****'s on Fire, Yo! *Contest*

Wylaff

My weekend out camping was cut short by the forest I was in bursting into flames and the sheriff telling us to get the hell out and avoid the main roads. And yes, outrunning a forest fire on back roads you are unfamiliar with while your family is panicking in the car is EXACTLY as relaxing as it sounds... I haven't done a contest in awhile, so I will share the love. Whoever guesses the closest to acres destroyed by the time they call 100% containment will receive a little gift.

For reference, it is the Hog Fire in Northern California, and at the moment of posting this, it is 5200 acres at 0% containment.

silvermouse

Glad you all got out OK.

Usaf06

1 million acres. Including the city of san Francisco

rsherman24

I can not imagine driving through that with my wife. Glad you made it out safe

3, 625 acres

deadman

Glad you made it out safe.

60,000 acres

peter4jc

ay caramba!

42,500

Wylaff

Funny anecdote. Eli (6 years old) was yelling about how the fire destroyed hot air balloons and they were crashing everywhere. Turns out that at one point in time a helicopter with a basket came down nearby (20 yards or so) to scoop water from the river. But every time I see one of those copters I will now think of exploding hot air balloons crashing in the water.

webmost

I remember driving back from Big Bear via Forest Home, settin' in the back of the Rambler station wagon, watching the fire jump direct from a hillside one side of the road to the hillside on the other. I'm sure Dad appreciated all five of my sisters shrieking at the same time.

200k

Yakster

Glad you and the family are safe, Wayne. I was lucky to get out of a forest fire situation when I was driving on the fire roads into the country around Shasta.

150 k acres or 24 M square rods.

Trykflyr_1

i'll jump in...Seeing as it's kinda out in the boonies where no "important" people live, they're probably not going to work this too hard.

55,000 acres, or as it's known up here, a campfire.

Glad you guys got out. These things are scary fast.

Guitarded

Glad you and the family made it out safely!
Thanks for the contest.
3.14x3140= 9859.6 acres up in smoke.

Yakster

@Yakster said:
Glad you and the family are safe, Wayne. I was lucky to get out of a forest fire situation when I was driving on the fire roads into the country around Shasta.

150 k acres or 24 M square rods or 2.9 Trillion square cubits.

Wylaff

@Trykflyr_1 said:
i'll jump in...Seeing as it's kinda out in the boonies where no "important" people live, they're probably not going to work this too hard.

55,000 acres, or as it's known up here, a campfire.

Glad you guys got out. These things are scary fast.

6 helicopters, 29 engines, 19 brush crews. The problem is that it is on steep granite cliff faces and difficult to get in and fight. A lot of those parts of Lassen are considered uncross-able. It's at 5800 acres currently.

NorCalR1

18K acres.

Glad you are safe!

Vision

56176 acres

CalvinAndHobo

Yikes, glad you're ok. 300,000 acres.

Patrickbrick

Damn dude, that does not sound fun.

ShawnOL

Glad you made it out safe.

IndustMech

Glad you and the family are safe, Wayne

84,250 acres

genareddog

Glad you guys are ok.
84,251 acres

VegasFrank

50,000.1 acres

TNBigfoot68

235,000 acres

Usaf06

@Usaf06 said:
1 million acres. Including the city of san Francisco

did you disagree with the 1 million acres or the San Francisco part?

Yakster

The SF part.

TBonz

Glad you are safe! I have a friend down the road from you in Minden who used to fight those fires so I have a pretty good understanding from our conversations over a couple of beers. Thanks for the contest...

21012 acres...

Wylaff

9420 at 9%. The winds blew it back on itself, and the part that was threatening town seems to be out. Our campsite was lost, but if they winds stay true it will hopefully be a small one.
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About 1,087 personnel are working the fire, 147 engines, 31 water tenders, 21 hand crews, 33 dozers and numerous firefighting air tankers, as conditions allow._

TheKraken

Glad y'all were ok! Wow, massive amount of people working on it.

40K acres

Wylaff

A natural storm went through and mixed with the thunderstorm caused by the fire leaving... hail in a forest fire. (way on the outskirts of the fire, but still pretty cool)

Rhamlin

2,000,000,000 acres

Wylaff

9564 acres, 72% contained. It looks like most of the burning is the downed trees in the middle smoldering. Barring any unforeseen storms, this will likely be the final count. Which would put @rsherman24 the closest at 6k off. Will verify when it hits 100%.

Wylaff

98% at 9564 acres and it hasn't changed all week. I'm going to call it there. @rsherman24 Richard, have you moved in the last couple years? If not I will get something out to you this weekend.