Fire on Isle Royale

[Woody]

About 500 acres so far, fire thought to be caused by lightning.

https://www.mininggazette.com/news/2021/09/isle-royale-fire-45-contained/

 

[Gofirstclass]

That's a shame, but on the lighter side, it can't spread very far and no homes are in danger.

 

[Stee6043]

It's very interesting to see how the fire appears to have jumped from at least one island to another, and spared one in between?

 

[OllieC]

The North Shore has had some weather the last few days with supposed severe thunderstorms. Some of them coming across to the S. Shore. It is my understanding today is suppose to be nasty out as well. Swells to 8' in the Port Wing Area, which i'm sure translates to the North.

 

[JHornsby3]

Embers can float as far as three to five miles and start spot fires. Mother nature just cleaning up the forests. She sometimes takes better care of the forests than the forest circus.

 

[OllieC]

Looks like its still going...

https://www.nps.gov/isro/planyourvisit/conditions.htm

 

[JHornsby3]

Looks as though it's small enough that they are treating it as a Rx burn. That and they are probably very short staffed due to all red carded fire fighters are in Ca battling the tinderboxes.

 

[my3sons]

I’m not sure if it still applies to all federal/national park land, but the policy used to be that if no lives are in danger, a fire started by man is fought, and a fire started by God is allowed to run it’s course. That may have changed, it was a long time ago that a Wyoming elk guide told me that.

 

[JHornsby3]

Currently due to the growing severity of fires, we are in a fight it hard and put it out way of fighting them. But with a park that is able to be treated as a prescribed burn, then they will monitor and act as needed. With the fires out on this side of the country, it's fight it hard and stop it.

it really sad that so many are leaving the wildland fire scene. Very low pay and bad food (if you would want to call it that), they are loosing men and women at a very fast rate. Women are treated extremely bad. It is a mans world, so they say. So the drive to bring in woman is at a crawl. And at less than $12 an hour, it's not worth a living to stay. And contractors have been sitting and waiting to be called into the game. So many of them have moved into a forest management roll in the private sector. So as fires grow in size and are becoming more aggressive, they are now short staffed and being stretched very thin.

So a fire like this might be handled by the local volunteer's until it gets really bad.