Last Nights Waterton Prairie Fire

[landowner]

Originally Posted by SLH

Maybe landowner can speak to this...

Did the municipality have tankers and trucks at the ski hill "just in case" it got there, rather than where the fire was actually burning?

I don't know if tankers were at the hill or not .what I do know is there were no tankers , water trucks, etc that came to help ranchers fighting spot fire the next day despite requests to do so. I also know that there was no controlled burn that night. The crew that does that was actually trapped inside the townsite by fire that had surrounded them on two sides.

[6.5 shooter]

Originally Posted by landowner

Actually the number is 80% of the park is burnt , not burnt is crypt , vimy , and chief mt areas.

Did they not burn about 15 years ago??

[SLH]

No those areas haven't had a fire in the last 40 years that I've been accessing them, there might be a few areas near Chief Mountain that burned when the Pole Haven went up but the rest haven't had a fire in a very long time.

[SLH]

Originally Posted by landowner

I don't know if tankers were at the hill or not .what I do know is there were no tankers , water trucks, etc that came to help ranchers fighting spot fire the next day despite requests to do so. I also know that there was no controlled burn that night. The crew that does that was actually trapped inside the townsite by fire that had surrounded them on two sides.

I hate to be to critical in circumstances like this because it isn't an everyday occurrence and we all tend to get complacent but it seems that the municipality could have stepped up more than they did.

Best wishes Landowner

[landowner]

Originally Posted by 6.5 shooter

Did they not burn about 15 years ago??

I believe that was the sofa mountain fire , on the Chief Mt highway

[landowner]

Originally Posted by chuck

It's not 80% from what I can see.

I stand corrected , it's 70 % of the vegetation, according to the park.