Anyone know how well the equipment survived up there? I'm not even sure how much of that is critical infrastructure anymore. It was always cool to MTB or hike up to the peak and try figuring out what each tower was used for. They've got everything across the RF spectrum up there, even (what appears to be) an old MW relay station from WWII.
Last I heard from some comm owners, minor damage to some of the buildings. Power lines and poles were damaged on the way up, so all that equipment will be on backup power for weeks. There is a LOT of critical infrastructure up there. Quite a few radio repeaters for local, county, state, and federal governments. Ham radio repeaters, GMRS, commercial networked systems, media... you name it. Many entities with radio equipment up there as well as others. Many of the microwave dishes are links for those very same radio repeaters - linking them to other sites around the county/state.
They keep it pretty low, probably don't want to eliminate all of it for erosion control purposes when the winter rainstorms come rolling through. Kind of a damned if you don't, damned if you do situation with the brush.
@@crosslink1493 I'm talking about the tall bushes that fuel the firestorm. I've been there and they do nothing for fire prevention. The fuel brings the fire right up to the base of the towers.
@@garydailey809 Tall bushes were trimmed or removed along the main divide road from the sierra peak down south. Ironically I have not seen any such action around the sierra peak which suffered the same fate few years ago.
It is a very glorious beast to transatlantic eyes and splendid scenery to view it against; moreover that voice! Excellent video and sound giving wonderful effect to us in the U.K. Magic!!
Do you guys attempt structure protection? A creeping ground fire that you should have made some attempt to handle. Even the dozer could have grounded it up. Geeze.
Somewhere, some model railroader or club has a small part of this beauty set up in a train room, and has spent hundreds of hours making it as close to the reality as possible. My husband was one and especially loved making scratch built structures for his HO set.😊
Infuriating to watch. 15 pickups parked there. And one guy trying to get the spots out with a bladder bag. One lazy guy runs right past the spot. Doesn't bother to grab a hoe or anything. These government so called firefighters are the laziest union useless people I've ever seen! Complete waste of money. No wonder it's 370 thousand acres. Then the rest show up and 10 of them stand there.
@@native82Everyone has an assignment or job. If you feel they are standing around or working. Called Firefighter discipline and stick to what assignment is given.
I think the Rav4 could have been saved! 6:14 it should have been fine just douse it with water like in 7:33 6:45 looks like fire got to it via the dry grass. Look at 5:08 , looks like defensible space around that wooden thing in the middle then look at 6:20 , the fire was able to crawl to the wooden thing. I suspect this is what happened to the house. The house look at 2:35 , a defensible space could be created. At 4:10 the fire is allowed to walk up to the house. Maybe the fire really is moving that fast, but man it seems like no effort was done to prevent.
Not knowing every detail of what happened there, it’s tough to watch a structure surrounded by resources be destroyed and not think they let it burn. I know they didn’t but it looks like it.
And it was surrounded by a lot of open dirt and gravel....not thick trees or brush. I have been in Voses many times, was just by there on a bicycle ride.
I looked it up online. Was it still filled with antiques? So unbelievable, I guess they didn’t have a water tender there yet and just had to let it burn. I’m guessing that this scenario is the same for all the other structures there. Thank you for showing us the guts, personality and reality of this horrendous monstrosity of a fire.
The 4884’s never made it to these tracks, you are watching a historic first. The Big Boys were only used in Wyoming, and a short distance into Utah. This is a glorious sight.
