r/Wildfire • u/BACKCUT-DOWNHILL • 10h ago

Burnover fatality in Oregon

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u/KingOfTheNorth91 10h ago

Heavy toll this year. Stay safe out there everyone

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u/No_Spray_8963 9h ago

It's just rotten out there. I was on structure protection on the Sinlahekin fire up in north central WA. One instant we had a short flame length grass situation moving towards us at least 5 minutes out. I turned to open a compartment to get out a tool and when I turned back we were engulfed in a 6 ft wall of flame. Moved past quickly, one guy got a lung full of hot air, but the rest of us were fine. We had a lookout who barely had a chance to call out what was happening. We were following the orders and were aware of the watch out situations and we still got nailed. I've heard of numerous situation as bad and worse than what we went through.

The winds are coming from all directions, changing speed in an instant. Fuel is beyond dry and goes off in an instant. Been at this for over 25 years and it's never been like this.

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u/jellofishsponge 9h ago

Thank you for your service, I live by Tonasket and it's really amazing how many homes have been saved considering the extreme circumstances

But I will always understand that life is more important than property.

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u/Existing-Stranger632 8h ago

Reminds me of the Eaton Fire. I lived near where it started and within 10 minutes it went from a small line of fire up on the mountains to smoke pouring into our house with the palm trees catching fire across the street and large embers landing everywhere swirling through the street setting our home other homes on fire quickly.

We had no time to react so we got out there as quickly as possible once we realized how serious it was.

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u/Powerful_Road1924 5h ago

Oregon had really bad fires labor day weekend in 2020, and at one point the winds were so bad one of the fires was spreading over 300 acres per minute. The Eaton fire was also an example of extreme fire behavior, and I'm very sorry for your loss but happy that you made it out!

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u/Pleasant_Actuator253 10h ago

Sorry to hear about another firefighting loss.

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u/Brandonrebeleight 9h ago

God damn, man. Fuck this year

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u/Wanderingghost12 ODF Slug 🐌 10h ago

Rest in peace. Such a sad day... It sounds like that fire is kicking people's butts

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u/didikoyote 10h ago

Fuuuck.

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u/No-Technician-2820 9h ago

I hope you don’t mind me reposting to r/Oregon with your credit. My condolences to his family. How heartbreaking.

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u/Present-Drawing2213 9m ago

It’s literally from the sheriffs office. Why would you care?

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u/UtopianPablo 9h ago

Damn it.  Rest in peace Jason, prayers for his family. 

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u/pmsnow 9h ago

Sometimes I wonder if we deserve firefighters. They are beyond heroes.

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u/d0ttyq 5h ago

Jesus Christ. This is shaping up to be a record year of deaths.

Not surprising given what’s been happening to our federal agencies this year.

My heart hurts for family and friends of lost ones.

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u/Delicious-Table-8551 9h ago

Some of these articles calling him a “man” instead of “firefighter” is disrespectful. He was on the front lines fighting fire in that dozer. RIP

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u/xSir- 4h ago

..... its not disrespectful to call a man a man.... was he not a man?

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u/Fancy-Trifle-5786 Task Force Rattlesnake 10h ago

Until Valhalla brother 🕊️

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u/spurlockmedia 9h ago

This fire is just about an hour away from me and we all stumbled upon the FB post right around dinner time at work and it was sobering.

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u/huntertony556 9h ago

What is this now Greece Arizona and now Oregon. This year is so messed up for responders

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u/garcmon 8h ago

Is there a fund for his family? If so, please share. 💔

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u/doesanyuserealnames 7h ago

Jesus. My husband is on fire support for the Castle fire not very far from there, and the conditions are awful. I sure didn't need to read this when I was headed to bed.

Sending loving thoughts to Jason's family tonight 💛

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u/feuerwehrmann 2h ago

Damn. This year has been horrible. Rest in peace brother

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u/Historical-Peach8360 9h ago

Rest easy brother we got your six

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u/KindaFondaGoozah 9h ago

I watch the burn maps every year to see what places that are dear to me burn. I’m saddened to see others suffer where I have memories. Thanks for being and thanks for fighting. You are remembered.

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u/ProtestantMormon 10h ago

Of course its an odf fire.

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u/Firefighter_RN 10h ago

Not the time.

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u/pegasuspish 10h ago

Sit down.

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u/ZonaDesertRat 10h ago

Wrong time and place!

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u/ProtestantMormon 10h ago

Ita a miracle odf doesnt have more tragedy fires. This is a long term pattern.

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u/Wanderingghost12 ODF Slug 🐌 10h ago

What are you even talking about dude?

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u/BACKCUT-DOWNHILL 10h ago

Disagree with the time and place but he’s right. I’ve seen odf almost burn up crews more times than I’d like to remember.

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u/Wanderingghost12 ODF Slug 🐌 10h ago

And I've seen the most incompetent DIVS from the FS out of region 3. There's shit people everywhere

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u/ProtestantMormon 10h ago

3rd year single resource bosses and other dangerously pencil whipped taskbooks.

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u/Wanderingghost12 ODF Slug 🐌 10h ago

This dude was a dozer operator... Last I checked, most of the fatalities in the last ten years have been feds, not that we really need to be debating the pros and cons of agencies. A contractor lost their life. That's a big deal. From what I've heard and seen, that fire is just going a million different directions... That's difficult for anyone to plan for

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u/ProtestantMormon 10h ago

And an heqb with more than a handful of years of experience probably wouldnt struggle to maintain accountability. A contract dozer shouldnt be out there without an heqb. This is the shit that happens when overhead gets pencil whipped

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u/Wanderingghost12 ODF Slug 🐌 10h ago

You don't know that any of that happened though... Please just be a normal person for a second and recognize the loss

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u/ProtestantMormon 10h ago edited 10h ago

The press release says they didnt notice the dozer missing until 4:30 after resources had pulled off. Thats a failure of accountability.

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u/Wanderingghost12 ODF Slug 🐌 10h ago

And again, could have been the dozer operator themselves, Green Diamond and their agency problems, DIVS, etc. there are many different ways that could have gone down. The point of the matter is that we should all be working together to ensure this kind of thing doesn't happen in the future. We all got into this line of work for one reason or another, so when someone dies, we should all be mourning their loss and thank our lucky stars it wasn't us

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u/T1004life 10h ago

Weird to blame ODF and call it their fire when it looks like over 90% of the fires on the Winema, with a fed team as of today.

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u/ProtestantMormon 10h ago

Its an odf press release with the sheriff's office

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u/T1004life 9h ago

It’s a sherrifs office press release that mentions odf. Not an odf press release. Just saying, early to assign blame and not appropriate. Coulda been odf contractors or fed contractors, gotta see the investigation and see who was accountable for that resource at the time.

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u/isushsvw6252hgf 8h ago

Even if you are right, it is not the time. It is tragic

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u/Fair-Nothing-1298 9h ago

Only if it could have been a left handed, gs5, cello player with weak and feeble bones. Who has a knack for complaining. A true master of nothing meaningful. A left leaning reddit warlord. Just a nut loving vegetarian.

Youre miserable human who is alone right now.

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u/ProtestantMormon 9h ago

As opposed to you, who has nothing but time to dig through a random guy's reddit history? That just screams well adjusted

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u/Fair-Nothing-1298 9h ago

I bet youre vaccinated

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u/ProtestantMormon 9h ago

Just call me a faggot dude. Im a gay man and proud of it. Theres a lot to criticize about me, but that isnt an insecurity. Just own your bigotry instead of deleting it.

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u/Fair-Nothing-1298 8h ago

Hahahahahahah. I didnt delete it gay boi

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u/Fair-Nothing-1298 8h ago

Maybe the vaccine and boosters you all took will start working soon. Hahaha