![]() ![]() If you see a strike come down, you do your best to find a location of that and then call it in and then they’ll send a crew out the next day to look for a fire start. They’ll keep you on duty sometimes until 10 o’clock at night because you’re up looking for down strikes. Those roll in usually late in the afternoon. Normally thunderstorms don’t roll in until around August, but this year early fire season, June, end of June, we started having a lot of lightning activity. This year thunderstorms came early, in June. One of the fires he experienced burned close to a million acres, which is bigger than the state of Rhode Island. We’re talking fire, we’re talking smoke, we’re talking lightning. We shift gears from talking about the lookout itself to the elements. In this episode, we conclude our conversation with Tim Cash. This is Robert and welcome to The Outfall, where we share the backstories of our water world. She had suffered permanent hearing damage from close lightning. There were days when it was burning 35,000 to 40,000 acres a day. It was the largest fire from a single start in California history. Over the course of a couple of weeks, it burned over 100,000 acres. TranscriptĪnd that fire took off that day. ![]() As always, we love to hear your comments. Thanks again for listening to The Outfall. ![]() Most of them are out west but there are a couple on the east coast. A good read! Tim also mentioned that the government rents out certain lookout towers. ![]() One book Tim mentioned he read was by Phillip Connors titled Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout. ![]()
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