Fire blackens 20 acres at airport

Chico pd, chp, sherrifs deputies, every uniform in the county showed up here on cohasset this morning to clean up the little mistake....good job fire guys.

Why the heck would they start a burn yesterday when we were suposed to have record winds today? DUH!!!!!

That's Chico City Fire for you!

guess they needed a way to make some overtime today. I said it on another thread regarding chico fire. Think what would happen if you started a fire that got out of control...you would be held liable for all expenses. Do you thing the brain dead chief who was in charge of this will be held liable. Doubt it. but I am sure he will treat himself to a nice meal, on us, for working so hard today.

Absolutely a STUPID time for a training fire.

(p.s its chico not red bluff)

Until any one of you has dealt with a fire, joined a fire department, or knows ANYTHING about fire you are not entitled to an opinion on the subject. So, what does that mean? SHUT IT!

Actually I fought fire for over ten years. I was seasonal with CDF through college, got on permanent in so cal. Then decided to move back up here and changed professions. So you shut it.

also...as long as it is our money being wasted, we are entitled to an opinion.

shut it wrote:

Until any one of you has dealt with a fire, joined a fire department, or knows ANYTHING about fire you are not entitled to an opinion on the subject. So, what does that mean? SHUT IT!

So maybe you shouldn't ever comment on politics, crime, abortion, economics...By the way weather.com is website that tells you what the weather will be (pretty important for vegatation fires) maybe you shuold check it out before a training burn!

I have to agree......stupid, stupid, stupid (I worked on a fire crew too, can I comment? lol).

Nice work Chico Fire, you put out a fire you started. What were you guys thinking starting a fire with the forcasted windy conditions. You should be held fiscally responsible for all the money you cost the city while putting out a fire YOU started. Your 25 percent pay raise over the next 6 years would be a start. A normal citizen pays thousands for a controlled fire that becomes out of control. Obviously you guys will not be held to the same high standard.

Idiots! Why even start the fire in the first place? Ive seen the citys tractor mower that could have done the same job without starting a fire and choking us out for two days. What a STUPID decison to burn during the wind!

I dont like to see my money wasted with poor decisions made by these supposed professionals. Look Chico Fire if you are going to make 100,000
dollars a year pay, lets at least ACT like you have some common sense, or it could be time for some PINK SLIPS !!!!!!!!!!

You people have it all WRONG... The FIRE DEPT Likes to run their FIRES like they RUN THEIR Budget....OUT OF CONTROL....No surprise here...Besides did anyone see those chucks truing to catch that fire in the wind...great entertainment.

Ok, let look at the real problem here. First Chico rarely ever has a fire so the Fire Personnel are not competent in what they do. They train for fires, but training is done in a controlled scenario. The Fire Personnel are better trained at sitting and sleeping at the fire station. They are the most over paid/under worked people working for the City of Chico. The Council recently gave them a five year contract where they get a 5% COLA every year. Along with the 5%, they get $250 a month for retirement healthcare. The $250 goes to $350 a month next year. They even got more vacation time. This equates to over a 35% raise over the next 5 years. Why are we paying these under worked/over paid, under trained individuals so much? The last time the City recruited for a fire fighter position, there were over 500 applications. Supply and demand suggests that they should be paid minimum wage. The City needs to create a new job title for the fire personnel (such as fire/emergency responder). Give the new job title a much lower pay and benefit package, and then eliminate the Fire Fighter positions and let them be rehired (if they want) under the new position. If they don’t, there are 500 others that will take the job at a lower pay!!!

Fed-up wrote:

Ok, let look at the real problem here. First Chico rarely ever has a fire so the Fire Personnel are not competent in what they do. They train for fires, but training is done in a controlled scenario. The Fire Personnel are better trained at sitting and sleeping at the fire station. They are the most over paid/under worked people working for the City of Chico. The Council recently gave them a five year contract where they get a 5% COLA every year. Along with the 5%, they get $250 a month for retirement healthcare. The $250 goes to $350 a month next year. They even got more vacation time. This equates to over a 35% raise over the next 5 years. Why are we paying these under worked/over paid, under trained individuals so much? The last time the City recruited for a fire fighter position, there were over 500 applications. Supply and demand suggests that they should be paid minimum wage. The City needs to create a new job title for the fire personnel (such as fire/emergency responder). Give the new job title a much lower pay and benefit package, and then eliminate the Fire Fighter positions and let them be rehired (if they want) under the new position. If they don’t, there are 500 others that will take the job at a lower pay!!!

First off. if chico "rarely has fires" then I think you should be praising the Chico FD prevention department instead of slamming them. Are you saying you want more fires? Get real. As far as "sitting and sleeping in the fire house", their stats are readily available that shows the thousands of responses they take in each year. But you would have to get your ?@! off the couch to know that.

You sound about as educated as a lab rat. Nice meaningless rant. You also sound like sombody that secretly wished they were a firefighter but could not cut the mustard; same attitude, just the faces change! To all of Chico FD: Dont let these people get you down. There are plenty of people in this city that support you and do not live in glass houses. I guess it will take these people to experience an emergency in thier family to truely appreciate the work you do. Until then I appologize to you for their harsh words.

chico guy wrote:

Actually I fought fire for over ten years. I was seasonal with CDF through college, got on permanent in so cal. Then decided to move back up here and changed professions. So you shut it.

Why did you change professions if firefighters have it so good? IF you barely had to work and got way over paid, what profession was so much better that you have now? Please let us know.

Brad Long wrote:

You people have it all WRONG... The FIRE DEPT Likes to run their FIRES like they RUN THEIR Budget....OUT OF CONTROL....No surprise here...Besides did anyone see those chucks truing to catch that fire in the wind...great entertainment.

THIS IS GREAT...Right on the money with this one

It is unfortunate that only escape control burns get the press. The Plumas National Forest fire experts under the leadership of Rick Case invited me to observe a very successful prescribed burn on 20 acres of overgrown mixed conifer forest a couple weeks ago. His team guided me around to view areas that have been managed with fire and the results are excellent. I have created a photographic presentation to illustrate the effectiveness of fire as a tool that I would be happy to share.
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Jim Brobeck, Butte County Fire Safe Council

were only happy because these over paid under worked pigs cant even do a simple task...like burn 20 acres