JC Orozco Reforestation, Inc

Birthday shoutout to our EngineBoss 🥳
Birthdays during fire season are just not the same. Let’s wish Javier a Happy late Birthday.

JC Orozco Crew on the Salt Creek Fire 2024 🔥

Today we celebrate and honor every wildland firefighter, support staff, and contractor who work together to protect life, property, and natural and cultural resources. Thank you for your dedication and service.

Due to current and expected fire activity and resource needs, Alaska increased to a Preparedness Level ( ) at noon today. The highest level is 5.

According to the Alaska Interagency Mobilization Guide, PL 4 means: Multiple units experiencing fire starts and/or two project fires. Probability of ignition is high and burning conditions of high to extreme in all fuel types. Resistance to control is high to extreme and resistance to extinguishment is high. More than 50 percent of non-tactical resources are committed; more than 75 percent of tactical resources are committed to new ignitions. Existing weather pattern supporting fire activity is forecasted to remain for the next three to five days.

A new large fire, the Darlene Fire, is burning 1 mile SE of La Pine, OR. It is currently 2,415 acres and 30% contained. There are road closures and evacuations in progress. This is one of 6 large wildfires in the PNW. Gusty winds are expected today especially east of the Cascades, generally easing tonight except downwind of the lower Cascade Gaps. Additional info can be found at https://gacc.nifc.gov/nwcc/.

Tenemos un Curso de primeros auxilios CPR el 14 de Junio.

Si es Serruchero necesita esta clase cada 2 años!

Para más información mándenme un mensaje

Último Refresher
Junio 22
Para más info comuníquese con Krystal o por el WhatsApp

Tenemos clase de Refresher este Domingo 19 de Mayo. Para más detalles comuníquese con Krystal Orozco.

Unpcoming Refresher class may 19th. For more info contact Krystal Orozco

🔥Clase de Serruchero
🔥4/27/24
🔥Salem, Oregon

CLASE DE REFRESHER SÁBADO
ABRIL 20, 2024
Para más info comuníquese con Krystal Orozco

** WILDFIRE EVACUATION NOTICE FOR BEDROCK FIRE NEAR FALL CREEK (08/14 @ 0841)**

LEVEL 3 (GO NOW) EVACUATION NOTICE FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS:

🔴 Peninsula Road east of Timber Creek
🔴 Big Fall Creek Road east of the intersection with Peninsula Road

Level 3 means leave immediately! Do NOT take time to gather things. GO NOW! There is immediate and imminent danger and you should evacuate immediately.

❗ The Red Cross has opened a shelter for people and small, domestic pets at Lowell High School (65 Pioneer Street).

🐎 Residents who need assistance with large animal evacuation should call Lane County Animal Services at 541-285-8227. A large animal shelter is being set up at the Lane County Fairgrounds (796 W. 13th Avenue, Eugene).

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The following areas are on a Level 2 (Be Set) evacuation notification:

🟡 Big Fall Creek Road east of Winberry Creek Road to Peninsula Road
🟡 Peninsula Road along the south of Fall Creek Reservoir to Timber Creek
🟡 Winberry Creek Road east of milepost 4.0

Level 2 means: You must prepare to leave at a moment’s notice, and this may be the only notice that you receive.
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An evacuation map is available at www.LaneCountyOR.gov/Bedrock

Residents are encouraged to sign up for emergency alerts at www.LaneAlerts.org

The West Oregon District is going into “Extreme” Fire Danger tonight at midnight in WO2 and WO3. Regulated use waivers for campfires are invalid during "Extreme" fire danger levels. It will be valid again once fire danger levels go back to "High". Please take extreme cautious this upcoming week as temperatures could soar into the 100s on Sunday and Monday.

𝙁𝙄𝙍𝙀 𝘿𝘼𝙉𝙂𝙀𝙍 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝙄𝙁𝙋𝙇 𝙄𝙉𝘾𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙎𝙀: Due to dry vegetation, hot conditions, and numerous active fires in the region, the fire danger level on lands protected by the Oregon Department of Forestry in Jackson and Josephine counties will increase to “extreme” (red) at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, July 29, 2023, and the Industrial Fire Precaution Level (IFPL) will increase to Level 3 (three). These regulations impact 1.8 million acres of state, private, county, city and Bureau of Land Management lands protected by ODF’s Southwest Oregon District.

Beginning Saturday morning at 12:01 a.m., the following public fire restrictions will take effect:

• The use of power saws is prohibited, excluding electric chainsaws.
• The cutting, grinding and welding of metal is prohibited.
• The mowing of dry or dead grass is prohibited.
• The operation of any other spark-emitting internal combustion engine not specifically mentioned above is prohibited.

The following fire prevention regulations are currently in effect and will remain in effect until the fire danger level drops significantly:

• Smoking is prohibited while traveling, except in vehicles on improved roads, in boats on the water, and designated locations.
• Debris burning, including the use of burn barrels, is prohibited.
• Open fires are prohibited, including campfires, charcoal fires, cooking fires and warming fires, except in approved fire rings at designated campgrounds. In other locations clear of vegetation, portable cooking stoves using liquefied or bottled fuels are allowed.
• Fireworks on or within 1/8th of a mile of ODF-protected land are prohibited.
• Any electric fence controller in use shall be listed by a nationally recognized testing laboratory or be certified by the Department of Consumer and Business Services; and operated in compliance with the manufacturer’s fire-safe instructions.
• The use of exploding targets is prohibited.
• The use of tracer ammunition or any bullet with a pyrotechnic charge in its base is prohibited.
• Motor vehicles, including motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles, may only be used on improved roads free of flammable vegetation, except when used for the commercial culture and harvest of agricultural crops.
• Possession of the following firefighting equipment is required while traveling, except on state highways, county roads and driveways: one shovel and one gallon of water or one 2.5 pound or larger fire extinguisher. All-terrain vehicles and motorcycles must be equipped with one 2.5 pound or larger fire extinguisher.

Under IFPL III, the following are prohibited between 1:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.:

• Power saws at loading sites;
• Loading or hauling of any product or material;
• Blasting;
• Welding, cutting, or grinding of metal;
• Any other spark emitting operation not specifically mentioned.

In addition, the following are permitted to operate overnight to the morning, between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m., where mechanized equipment capable of constructing fire line is immediately available to quickly reach and effectively attack a fire start:

• Ground-based operations (tractor/skidder, feller-buncher, forwarder, or shovel logging operations);
• Power saws on ground-based operations;
• Rotary head saw feller-bunchers with a continuous Firewatch;
• Non-rotary head saw feller-bunchers;
• Tethered logging - winch-assisted, cable-assisted, traction-assisted, etc. systems, which enable ground- based timber harvesting machines to operate on steep slopes.
This is considered a restricted shutdown and the following activities are not permitted at any time, except as noted:
• Cable yarding systems, except that gravity operated logging systems using non-motorized carriages or approved motorized carriages may operate between 8:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m., when all blocks and moving lines are suspended at least 10 feet above the ground (except the line between the carriage and the chokers).

In addition, pursuant to ORS 477.665 and OAR 629-043-0030, the fire watch requirement for this level is reduced from a minimum of three hours to a minimum of two hours during breaks and at the end of the operation period.

For more information about the Oregon Department of Forestry Southwest Oregon District’s fire season restrictions, visit our website, www.swofire.com.

When I put this post up, I asked people to guess what they are doing to get the Flat Fire in Curry County here in Oregon under control.

Only ONE guess was spot on. That has been left visible. They are doing burnouts off roads to get this fire contained. The roads make perfect hard points to begin the operations. Fire fighters have been hand throwing flares, or using flare guns to get ignitions below the roads. That burns out a buffer zone and establishes a line below the roads. Drones and larger Unmanned Aerial Vehicles/ UAVs are then used to go down slope into the really rugged terrain to ignite fires that work upslope into the burn ignited from the road. Crews and engines backed up helicopters in daylight will watch to make sure no spot fires get established over the control lines.

So far this approach has been working like a charm. So why not keep doing it? In the image below you can see they are doing just that now on the south edge of the fire.

Contrary to popular belief, this is not roadless wilderness area in all parts of the fire area. There are LOTS of roads. If you look at a map of the area, it is very obvious. But, there is also a lot of really rugged terrain out here too. Even back in the days with more aggressive fire fighting tactics, this was country in which a fire could really take off if it got established. And, no fire fighter wanted to get out in this country to fight a fire in.

A fire in this area that I have not heard mentioned at all is the 1987 Silver Fire. It became the largest of the fires that sparked on August 30th, 1987, in a historic dry lightning burst that ignited dozens of fires. The Silver Fire would become the largest at 97,000 acres. It was not fully secured until the rain and snow came. It was the first mega fire any of us had seen. It was the foretelling of what was to come. Being in that terrain on that fire gave me a mind blowing experience on how tough that country is over there.

So for those of you who think they should have put it out long ago......you would be in a fetal position begging to go home within the first hour of you attempting to do what fire fighters are. Actually, I don't think some of you would last a half hour. So let's give the fire fighters a break shall we? Fire command has develeoped a very effective strategy on this fire and it is working. .

Flat Fire Quick Facts
Acres: 23,678
Total personnel: 1,644
Crews: 38
Helicopters: 11
Engines: 50
Bull dozers: 8
Water Tenders: 34
Masticators: 8

Taken yesterday 7/26, firefighters on WA-COF Engine 332 are using water to cool off hot areas during firing operations in the southwest area of the fire.
Image Credit: Jacob Welsh, Public Information Officer

With two new fires in the Pacific Northwest geographic area, we are going to a Preparedness Level 3. A new fire, Bedrock, is burning 27 miles SE of Eugene, OR. It currently is 300 acres, but is anticipated to grow. An incident management team is being deployed to the fire. The second fire, Golden, is burning 12 miles SW of Beatty, OR. It is 2,000 acres and has Level 3 Evacuations. An Oregon Department of Forestry incident management team is being deployed. The Oregon State Fire Marshal has mobilized resources to the fire to protect life and property.

This picture was taken yesterday 7/17 in the afternoon looking downstream on the Rogue River.
Image Credit: Dana Leavitt, Public Information Officer
Acres: 8,204
Total personnel: 378
Crews: 13
Helicopters: 7
Engines: 16
Bull dozers: 2
Water Tenders: 2