(Tonight’s smoky sunset, photographed by James Bratsanos)
The current air-quality alert is still set to expire at midnight, though smoke from the Bolt Creek Fire continues to degrade our air quality. Puget Sound Clean Air Agency‘s Sunday update says “strong onshore winds” are expected to clear some of it out on Monday, and the forecast indeed says wind could be gusting up to 25 mph by Monday night.
Relief is great!! It seems there is a let burn policy in Washington state until the rains come. We have millions of people in the region inundated by unhealthy smoke. People are staying home and which means businesses are suffering. I know the area of fire is rugged country but that is what water tanker planes are for. News is just reporting smoke yet there is no cry to add the resources needed to put out these fires. Frustrating!!!!!!
If you follow the link to the fire’s name, you can get a complete rundown of what they are doing to fight the fire.
How come the government can’t just snap their fingers and magically put out these fires? Frustrating!!!!!!!
I think you underestimate the size and magnitude of these wild fires. We can try to contain them but only an act of nature like sustained rain is going to put the fire out. There is enough fire fuel on the west side for the containment area to burn for months. Sad that an act of humans started the bolt creek fire, but only nature will put it out.
Everyone complains about the weather but no one dies anything about it
Marcus – Fire suppression leaves more fuel for future fires, thus letting it burn in many cases is the appropriate response. And fortunately the smoke levels have not gotten to severe this time, moderate per the air quality app I use!
Incorrect. It has been off and on over 150 for two days now which is unhealthy for everyone
Fire management decisions are not made on the basis of your air quality preferences. They are made based on protecting structures and infrastructure, and personnel safety plus capability of equipment.
Everyone has some good points. I would like to see prescribed burns to remove that fuel however at a time when the air flows are not stagnant. I think up to 100 is moderate, however there is a lot of red on the air quality site I have been looking at. 129 right now much worse elsewhere. What really needs to happen is more management of our forests or these episodes are only going to get worse. Just letting it burn is too easy.
Only you can stop forest fires. Bolt Creek fire info here https://gacc.nifc.gov/nwcc/information/fire_info
So which Sinclair/Murdoch/whatever property is pushing the “they don’t do anything to put out wildfires” narrative this season? Because that’s what randos claim on Twitter as well in response to weather/air quality orgs posts – it must be some kind of failure of King Inslee that this fire is still burning, or better yet a deliberate conspiracy by the libs! The fact that Inslee himself doesn’t show up in a shiny red fire engine and spray the fire out with his big hose means that Government Bad, Taxes Bad. “No one is doing anything,” they shout, without ever bothering to read an actual news article about what is, in fact, being done on the daily. But they love their first responders and those He Men True Masc Manly Men who do Real Jobs unlike us cuck libs in Seattle. I mean, you can’t make this stuff up, except that it is made up, out of whole cloth. So who’s pushing it?
Stopped reading at “King Inslee” come on. Culp got nowhere close to 40% of votes.
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