"CALFIRE" TV Series premieres tonight Jan 3rd

[Station51]

"CALFIRE" TV Series premieres tonight on Discovery Channel at 7:22 p.m. (That's what it says lol) Pacific time. First episode is to cover Cherry Valley Fire. Looks interesting.

 

[tkenny53]

Its been on Netflix for a while, in fact, they have 2 series on Cal Fire

 

[Kingscup]

Its been on Netflix for a while, in fact, they have 2 series on Cal Fire

This is a completely new series. The first episode focused on the Apple fire in Riverside and San Bernardino counties from July/August of last year.

 

[tkenny53]

Correct, but I saw it when it came out in Nov 2020.
The other series, showed the Blue Cut fire

 

[Alain]

This is the first time I have seen this program. It was worth the time to sit in and listen.

Both my wife and I have been evac'd twice...once in '03 [Paradise} and again in '07 [Poomacha]. Both fires started within 1/2 mile of our home. The last thing I did before I locked the place up [in '03] was to look out the garage window; I saw a grove of 60' tall eucs fully involved.

You must appreciate the fact that I was a "city boy" for the first 51 years of my life! The last 20 have been lived in "the outback" of San Diego County. I needed to learn more, a lot more, about the WUI I lived in and the "natural" propensity of wildfire to explode in my area.

So, when a friend suggested that we become CERT team members, we did, in 2009. We learned so much in the next 2 years that we decided to share what we learned with our fellow residents. We became FEMA certified instructors. We taught the disaster preparedness module for 8 years.

Earlier in the recently passed decade, there were so many "fire expo's/symposiums/workshops" [right after the '07 fire] that you had to chose which ones to attend. The last one for me was the CERT symposium in Los Angeles, Labor Day weekend, 2016. Firefighters from throughout the western U.S.A. states were present with some remarkable equipment.

Watching the above program, I was struct with how many of the folks interviewed don't have a nodding acquaintance with how to prepare for being evac'd. Prior to 2010, we didn't either. This is the main reason we became CERT members.

These programs are good, but they don't go far enough. Folks living in the San Diego WUI have must realize that what happened in '03 and '07 will happen again.

Whether you become a survivor or just a statistic when the next wildfire breaks out depends upon how concerned you felt in your own home.

Look at this Cal-Fire fire history map to see where your community might stand...it's never too late to prepare. The green color denotes S.D. County fire history for just the past 24 years. The red and yellow colors represent the fire history from 1910 thru 1996...eighty-six years.

 

[Alain]

This is the first time I have seen this program. It was worth the time to sit in and listen.

Both my wife and I have been evac'd twice...once in '03 [Paradise} and again in '07 [Poomacha]. Both fires started within 1/2 mile of our home. The last thing I did before I locked the place up [in '03] was to look out the garage window; I saw a grove of 60' tall eucs fully involved.

You must appreciate the fact that I was a "city boy" for the first 51 years of my life! The last 20 have been lived in "the outback" of San Diego County. I needed to learn more, a lot more, about the WUI I lived in and the "natural" propensity of wildfire to explode in my area.

So, when a friend suggested that we become CERT team members, we did, in 2009. We learned so much in the next 2 years that we decided to share what we learned with our fellow residents. We became FEMA certified instructors. We taught the disaster preparedness module for 8 years.

Earlier in the recently passed decade, there were so many "fire expo's/symposiums/workshops" [right after the '07 fire] that you had to chose which ones to attend. The last one for me was the CERT symposium in Los Angeles, Labor Day weekend, 2016. Firefighters from throughout the western U.S.A. states were present with some remarkable equipment.

Watching the above program, I was struct with how many of the folks interviewed don't have a nodding acquaintance with how to prepare for being evac'd. Prior to 2010, we didn't either. This is the main reason we became CERT members.

These t.v. programs are good, but they don't go far enough. Folks living in the San Diego WUI have must realize that what happened in '03 and '07 will happen again.

Whether you become a survivor or just a statistic when the next wildfire breaks out depends upon how concerned you felt in your own home.

Look at this Cal-Fire fire history map to see where your community might stand...it's never too late to prepare. The green color denotes S.D. County fire history for just the past 24 years. The red and yellow colors represent the fire history from 1910 thru 1996...eighty-six years.

 

[N6ML]

Correct, but I saw it when it came out in Nov 2020.

Are you sure? They released some sort version (8-9 minute episodes) August thru November 2020, but the new episodes that premiered on Jan 3rd are full length (41 mins).

Cal Fire | Watch Full Episodes & More! - Discovery

Cal Fire Official Site. Watch Full Episodes, Get Behind the Scenes, Meet the Cast, and much more. Stream Cal Fire FREE with Your TV Subscription!

go.discovery.com

 

[breed909]

Hello, me and the wife couldn't find them ether so we did a search and found that it was a mini series and the only thing we could find is what N6ML was saying there real short clips. Versus the one that where on spectrum cable that where 60mins. Hopefully they make more it was great show.

 

[biocal]

Breed 909 and others. You can watch the full 41 minute episodes on Discovery Go or Discovery +. Clcik on full episodes:

Cal Fire | Watch Full Episodes & More! - Discovery

Cal Fire Official Site. Watch Full Episodes, Get Behind the Scenes, Meet the Cast, and much more. Stream Cal Fire FREE with Your TV Subscription!

go.discovery.com

 

[Kingscup]

I have heard that due to current events, the series has been pushed back to sometime in the spring with a full run to be aired at that time. No further episodes will air until that time.