Where There's no Smoke ,There's no Fire

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:01]So, just to add context to the following video, I thought I was going to help fight forest fires and put them out, but all I was doing was just filling in some ruts and rough spots so they could get their pickup trucks and equipment in.

[00:00:18]So, not very exciting. There's no fire.

[00:00:21]There's no action, but just I was videoing it. So, I'll put them together here for you. I can have a look see.

[00:00:32]So, it is just about the middle of May and there's a forest fire going up here on the west Harrison and I'm going up there with this new machine to help out.

[00:01:13]traffic.

[00:01:38]There's Harrison Lake. I don't see any smoke, so I don't know what's up. Maybe it's just a fire drill. So, this is a BC Forest Service here. Cal follow him in or he's going to follow me in or something.

[00:01:59]I'm not impressed so far. It's been an hour and a half of just walking and walking and walking on logging roads went up the odd little wash out.

[00:02:09]Still don't see no smoke.

[00:02:19]Still climbing, fixing out wash outs, making access.

[00:02:26]See that little white dot down there?

[00:02:28]That's some Forest Service trucks waiting to get up.

[00:02:39]>> Harrison Leap.

[00:02:52]and no smoke.

[00:02:55]>> Maybe it's just an old guy with a campfire that's with a wet blanket in it.

[00:03:06]So, he's just going to go up ahead and see what it looks like or if anything else needs to be done. Sure hasn't been done much done so far.

[00:03:45]So Harrison Harrison Lake. So the hotel Harrison Hot Springs would be like right right under there. So that's the that's the end of the lake. The head of the lakes's like I don't know 60 km 40 mi up or something.

[00:04:04]Get a still picture or two here.

[00:04:08]There's some old growth here. At least for not big ones, but I think they're old. Look like 3 and 1/2 4 footers just there. This is normal.

[00:04:47]I don't think I'm going to be seeing any flames or action.

[00:04:51]Guess guess this was back up and hit it.

[00:04:54]>> This was just to get the road open enough for them to get up here to where the road is. Okay.

[00:05:04]There you go.

[00:05:16]Oh, got another one.

[00:05:40]And another another one.

[00:06:43]Well, it was a short job, so we're just shoveled the tracks out. We're here with the BC BC Forest Service Wildlife Service.

[00:06:53]There we got Cal. He is in charge of what was going on there. He's got a bunch of crews up there right now working. But I didn't get to see the fire, but this is as close as we'll get to hearing about it. So, how many hectares was it, K?

[00:07:06]>> Uh, four hectares. Uh, started a couple of nights ago. We got some lightning.

[00:07:11]Um, was uh 0.2 hectares the the night it kicked off. Uh but crews pulled out just around dark there. Uh we came back the next morning and it it uh yeah overnight there even with a little bit of the rain coming in. Got to four hectares. Um got in yesterday though and it yeah rained all day. Um knocked the fire right down.

[00:07:32]Um but still smoking smothering up along the edges. So, you know, if we if we don't jump on it now while we can, uh the the weather will bounce back, things dry out, and all it takes is a little bit of wind and it's back on again. Um but yeah, the it's been knocked down for the time being and yeah, pretty relaxed.

[00:07:52]>> Well, we're early in the season. It's not even midmay till tomorrow or the next day, I think. So, you you should have some job security ahead of you. We had a good hot start to the year here, man.

[00:08:02]>> Yeah. No, we we were bow dry when that lightning came in. So, that was uh that was a prime recipe. Um there was a lot of lightning. Um lot lot of new fires getting called in that night as well. Um but yeah, most of them most of them went quiet after the the rain, but it wasn't quite enough rain where um if it comes in again tonight, that that might just about do it. But, uh, I know just with the how deep that drought goes, um, we'll be keeping an eye out on, you know, where, uh, all of our sensors were picking up all the the lightning strikes and, um, keep an eye on those cuz they we call those hold over fires. So, where the lightning might pass through, um the rain follows in behind, knocks them down, keeps them quiet, and then um sometimes it can be two 3 weeks for us, at least on the the coastal side of things, it could be 3 weeks before we actually get fires start showing themselves again that we already knew were kind of out there. But unless they're smoking and flaring up, uh pretty tough to find. So, >> okay. Well, thanks for that. And someone's going to watch this video and they're going to they're going to say Australia, they're going to say New Zealand. So, we got to we got to go personal here. It's like what are we hearing?

[00:09:13]>> Scottish.

[00:09:14]>> Okay.

[00:09:14]>> Glasgow.

[00:09:15]>> Right on. Okay. Thanks, man. Later. Bye.

[00:09:18]Thank you.