooded like your picture. Dad and the neighbors were on the big tractors mowing down around the flames to stop them from spreading and me and my brothers had a pump in the creek and used it to fill buckets for pouring on fence posts. It was hot, but not very hot, most of the trees even survived but we did end up losing the fence line.

I reckon if I saw that again I would stand in a burnt area swatting approaching fires with my sweatshirt until it had burnt away from me. But this is speculation, im in Indiana where it's pretty wet maybe fires are hotter elsewhere?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Nov 2018 22:02:34 No.1396785 Report

Quoted By:

>>1396044

Steam burns and melting synthetics would be my primary concern.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Nov 2018 22:41:39 No.1396803 Report

Quoted By: >>1396960 >>1400348

https://youtu.be/QJsY6foLh8o These exist American crews carry them. Not so useful in northern forests where leaf litter layer is so thick. To my knowledge no Canadian crews carry these

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Nov 2018 03:09:52 No.1396939 Report

Quoted By: >>1397023 >>1397093 >>1397098

>>1396044
>>1396096
Whatever you do, don't use a wet cloth over your mouth or wet your clothes. What sounds less painful, having 170 degree air or 170 degree water on your skin?

That Nat geo advice is rubbish. Low area without vegetation is good but the other two go against everything they a wildland firefighter is taught.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Nov 2018 03:29:13 No.1396957 Report

Quoted By:

>>1396624
you look my son. for as long as it takes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Nov 2018 03:34:17 No.1396960 Report

Quoted By:

>>1396096
>>cover your body with wet clothing
>Some time ago I watched a doc about wildfires and I recon they advised against this for some reason I can't remember
Well it's not exactly a doc but rather an instructional film, it was this one. >>1396803

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Nov 2018 03:43:37 No.1396962 Report

Quoted By:

>>1396027
I hike near the beach so the fire isn't getting far

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Nov 2018 06:17:49 No.1397023 Report

Quoted By:

>>1396939
NatGeo wasn't suggesting you wet your clothes to keep you cool to escape, it was saying to hide out on a body of water, where you'll be much safer from a fire.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Nov 2018 11:21:14 No.1397093 Report

Quoted By:

>>1396939
Ideally you'd find a moving body of water like a river, that being said being in a large a body of water that has it's heat sapped via the ground and is colder the deeper it goes sounds better dying from radiant heat.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Nov 2018 11:27:28 No.1397098 Report

Quoted By: >>1397663

>>1396939
water evaporates and takes the heat with it. that's the whole point, it's a small heat barrier that might protect you from blistering burns. people who walk on coals get away with it because they whett the soles of their feet first. only buys them a second but that's enough to skedaddle across the coals with nothing more than maybe a first degree burn. being covered or wrapped in wet cloth will protect your very well from momentary blasts of heat - but i do agree it won't protect you for long before it gets overcome with heat. it's still better than exposed bare skin.

but anyway, going into a body of water is no guarantee but it'll protect your submerged parts quite well. might still suffocate from all the CO/CO2/soot though

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Nov 2018 01:57:05 No.1397515 Report

Quoted By: >>1398316

>>1396027
Turn 360 degrees and walk away

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Nov 2018 02:12:19 No.1397520 Report

Quoted By: >>1401847

>just leave
>you could WALK away

Clearly some of you fucking morons haven't been watching the news. The entire town of Paradise California had a 10 fucking minute warning to drive their assess out of the Camp Fire and dozens of them still burned to death.

So please shut the fuck up because you clearly have no idea what you're actually supposed to do.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Nov 2018 02:22:04 No.1397523 Report

Quoted By:

Breathe in all the oxygen to kill the fire

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Nov 2018 10:01:14 No.1397663 Report

Quoted By: >>1397666

>>1397098
hence the cloth over your mouth to breathe.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Nov 2018 10:12:49 No.1397666 Report

Quoted By:

>>1397663
https://youtu.be/9Y-IVg5sxRQ

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 17 Nov 2018 06:37:46 No.1398168 Report

Quoted By:

If you've got the right terrain you can burn your way out of trouble. Light up a fire. It will take off ahead of the main fire leaving a burnt area to take shelter.

I've done it when the tractor got stuck in a burning wheat field. Instead of a big hot fire front it got my small initial burn and a lessened main burn. Still had to replace tyres nd the plastic bonnet but the glass was ok and the diesel didnt go.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 17 Nov 2018 15:06:19 No.1398316 Report

Quoted By: >>1398319 >>1398349 >>1399389

>>1397515

that makes no sense. If you turn around 360 degrees, you would just be facing the same direction you were originally facing dumbass

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO welcome_out.png, 392KiB, 500x376

Anonymous Sat 17 Nov 2018 15:15:47 No.1398319 Report

Quoted By:

>>1398316
welcome newfren

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 17 Nov 2018 16:12:10 No.1398349 Report

Quoted By:

>>1398316
I meant 360 degrees Fahrenheit obviously.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Nov 2018 11:53:45 No.1398839 Report

Quoted By:

>>1396027
You don't hike in thunderstorms. Easy

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Nov 2018 12:00:53 No.1398841 Report

Quoted By:

>>1396027
Strayan.
Stop ahead of the fire.
Light a new fire.
Let it run.
Step into the burnt patch of your fire.
Get low and dig a body scrape if you can.
Original fire goes around your burn patch.
It joins up with your fire but no difference as it was going to burn anyway.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Nov 2018 04:40:07 No.1399381 Report

Quoted By:

>>1396409
Even though you're an ignorant poser I'm glad you bumped the thread so that actually knowledgeable people like this dude could post
>>1396740

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO 1539437054221.jpg, 55KiB, 704x294

Anonymous Mon 19 Nov 2018 04:49:04 No.1399389 Report

Quoted By:

>>1398316

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Nov 2018 05:51:16 No.1399411 Report

Quoted By:

>>1396027
I take it as God's way of saying it's time, I walk into the blaze with a smile on my face.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Nov 2018 22:26:31 No.1400342 Report

Quoted By:

>>1396027
if its like in your picture a single man can do nothing
.
also one time a dog took a burning stick from our fire and dragged it across the dry pine duff and we woke up to a fellow campmate hollering FIRE! we put on our boots and grabbed the shovel and stomped out a spreading 20 foot fire line

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO 20170725_122525.jpg, 4MiB, 3984x2241

Anonymous Tue 20 Nov 2018 22:50:18 No.1400348 Report

Quoted By:

>>1396803
We (canadians) dont carry them. Theyre meant for fast moving fires in lighter fuels, most of what we fight fire in is more forest fuel types and if you tried to use them in that youd just coo
Pic v related

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO 1432847736231.png, 463KiB, 1070x601

Anonymous Wed 21 Nov 2018 02:29:00 No.1400439 Report

Quoted By:

Run into the fire you dumbass
Take two guns on your hiking trip
Say your goodbyes
Run into the fire
Two shots into your brain from two angles
Should be enough to take care of the pain quickly

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Nov 2018 16:29:58 No.1401847 Report

Quoted By:

>>1397520
The ones who didn't make it were doing dumbass shit like postponing evacuation to put on makeup first. The non-retarded ones had time and didn't die.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Nov 2018 22:41:39 No.1402561 Report

Quoted By:

run from it?
are you fat or something

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Nov 2018 01:36:06 No.1402679 Report

Quoted By:

>>1396087
>>1396142

t. Retards who have never seen a forest fire and don't know how fast they can move

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Nov 2018 11:41:06 No.1402924 Report

Quoted By:

I live in England so it's never dry enough for shit to catch on fire like this

Capcode	All Only User Posts Only Verified Posts Only Moderator Posts Only Manager Posts Only Admin Posts Only Developer Posts Only Founder Posts
Show Posts	All Only With Images Only Without Images Only Spoiler Images Only Non-Spoiler Images
Deleted Posts	All Only Deleted Posts Only Non-Deleted Posts
Ghost Posts	All Only Ghost Posts Only Non-Ghost Posts
Post Type	All Only Sticky Threads Only Opening Posts Only Reply Posts
Results	All Grouped By Threads
Order	Latest Posts First Oldest Posts First

On these archives

Your latest searches