Wildfire in Carroll county
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on the south side of 82 along Hwy 17, so southern part of the county
Unless you live there a$$hole !
My Olive Baptist Church in that area along with several houses.
Already an area hit by a tornado a few years ago that destroyed a very beautiful and old Methodist Church along with a very old schoolhouse.
Already an area hit by a tornado a few years ago that destroyed a very beautiful and old Methodist Church along with a very old schoolhouse.
South MS/LA is under a Red Flag Warning for wildfires. Saturday will be breezy and 20-25% humidity. Nice weather but also dangerous for wildfires.
Most of the state under the red flag warning, but with the winds and seeing dust bowl type situations in northwest corner of the state today. Nobody needs to light a cigarette and throw it or the match down anywhere in this state right now.
I’m looking at my onx hunting app that picks up hot spots based on satellite…. And it looks about 7-8 miles south of 82. Just east of highway 17 and near county road 145.
I heard from them, not close to their home. Thanks for the reply.
I do own property there and grew up there. Fortunately, not many homes or lives are threatened, that's a good thing. It's better to threaten a less populated area than a populated area.
Maybe some of you foresters can chime in. It seems like wildfires in the Pacific Northwest and Canada were due to lack of harvesting lumber, biomass buildup due to conifer needles and dead trees, lack of understory. Do we just have too much moisture normally down here to not have wildfires often? I see control burns on the Natchez Trace that keep the leaf litter down and the trees survive and new understory promotes wildlife. I often think about box turtles in a fire, but maybe that's just me.
It’s because we are in an over winter drought that has only gotten worse and we haven’t had significant rains in the last two months. That’s pretty unusual for Mississippi because the February to April stretch is usually very wet.
Fire ecology in the mountain west is completely different. You would need 5,000,000 volunteers to train up on prescribed burning to even begin to make a dent based on how short the windows are to actually safely burn each year. Harvesting timber is also completely different. It's ridiculous harder
The reality is wildfires are good for the forest. They have happened for millions of years and are part of the natural cycle. We try to prevent them now but it's throwing a hotdog at a grizzly bear in the West. There's absolutely nothing practical we can do other than listen to smoky and prevent all the fires started by humans to curb fires in the West.
Weather is 1000x more important than prescribed burns or increased lumber harvesting for fires. See my thread on this year's snowpack.
It is abnormally dry right now. We haven’t fully greened up outside yet. Low humidity, high winds. All three are what’s happening right now.
Also as compared to out west, we have many many more roads and it makes it easier to fight the fires here versus out there. We can usually get them put out fairly quickly here.
Yes, west of Y-known-er. Center of Carroll County south of 82.
Just verifying what I was seeing, His camera setup shows about 239 degrees, and he said about 15 miles,
So.
The camera is located a little south of Winona, too. It's not in city center.