FIRE

[MachineHead]

So here I was with my gf shooting at HSC by the 7 yard range and something happened at the 100yd range where this fire broke out. Don't know the cause, but it started off looking like the tire streaks in "Back to the Future"

 

[bfm]

How crowded was the range?

Any bets on a warning not to use steel cored ammo?

 

[MachineHead]

The range was pretty empty, maybe 5 of us at from the 7 to the 50yd line. Then there were some people down at the 100yd line from what I remember.

I'm hoping they weren't using tracer ammo or anything. There's a really good wind out here and tons of dry brush.

 

[Drix]

My phone has been giving me weather warnings about fire danger off the hook for days now, this isn't too too surprising.

 

[MachineHead]

7 NEWS chopper is flying above.

 

[bfm]

7 NEWS chopper has arrived.

So I am guess the Fire dept and the management know?

 

[DrBurnsides]

Hide the gunz..

 

[bfm]

Seriously though, anyone called Dan, Debra or Betsy yet?

 

[briz]

FPS Russia must be a memba

 

[MachineHead]

 

[MachineHead]

Hide the gunz..

The cops arrived and announce a cease fire. Everyone was already packing up as the FD arrived. There's no way anyone's shooting while the FD is on the hill.

I'm glad I had these Tasco mini binoculars in my range bag. I was gonna use them to see my targets from afar, but they came in handy today.

 

[DrBurnsides]

In to donate to HSC for a pump and a few hundred feet of hose.

 

[MachineHead]

In to donate to HSC for a pump and a few hundred feet of hose.

I'm voting for this when it comes up in a future meeting.

 

[DrBurnsides]

It wouldn't take much.. It'd take a 2-3 man crew to pull a hose to the top of the hill. And someone to turn it on.. You're not going to put out a forest fire, but you can slow it down and prevent it from spreading until the Pros get there.

Edit, some shovels and picks work well too to make a break.

 

[bfm]

Edit, some shovels and picks work well too to make a break.

Too slow, blow one with tannerite.

 

[JClark]

Too slow, blow one with tannerite.

or just let it burn out once, then there is nothing left to burn in the future. use all the tracer ammo you want!

 

[bfm]

or just let it burn out once, then there is nothing left to burn in the future. use all the tracer ammo you want!

Assuming erosion doesn't wash hill away after fire.

 

[Smash05]

So here I was with my gf shooting at HSC by the 7 yard range and something happened at the 100yd range where this fire broke out. Don't know the cause, but it started off looking like the tire streaks in "Back to the Future"

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That was fun wasn't it. According to the guys at the 100, only ball ammo, no tracer. I'll upload my pics.

 

[Smash05]

So I am guess the Fire dept and the management know?

Yes, board members were onsite

 

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[MachineHead]

That was fun wasn't it. According to the guys at the 100, only ball ammo, no tracer. I'll upload my pics.

I couldn't believe it at first. The FD made good time. They arrived pretty quickly.

 

[Smokewagon]

I couldn't believe it at first. The FD made good time. They arrived pretty quickly.

Some of them are members.

 

[ephemeratta]

http://www.weather.gov/box/

AREA FIRE WEATHER OFFICIALS ARE ADVISING OF ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER
POTENTIAL TUESDAY ACROSS EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND MUCH OF RHODE
ISLAND. THIS IS MAINLY DUE TO FINE FUELS WHICH ARE PARTICULARLY
DRY GIVEN OUR RECENT STRETCH OF DRY WEATHER. GUSTY WINDS MAY
DEVELOP LATE IN THE AFTERNOON...FURTHER ADDING TO THE RISK. PEOPLE
ARE URGED TO AVOID OPEN BURNING..IF AT ALL POSSIBLE. STAYED AWARE
OF LATER FORECASTS...WHICH MAY INCLUDE ADDITIONAL FIRE WEATHER
HEADLINES.

Same special weather warning from yesterday and tomorrow. Stuff is dry y'all.

 

[BenDover]

any word on how it started?

 

[nickortizzle1035]

any word on how it started?

obama

 

[jron]

a whole new level of global warming.

was it put out?

 

[FrugalFannie]

Seriously though, anyone called Dan, Debra or Betsy yet?

Don't call Debra. I'm in Texas!

 

[northny]

So the guys on the 100 were feeling the bern on the berm?

 

[CatSnoutSoup]

any word on how it started?

Friction caused by an off course "elite" marathon runner moving through the brush at high speed.