Randox Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 Ok, there have definatly been bigger, but this is definatly the largest forrest fire in Nova Scotia ever (or atleast since humans have been here). Anyways, mid afternoon last friday the brush fire started and by Saturday afternoon was over 12 km long and 3 km wide. It was fueled by winds gusting up to 100 km/h for 2 days so there were no ground crews fighting the advance, yesterday we had 1 water bomber and 5 helicopters fighting the fire with some ground crews attacking the rear of the fire. Today, most of the helicoptors were recalled to New Brunswic to fight fires there, but Quebec sent another water bomber and there is still atleast 1 helicoptor fighting this fire (the other 6 Nova Scotia helies would be fighting other small fires around the province). Anyways, I live on the only road that is not under eveacuation standby that has not already been put under mandatory evacuation. The winds have finaly died down and with 2 water bombers making runs that are 5 minutes at most, they are making good progress even if they still can't really controll the advance of the fire. I have taken over 150 pictures of the fire and shall upload some of the highlights. The pictures do not really do the real thing justice but some are spectacular non the less. An apology, I had no idea the picutres are this big since viewing programs scale them down. I am NOT uploading them again so you can save them or deal with it I guess. Untill you get to the last 4 pictures there are NO LARGE CLOUDS IN THE SKY! its almost ALL smoke! [hide=full size pics. BIG.]http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/397/p6130404hi6.jpg http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/6666/p6130423sb2.jpg http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/9004/p6130427ya9.jpg http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/5788/p6130433ik7.jpg http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/6643/p6130437yg3.jpg http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/2756/p6130468td6.jpg http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/6282/p6130474dw2.jpg http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/3226/p6140491mb2.jpg http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/1768/p6150002xu7.jpg http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/3139/p6150004xj3.jpg http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/9071/p6150004bj4.jpg http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/2188/p6150023er4.jpg http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/3868/p6150044we2.jpg[/hide] [hide=800x600 size pictures] [/hide] A little scary being nearly surrounded, but we have been lucky with not having to be evacuated. We have the boat ready to go in the water in the event some huge gust of wind causes out escape route to disapear but were still a good distance away. We have also been lucky about the lack of smoke so no breating difivulties here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runescapeloser22 Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 HUGE PICS!! Make them smaller, I can't see them :lol: Sounds pretty scary, at least your safe right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xvillexvalox Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 Wow, hope you get lucky and it doesn't get to you, I have a friend who lives in California who was in a forest fire, he was fine but some of his friends lost houses. I like that you put up large pictures, I think I'm going to make the 5th or 6th one my desktop if you don't mind. The ones at night look great as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randox Posted June 15, 2008 Author Share Posted June 15, 2008 I'm safe, and my house is safe even if the fire gets close. I live on what is nearly an island and with the water bombers filling in our lake and with a hyrant conected to a pond on our road, theres almost no chance of the fire reaching us without some major winds. The fire is dying, and there letting some people back to there homes now. They think it was started behind an elementry school so that would be some stupid little kids playing with matches who didn't have the sense to stomp on a match when they dropped it. If thats what is was then they better live with some pretty big guild for the rest fo their lives since they definatly got at least 2 houses burned to the ground and many more probably damaged. I guess I should fix the pics since they are rediculesly large. Will take about 5 minutes at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nadril Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 Your fault for living in the forest. :lol: Seriously though hope you get out of it alright. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echofish Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 Guh, massive pics. I can't see em... Looks scary, hope you stay safe. Ultra Unholy,Hearted Machine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenin64 Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 More of the actual fire....? No....? Command the Murderous Chalices! Drink ye harpooners! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow- Death to Moby Dick!BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randox Posted June 15, 2008 Author Share Posted June 15, 2008 More of the actual fire....? No....? I'm fairly sure that when I transfered the pics I might have gotten a couple wrong. ANyways I'll see if I can get some more of the real fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sbrideau Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 Quite amazing what a little fire behind an elementary school can become lol. Anyways, I think I'm lucky enough to live so far from the New Bruwnswick fires that we see no smoke :P. I think the fires are much in the south, like ppl at Sussex/Fredericton/Moncton could see it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klankaos Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Yeah, I've heard about that one, and I'm in BC =P There have been a bunch of evacuations here too, it's seeming to be a bad season for forest fires... But not as bad as the Kelowna one, lol. That was HUGE. I hope you get out of this okay, it could be pretty bad for you if you end up having to get evacuated... Being immature is a part of being mature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsavi Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 My relatives have been repeatedly evacuted from their homes in California due to forrest fires. Some of those are pretty cool pics, btw but I'm sure you have other things to worry about. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megakiller32 Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 The area where you live is nice Done here in London (the UK one) it dirty and crap-riddled. Atleast nobody was injured :thumbsup: Quit Runescape 30th May 2006.Thanks to Hawkxs for my signature :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenticular_J Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 The area where you live is nice Done here in London (the UK one) it dirty and crap-riddled. Atleast nobody was injured :thumbsup: Yet. We have fires here all the time, only they're grass fires. Burn themselves out within the day, even if they're large. Good luck not becoming a Randox-kebab. catch it now so you can like it before it went so mainstream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IGoddessI Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Get off the computer and help out :P The only people who tell you that you can't do something are those who have already given up on their own dreams so feel the need to discourage yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquariusman Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 They think it was started behind an elementry school so that would be some stupid little kids playing with matches who didn't have the sense to stomp on a match when they dropped it. *Remembers cousin setting an acre of field on fire* There's no such thing as regret. A regret means you are unhappy with the person you are now,and if you're unhappy with the person you are, you change yourself. Thatregret will no longer be a regret, because it will help to form the new,better you. So really, a regret isn't a regret. It's experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latinoking Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Get off the computer and help out :P With buckets? I'm glad you're safe Randox. I am Teh_King[My dA][My Last.FM][My Twitter] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronzewarrior Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 get all the vials of water in your bank and use on fire. USE YOUR GEYSER TITAN get a list of all people with 99 firemaking in the area. Have them detained and waterboarded. Well anyway, that must be some scary crap dude, being surrouned by a huge fire. If that did happen, make sure to get Klarense to give you a boat to get to the center of the lake. (^iffy dragon slayer reference ftl) 2nd troll to 840+ post count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IGoddessI Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Get off the computer and help out :P With buckets? I'm glad you're safe Randox. Some buckets is better than no buckets. Think of the couple of trees you could save and maybe some racoon like creature :lol: The only people who tell you that you can't do something are those who have already given up on their own dreams so feel the need to discourage yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fgfuyfyuiuy0 Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 We had a huge one burn right by my house. It was literally by it. Yours seems pretty far away. My house is below the smoke line. My work is even closer to it as I work at the grocery store by it. The fire went on pretty badly for 3 days. It was started by a contractor. I still had to work even when people weren't allowed in the grocery store. It rained down ash constantly. That was crazy :| EDIT: The video I found on YouTube was not filmed by me. Kind of weird, though, because I know exactly what roads those guys are driving on. They drove by my sister's house at the time. I <3 Gears of War 2. Add me on Xbox Live and mention you are from Tif :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen9o3 Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 Dude, you live in Halifax? I live in Truro :thumbsup: Combat FTL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sbrideau Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 I'm going on a trip to Halifax next week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r4ngewarlord Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 woah thoes smoke clouds are massive! thats one big fire Gamertag: EFs Predator.Games I play: Halo 3, Halo wars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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