Brotherhood of Firemen

[Loony661]

We just had a small hay fire today on some of our hay ground. I didn't get to help fight it since I was an hour away working. I didn't get big and was stopped fairly quickly.

A disc bine set it off.

The Town I was working in had a couple of fire calls today. The one group was still out fighting the one fire when I left work. They had been at it for 5 hours at that point. They were pulling other fire departments in to help.

Disk bine must have caught a rock? Or did a bearing have a “thermal event”?

 

[redneckhillbilly]

we had a .10 of an acre wildfire about 20 miles south of me, they rolled 4 tenders and 6 type 6 engines to it. I am very happy to see the dnrc and forest service rolling that much gear to little fires.

an old Incident comander once told me "go hard go quick" and its nice to see the big wigs throwing rescources to quickly get these fire attacked

 

[Powerstroke Cowboy]

Disk bine must have caught a rock? Or did a bearing have a “thermal event”?

I'm assuming it was a rock.

 

[Powerstroke Cowboy]

Sitting in the tender watching the mop-up.

 

[Loony661]

Sitting in the tender watching the mop-up.
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Nice - looks like ya’ll got it before it got too big.

 

[redneckhillbilly]

any idea what sparked it?

 

[Powerstroke Cowboy]

any idea what sparked it?

A swather caught on fire and started the field fire. A sickle mower.

Nice - looks like ya’ll got it before it got too big.

We had three departments show on site as well as DNRC and some guys from Michigan. It was windy. Fortunately it got stopped where it did. If it hadn't there a good chance it could have ran for miles. Nothing but dead grass and field ready for harvest for miles.

This was the third fire I've been too in the last three days.