I'm doing this a bit ahead of time here

Sandtrap · July 31, 2015, 01:38:10 AM

It's now friday today, bright and early. My week off is almost up. I'll be packing my shit up and leaving on Sunday, and resuming my volunteer fire aid shift up north for another three weeks as of Monday.

As it stands the now current total number of active fires in my province is down to 70, with the big fire over 100,000 hectares in size still burning.

Blog post and yada yada, all that stuff, I probably won't stick around for the remainder of the last few days here. So, without further adieu, I say goodbye in advance again for a little bit.

I'll see you folks around. Take care.

Edited bit here because I'd like to say some stuff before I head out.

Spoiler

I'd like to thank you guys, all of you, for over time providing such a decent place to hang around for me. Ups and downs, I know that, but overall the time here so far has been well enough off. And I'd like to apologize for derp moments of mine since I started rolling out into meds and stuff. I do my best to keep stuff under wraps.

Maybe I haven't done the best of doing that either, but I do try. This job that I'm undertaking now, well, it's a long haul to be sure. Or at least it feels like it. 21 days. Maybe it doesn't quite mean so much to you folks, but it means something to me. I'm just not the best at being a proper functioning person when it comes to social non-loner type stuff.

You folks are really the only people I have here, and have been the only ones over the course of the last year or so. Call it what you will, but I'll miss the company of this place while I'm gone. It's been a tough summer this year. Ups and downs and all that. I know it's not exactly a party for a fair few of folks here either.

But still, it leaves me all a little bit lost right now. So. I'll miss you guys. You all take care now. I'll see ya around.

Jocephalopod · July 31, 2015, 01:41:48 AM

Ur not getting paid for this spooky shit?

Sandtrap · July 31, 2015, 01:44:51 AM

Quote from: Jocephalopod on July 31, 2015, 01:41:48 AM

Ur not getting paid for this spooky shit?

I'm a volunteer of my own free will. So no, I'm on no payroll. I'm not an actual firefighter. Just an aid. Hook up machinery and hoses, drive shit, dig shit like trenches on advancing fires, and travel behind advancing firefighter lines to put out small residual burns.

big sponge · July 31, 2015, 01:46:58 AM

Do they at least give you food?

Sandtrap · July 31, 2015, 01:49:05 AM

Quote from: LC on July 31, 2015, 01:46:58 AM

Do they at least give you food?

Of course they do. They set up mobile camps. The red cross is up there supplying food and bunks/tents and medical aid and all that shit. You get dropped off back at camp at the end of the day by a chopper and get picked up in the morning to fly farther out because there's no roads that far north.

Jocephalopod · July 31, 2015, 01:50:44 AM

Quote from: Sandtrap on July 31, 2015, 01:49:05 AM

Quote from: LC on July 31, 2015, 01:46:58 AM
Do they at least give you food?

Of course they do. They set up mobile camps. The red cross is up there supplying food and bunks/tents and medical aid and all that shit. You get dropped off back at camp at the end of the day by a chopper and get picked up in the morning to fly farther out because there's no roads that far north.

Oh shit, that actually sounds kinda fun

You meat any cool pebbles?

CIS · July 31, 2015, 01:52:16 AM

What made you want to volunteer for that?

Sandtrap · July 31, 2015, 01:52:31 AM

Quote from: Jocephalopod on July 31, 2015, 01:50:44 AM

Quote from: Sandtrap on July 31, 2015, 01:49:05 AM
Quote from: LC on July 31, 2015, 01:46:58 AM
Do they at least give you food?

Of course they do. They set up mobile camps. The red cross is up there supplying food and bunks/tents and medical aid and all that shit. You get dropped off back at camp at the end of the day by a chopper and get picked up in the morning to fly farther out because there's no roads that far north.

Oh shit, that actually sounds kinda fun

You meat any cool pebbles?

Not really, no. It's hard to socialize when you literally wake up, eat as fast as you can, gear up, get in the chopper, and head out. You come back at the end of the day, eat, remove gear, sleep, rinse and repeat.

big sponge · July 31, 2015, 01:53:25 AM

Is your helichopper pilot hot?

Jocephalopod · July 31, 2015, 01:54:06 AM

Quote from: Sandtrap on July 31, 2015, 01:52:31 AM

Quote from: Jocephalopod on July 31, 2015, 01:50:44 AM
Quote from: Sandtrap on July 31, 2015, 01:49:05 AM
Quote from: LC on July 31, 2015, 01:46:58 AM
Do they at least give you food?

Of course they do. They set up mobile camps. The red cross is up there supplying food and bunks/tents and medical aid and all that shit. You get dropped off back at camp at the end of the day by a chopper and get picked up in the morning to fly farther out because there's no roads that far north.

Oh shit, that actually sounds kinda fun

You meat any cool pebbles?

Not really, no. It's hard to socialize when you literally wake up, eat as fast as you can, gear up, get in the chopper, and head out. You come back at the end of the day, eat, remove gear, sleep, rinse and repeat.

That sucks

Sandtrap · July 31, 2015, 01:55:23 AM

Quote from: CIS Scum on July 31, 2015, 01:52:16 AM

What made you want to volunteer for that?

Dunno. My province was on fire. I was thinking about it a while back. When the fires were at their height they were only three hours away and my town got put up on evacuation warning.

I was sitting around thinking. "Hey, let's be useful and give people a hand up there."

The more I listened to reports the more I wanted to help. This was something within my power and range to do so. So I did.

Sandtrap · July 31, 2015, 01:56:14 AM

Quote from: LC on July 31, 2015, 01:53:25 AM

Is your helichopper pilot hot?

He's a fat old guy who's loud as fuck because he can yell over the sound of chopper blades.

Epsira · July 31, 2015, 01:56:28 AM

Quote from: LC on July 31, 2015, 01:53:25 AM

Is your helichopper pilot hot?

Classic LC.

big sponge · July 31, 2015, 01:56:46 AM

Quote from: Sandtrap on July 31, 2015, 01:56:14 AM

Quote from: LC on July 31, 2015, 01:53:25 AM
Is your helichopper pilot hot?

He's a fat old guy who's loud as fuck because he can yell over the sound of chopper blades.

You should thank him for his service.

Sandtrap · July 31, 2015, 01:59:32 AM

Quote from: LC on July 31, 2015, 01:56:46 AM

Quote from: Sandtrap on July 31, 2015, 01:56:14 AM
Quote from: LC on July 31, 2015, 01:53:25 AM
Is your helichopper pilot hot?

He's a fat old guy who's loud as fuck because he can yell over the sound of chopper blades.

You should thank him for his service.

Implying that I already haven't. I get along well with older people. He's probably the only person around who I've had a chance to talk to really.

big sponge · July 31, 2015, 02:00:55 AM

Quote from: Epsira on July 31, 2015, 01:56:28 AM

Quote from: LC on July 31, 2015, 01:53:25 AM
Is your helichopper pilot hot?
Classic LC.

The offer still stands. I'll tell you Tru's fetishis in ecchange for your chest

big sponge · July 31, 2015, 02:02:15 AM

Quote from: Sandtrap on July 31, 2015, 01:59:32 AM

Quote from: LC on July 31, 2015, 01:56:46 AM
Quote from: Sandtrap on July 31, 2015, 01:56:14 AM
Quote from: LC on July 31, 2015, 01:53:25 AM
Is your helichopper pilot hot?

He's a fat old guy who's loud as fuck because he can yell over the sound of chopper blades.

You should thank him for his service.

Implying that I already haven't. I get along well with older people. He's probably the only person around who I've had a chance to talk to really.

ccol

Sandtrap · July 31, 2015, 02:05:08 AM

Quote from: Jocephalopod on July 31, 2015, 01:54:06 AM

Quote from: Sandtrap on July 31, 2015, 01:52:31 AM
Quote from: Jocephalopod on July 31, 2015, 01:50:44 AM
Quote from: Sandtrap on July 31, 2015, 01:49:05 AM
Quote from: LC on July 31, 2015, 01:46:58 AM
Do they at least give you food?

Of course they do. They set up mobile camps. The red cross is up there supplying food and bunks/tents and medical aid and all that shit. You get dropped off back at camp at the end of the day by a chopper and get picked up in the morning to fly farther out because there's no roads that far north.

Oh shit, that actually sounds kinda fun

You meat any cool pebbles?

Not really, no. It's hard to socialize when you literally wake up, eat as fast as you can, gear up, get in the chopper, and head out. You come back at the end of the day, eat, remove gear, sleep, rinse and repeat.

That sucks

Not really. I'm not a social kind of person and I'm part wise used to that kind of lifestyle anyway.

Zonda · July 31, 2015, 02:05:41 AM

Quote from: LC on July 31, 2015, 02:00:55 AM

Quote from: Epsira on July 31, 2015, 01:56:28 AM
Quote from: LC on July 31, 2015, 01:53:25 AM
Is your helichopper pilot hot?
Classic LC.

The offer still stands. I'll tell you Tru's fetishis in ecchange for your chest

um

OT: good luck helping fight the fires :^) early last year, my entire state had a fire danger warning that was the highest possible rating, 80 km/h winds, and temperatures over 40 degrees C. Almost 40 fires started that day, and nearly all of them were attributed to people deliberately lighting them.

aREALgod · July 31, 2015, 02:11:08 AM

Seen any dead people yet?

Sandtrap · July 31, 2015, 02:13:20 AM

Quote from: SHAWN BEEN on July 31, 2015, 02:11:08 AM

Seen any dead people yet?

No, actually. It's been the worst environmental issue in our province since it's been founded. But there's been 0 casualties.

Sandtrap · July 31, 2015, 04:07:11 AM

Well gentlemen, that's that I guess. I'm going to take whatever free time I have left and enjoy my quiet in peace before I head out. I'll see you all in about 21 days if my math is right.

Don't meme the place too hard while I'm gone.

BaconShelf · July 31, 2015, 04:52:19 AM

Wait...

Don't you pretty much live in the Land of Always Winter?

How does a big fire start in that kind of climate.

DAS B00T x2 · July 31, 2015, 05:04:12 AM

Quote from: BaconShelf on July 31, 2015, 04:52:19 AM

Wait...

Don't you pretty much live in the Land of Always Winter?

How does a big fire start in that kind of climate.

because trees like to catch fire in a dry summer.

BaconShelf · July 31, 2015, 05:09:55 AM

Quote from: DAS THROWBACK on July 31, 2015, 05:04:12 AM

Quote from: BaconShelf on July 31, 2015, 04:52:19 AM
Wait...

Don't you pretty much live in the Land of Always Winter?

How does a big fire start in that kind of climate.
because trees like to catch fire in a dry summer.

You can have dry summers that far north? I always presumed that where he lives it was pretty much a permanent snow cover.

I'd expect big fires to be something like you see in the south US or Australia or something.

A Cheese Potato · July 31, 2015, 05:22:20 AM

Quote from: BaconShelf on July 31, 2015, 05:09:55 AM

Quote from: DAS THROWBACK on July 31, 2015, 05:04:12 AM
Quote from: BaconShelf on July 31, 2015, 04:52:19 AM
Wait...

Don't you pretty much live in the Land of Always Winter?

How does a big fire start in that kind of climate.
because trees like to catch fire in a dry summer.

You can have dry summers that far north? I always presumed that where he lives it was pretty much a permanent snow cover.

I'd expect big fires to be something like you see in the south US or Australia or something.

we have poisonous fires thank you very much

DAS B00T x2 · July 31, 2015, 05:37:41 AM

Quote from: BaconShelf on July 31, 2015, 05:09:55 AM

Quote from: DAS THROWBACK on July 31, 2015, 05:04:12 AM
Quote from: BaconShelf on July 31, 2015, 04:52:19 AM
Wait...

Don't you pretty much live in the Land of Always Winter?

How does a big fire start in that kind of climate.
because trees like to catch fire in a dry summer.

You can have dry summers that far north? I always presumed that where he lives it was pretty much a permanent snow cover.

I'd expect big fires to be something like you see in the south US or Australia or something.

The only places I'm aware of that are year round snow covered or have permafrost are well above the arctic circle... or Antarctica.

velox · July 31, 2015, 05:40:47 AM

Good luck.