Photo Courtesy of ktvn.com
The huge plume of dark gray smoke coming from the SE corner of the Lake is not a prescribed burn. You may have noticed the thick smoke if you were driving around the lake yesterday. A prescribed burn was going on near the Rubicon area, but the Ray May Fire, burning seven miles south of Gardnerville, was started by two 15 year old boys and is a full-on wildfire. The two teenagers built a fort in the woods, started a campfire, and did not extinguished it before winds picked up and spread the blaze.
The total area of the fire is now at about 2700 acres and is at least 50% contained. Three structures have burnt down due to the teenagers negligence, and both boys have been charged with third degree arson. Moreover, two firefighters were injured battling the blaze, and are being treated for non life threatening injuries. There is no word on when the fire will be fully contained, and local homeowners in the area are under voluntary evacuation.
OMG, Kids, Put Out Your F’ing Fires!!!! Do You Want Tahoe to burn down? Neither do we!!!!
log tahoe.. less to burn.
Well Unofficial, it looks like you OFFICIALLY have some trollers. Knober, as burnt out as you might be, most of Tahoe was logged during the Comstock, which is why the surrounding forests are in as bad of shape as they are. When you clear cut large tracks of forest, you create lasting change for that ecosystem. When the trees all grow back at once, competing for resources on a similar level, there’s no diversity, thus the forest is susceptible to catastrophic events. Fire has always been the natural medium that regulates such things. By thinning our current forests with some prescribed fires to help artificially bring back that natural balance, that’s the best way to deal with the lasting impacts of the Comstock. Put Bluntly, Tahoe forests are are as big of a fire hazard as anywhere because of the poor forest practices done, like logging too much of certain areas in the past because it creates vulnerability, like what happened in Angora and what’s happening near Gardnerville. And if you can’t follow my simple lesson, backed by years of forestry work, look it up on line, Knob. Even slack-jawed yokles like you and Cletus can understand logging a renewable resource is a good thing, when it’s done in the right way, if you take the time to not be such a dip shit.
he was making a joke. its a bumper sticker.
The pratice of compleat fire suppression is what brought our forests to the state they are in. If we had allowed fires to burn as our forests recovered from the clear cutting we would not have such a danger. Now we must use mechanical methods mixed with preceibed burns to catch up. Dip shit.
This was not an accident. These kids have prior issues, they are trouble makers in the community…rumor has it they started many fires at the same time in order to make it spread like it did….
I could be wrong, but I THINK knob was kidding….in that case, YOU, troller, sound like the dip shit.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
hook line and sinker my friend- great work knob
Yep Unofficial, it looks like we OFFICIALLY have some trollers.