2013 Knee-deep BS thread!
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From: Sheridan / Gilchrist
Made it back from the farm. Grabbing the camera and taking off again. A neighbors place to the South of the farm is burning. Right now a very very large hay pile is fully involved but the wind is pushing flames toward one of his big pole barns just a few feet from the hay pile. Apparently they are going to set up a wild water pump and feed out of Salt Creek as there is no other water sources of consequence close by.
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From: Central Oregon
Diane and I where headed out of Redmond, when we hit a ladder in the road with my Mustang. Did not hurt my car, but the truck next to me and I went all over the road together. But before we could get stopped and back to the ladder, another 80's Mustang GT hit the ladder and served and hit the guard rail and the turned left across the road and head on into a PT Cruiser. Made a mess out of both cars and 3 people went to the hospital, not to bad of injuries.
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From: Paradise Found!
Morning Jim! That was one hell of a fire! Hope everybody is OK...
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From: Central Oregon
The Pt cruiser had no air bags, car must of been a re-builder.
Morning Jim
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From: Paradise Found!
One of the worst wrecks I've had was hauling a load of hay with the bosses semi over Cabbage Hill in the middle of the night. came around a corner and ran over two huge bundles of "T" posts in the middle of the road. Wiped out both fuel tanks and had posts come right up through the floor of the cab! About pissed my pants!
They never did find the truck that lost the T posts........
They never did find the truck that lost the T posts........
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From: Sheridan / Gilchrist
You could feel the heat off of it from quite some distance away.
The pickup in the pic has the pipe trailer hooked to it. Pipe already laid and wild water out of the creek flowing. You can see the effect on the hay pile just over the top and to the right of the two squeeze piles and the power pole where the fire is obviously cooler.
The fire department got there and immediately went into a "save the building" mode putting 100% of the effort and water on the back side of the building trying to keep it cool. He and his farm hands took one of those huge John Deere's and a very large PTO water pump down to the creek and then laid irrigation line up to the hay pile. Connected up one of those 5 acre sprinkler nozzles and let her rip on the north end. That's actually the water stream you can see in the pictures and not from an FD hose.
The pickup in the pic has the pipe trailer hooked to it. Pipe already laid and wild water out of the creek flowing. You can see the effect on the hay pile just over the top and to the right of the two squeeze piles and the power pole where the fire is obviously cooler.
The fire department got there and immediately went into a "save the building" mode putting 100% of the effort and water on the back side of the building trying to keep it cool. He and his farm hands took one of those huge John Deere's and a very large PTO water pump down to the creek and then laid irrigation line up to the hay pile. Connected up one of those 5 acre sprinkler nozzles and let her rip on the north end. That's actually the water stream you can see in the pictures and not from an FD hose.
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From: Sheridan / Gilchrist
Glad you two came out of it with nothing more than a laundry bill!
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After we left the wreak, about 5 miles down the road, a car had a roof top carrier come over and spill camping gear all over the road in front of us. So we were out in hwy 97 picking up stuff.
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From: Sheridan / Gilchrist
This fire had units from probably at least 15 different agencies. Polk Co., SW Polk, SW Polk - Rickreall, Sheridan, Amity, McMinnville, Carlton, Yamhill, Dallas, Willamina and others. Sheridan had a Carlton truck and another one from another agency I didn't catch the name of, standing by at the Sheridan FD in town to cover any other calls that might come in.