Wild fires season

Forest fires

Here in the sierras we have no rain over the winter, and sadly every year we confront forest fires.

This For the last few weeks we have had one fire after another and in some cases more than one at the same time.

Despite the fact that the firefighters have hydrant water bomber planes that support them, they still do almost all of the work by hand.

I admire them because  they are voluntary fireman and they do a great job by nothing. without receiving any pay.

They have a hard and risky work dangerous job when they are moving over the rocks on the hills fighting the fires with only a piece of leather or a shovel.

Of course they have more tools like maybe a such as chainsaws, but although they do use an interesting tool that they use on lower fires which is a stick with a piece of leather to hit the fire with in order to put it out. and turn it off.

This picture is a view from my home right now. The base of the smoke is at least 20km wide

Well done Cristian!  I hope that the fires didn't come any closer to your house!