Wildfire CLAWR

[femme.fatale.]

My husband was evacuated from the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range on Saturday. Has anyone else been evacuated??

This fire is massive! I've been stepping on every single spider and hoping for rain. We need it badly

 

[pano-dude]

No evac for me in lac la biche but following the fire.
Crazy it's doubling every day

 

[femme.fatale.]

Today it's like 17,000 hectares - that's 42,000 acres. That's insane! Do fires normally grow so quickly??

 

[Absledder]

Luckily I'm on days off now, but I don't think I'll be going back to foster on Thursday unless something drastic happens. I don't know about the cnrl guys but I heard the last 100 people at foster had to be evacuated by helicopter to conklin?


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[femme.fatale.]

Luckily I'm on days off now, but I don't think I'll be going back to foster on Thursday unless something drastic happens. I don't know about the cnrl guys but I heard the last 100 people at foster had to be evacuated by helicopter to conklin?


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Cenovus said they evacuated the remaining staff by helicopter in their press release the other day

 

[arff]

Today it's like 17,000 hectares - that's 42,000 acres. That's insane! Do fires normally grow so quickly??

Yes, When the fire creates its own weather patterns, they can feed back into how the fire spreads. Large, violent wildfires can generate winds, called fire whirls. Fire whirls, which are like tornadoes, result from the vortices created by the fire's heat. When these vortices are tilted from horizontal to vertical, you get fire whirls. Fire whirls have been known to hurl flaming logs and burning debris over considerable distances."There's another way that you can tilt the vorticity. That is it can be titled without breaking into fire whirls, and basically be burst forward into what's called hairpin vortices or forward bursts," Clark said. "These are quite common in crown fires [fires at the top of trees], and so you see fires licking up hill sides." Forward bursts can be 20 meters (66 feet) wide and shoot out 100 meters (328 feet) at a speed of 100 mph (161 kph). These bursts leave a scorched region and lead to fire spread.
The stronger the wind blows, the faster the fire spreads. The fire generates winds of its own that are as many as 10 times faster than the ambient wind. It can even throw embers into the air and create additional fires, an occurrence called spotting. Wind can also change the direction of the fire, and gusts can raise the fire into the trees, creating a crown fire.
While wind can help the fire to spread, moisture works against the fire. Moisture, in the form of humidity and precipitation, can slow the fire down and reduce its intensity. Potential fuels can be hard to ignite if they have high levels of moisture, because the moisture absorbs the fire's heat. When the humidity is low, meaning that there is a low amount of water vapor in the air, wildfires are more likely to start. The higher the humidity, the less likely the fuel is to dry and ignite.

 

[ferniesnow]

Yes, When the fire creates its own weather patterns, they can feed back into how the fire spreads. Large, violent wildfires can generate winds, called fire whirls. Fire whirls, which are like tornadoes, result from the vortices created by the fire's heat. When these vortices are tilted from horizontal to vertical, you get fire whirls. Fire whirls have been known to hurl flaming logs and burning debris over considerable distances."There's another way that you can tilt the vorticity. That is it can be titled without breaking into fire whirls, and basically be burst forward into what's called hairpin vortices or forward bursts," Clark said. "These are quite common in crown fires [fires at the top of trees], and so you see fires licking up hill sides." Forward bursts can be 20 meters (66 feet) wide and shoot out 100 meters (328 feet) at a speed of 100 mph (161 kph). These bursts leave a scorched region and lead to fire spread.
The stronger the wind blows, the faster the fire spreads. The fire generates winds of its own that are as many as 10 times faster than the ambient wind. It can even throw embers into the air and create additional fires, an occurrence called spotting. Wind can also change the direction of the fire, and gusts can raise the fire into the trees, creating a crown fire.
While wind can help the fire to spread, moisture works against the fire. Moisture, in the form of humidity and precipitation, can slow the fire down and reduce its intensity. Potential fuels can be hard to ignite if they have high levels of moisture, because the moisture absorbs the fire's heat. When the humidity is low, meaning that there is a low amount of water vapor in the air, wildfires are more likely to start. The higher the humidity, the less likely the fuel is to dry and ignite.

Isn't the Fire Putter Outer Guy a wealth of knowledge! Im thinking he could write a book or maybe did write a book!

 

[arff]

Isn't the Fire Putter Outer Guy a wealth of knowledge! Im thinking he could write a book or maybe did write a book!

No time to write a book.

Working on another project now.

It has to do with wildfires. Lol.

 

[storm1972]

Yes, When the fire creates its own weather patterns, they can feed back into how the fire spreads. Large, violent wildfires can generate winds, called fire whirls. Fire whirls, which are like tornadoes, result from the vortices created by the fire's heat. When these vortices are tilted from horizontal to vertical, you get fire whirls. Fire whirls have been known to hurl flaming logs and burning debris over considerable distances."There's another way that you can tilt the vorticity. That is it can be titled without breaking into fire whirls, and basically be burst forward into what's called hairpin vortices or forward bursts," Clark said. "These are quite common in crown fires [fires at the top of trees], and so you see fires licking up hill sides." Forward bursts can be 20 meters (66 feet) wide and shoot out 100 meters (328 feet) at a speed of 100 mph (161 kph). These bursts leave a scorched region and lead to fire spread.
The stronger the wind blows, the faster the fire spreads. The fire generates winds of its own that are as many as 10 times faster than the ambient wind. It can even throw embers into the air and create additional fires, an occurrence called spotting. Wind can also change the direction of the fire, and gusts can raise the fire into the trees, creating a crown fire.
While wind can help the fire to spread, moisture works against the fire. Moisture, in the form of humidity and precipitation, can slow the fire down and reduce its intensity. Potential fuels can be hard to ignite if they have high levels of moisture, because the moisture absorbs the fire's heat. When the humidity is low, meaning that there is a low amount of water vapor in the air, wildfires are more likely to start. The higher the humidity, the less likely the fuel is to dry and ignite.

Did you just pull that out of your ass? That sounds pretty deep coming from the ray I know lol


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[arff]

Did you just pull that out of your ass? That sounds pretty deep coming from the ray I know lol


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I am working on another project so have been doing research for a bit.

But most of it we teach in classes.

 

[storm1972]

I am working on another project so have been doing research for a bit.

But most of it we teach in classes.

Beer project? Rum project or fix your Rzr project?


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[imdoo'n]

Beer project? Rum project or fix your Rzr project?


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find a way to repay Neil project!!!!

 

[arff]

Beer project? Rum project or fix your Rzr project?


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No a firefighting project.

 

[Puba]

Luckily I'm on days off now, but I don't think I'll be going back to foster on Thursday unless something drastic happens. I don't know about the cnrl guys but I heard the last 100 people at foster had to be evacuated by helicopter to conklin?


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CNRL is down also.

 

[femme.fatale.]

Dale is CNRL property okay? like has it been affected by this yet? I thought Primrose was closer to the fire than Foster Creek


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[Puba]

We shut our rigs in. It's precautionary.

 

[Absledder]

I heard a few pads at primrose were surrounded by fire, but they'll have to wait until the fire is over to check out the damage. Heard this from a field operator at primrose south.


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[j335]

Foster shut down, CNRL Primose down, half of CNRL Kirby South down, MEG Christina is deferring their turnaround as they were in process of shutting down, Statoil evacuated non essential staff, and a bunch of smaller gas plants/construction jobs.

 

[pipes]

Just got a briefing this Morning from management. Only one mile away From N01 Pad at Nabiye Field Imperial Oil Resources. Smokey as hell at the Plant. SRD says we are not in any immediate danger but is keeping us posted on any changes.

 

[femme.fatale.]

What are the implications should the fire reach Nabiye, pipes? Like there's not a foreseeable circumstance in which that's not a horribly bad happening,


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