How Fighting Brush Fires Have Changed

A lot of the weather news lately it seems is about the Super El Nino weather pattern and what it will bring in the coming months.

But these hot days we have had and are still having and the fires we already have had break out over the last couple of months are all signs of what is always possible in late summer and fall.

While fire season is year-round, most of the worst fires over the years have happened in the early to mid-fall.

Anyone who was here in 2003 and 2007 remember those fires.

Hundreds of thousands of acres burned, several thousand homes lost as well as some lives and there were widespread evacuations.

The good news is the good news about today’s firefighting tools and techniques that weren’t around back then.

As we have been reporting this morning, the air tankers and other airborne firefighting aircraft have made a huge difference in keeping small or medium-size brush fires from getting huge.

And experience over many years has taught us all to be better prepared for brush fires and know what to do if it happens near you.

So, if you live in one of those fire prone areas, make sure you’re ready and it will be a much happier summer and fall.

(Photo reporting partner 10News)