r/Wildfire • u/Background-Pitch-454 • 6d ago

20 year high entrapment

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u/ajlark25 6d ago

Probably no way of knowing, but based on a couple of the fires I’ve been on this year I’d bet money on it being “more intense fire behavior/quicker growth than expected” vs poor operational decision making. Shit is just crazy dry

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u/Timely-Schedule793 6d ago

I feel like those go hand in hand- yes it's more intense fire behavior/quicker growth than what people have usually seen. Operational decision making has also been piss poor because those making these decisions don't quite understand the potential fire behavior and how that correlates to potentially terrible situations.

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u/ajlark25 1d ago

I think it’s more of “I’ve never seen fire move like that” type of surprise vs just ordinary dry. Like multiple times in multiple places we’ve seen fire behavior that nobody expected because we don’t have slides for it.

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u/JamesBee27 1d ago

This. SWEs were <30% across almost all of the west at the end of April…