Stories from the Smokehouse Creek Wildfire | Jeff & John Haley
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- Опубліковано 5 бер 2024
- Jeff Haley ranches in Gray County. His nephew John northeast in Hemphill County. Last week both found themselves in the path of the historic Smokehouse Creek Wildfire. Hear their experience battling and surviving Texas largest wildfire.
California firefighter here. I have lost family and property to natural disasters. Was visiting my brother in TX when these fires broke out and it made my heart sink. I pray for a speedy recovery. God Bless
One of the best news clips about this horrible situation. Ranchers & Farmers are tough as nails, but their hurtin' on the inside. Their the difference between us eating BEEF or BUGS.
Grateful that your family is ok. Your courage in trying to protect your ranch is that of heros. I hope the Haley ranch returns more prosperous. Please stay strong.
Sad situation, stay strong fellas and may GOD bless.
Prayers for Texas!!❤❤❤ 3:00
God bless you and prayers to you all and all your livestock.
Prayers to you and your family and all your animals.
Guys, dont give up, God really does His best work when we are down. I am very consoled to see that you were able to save some. Special prayers for your ranch. When I am weak then I am strong , words of Apostle Paul.
I like the idea that you disked up some ground to create a fire free zone.... Not sure why more of that is not done. Perhaps the land does not lend itself to being disked.
Sending my thoughts and prayers to you all. GOD BLESS THE FARMERS AND RANCHERS..
Prayers for you and all folks and animals. Just so sad.
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so sad. Prayers.
May God bless you.
All the best to North Texas from another part of the country hard hit by fire. It’ll actually get tougher for a bit, with higher insurance, rebuilding and other costs. Then it’ll get better.
3:01. Three intact structures at the bottom, one on the left. What else do they have in common?
I’ve always wondered if ranchers cut the fencing to let cattle/livestock go free and collect livestock later? All the ranchers will help eachother.
Texas and Oklahoma. We have plenty of Hay. Come and get it in Missouri Arkansas 🇺🇸.
That’s a stupid comment to ask why they couldn’t disk a fire break. As a farmer/rancher, you’re working 24/7 to keep these babies safe, it doesn’t always work even in the best of times. If think this is an easy life, jump in with both feet and get you some of it. Respect and honor our farmers, they’re working non stop to feed our country. It’s a hard life with not much profit or glory. If you don’t know the life, shut up and listen.
This is along the Canadian River. Many of the canyons are too steep to cross except carefully with a horse.
I honestly can’t grasp why ranchers out there didn’t PLOW large firebreaks even when the fire was 50 miles away? Why wouldn’t you prepare for the worst and just start turning sod so a lot more could have been saved??
@T410ce. This is a world that you obviously don’t understand. Have you wondered yet why there’s so much of this ground that is in grass and not more of it cultivated?….didn’t think so. Most of this ground is too rough to cultivate. Your talking about needing to plow at least a 100 foot swath, (and with a fire this size, with this much wind, that’s not gonna be enough) and btw, one pass with a 30 foot plow is not gonna just turn this century old stand of grass into straight dirt, it’s gonna take multiple passes to really get completely turned. Now let’s say your entire headquarters lays in an 80 acre square, so you gather herd up and get it penned at headquarters and now you start plowing around it. It’s a minimum of 1 1/2 miles around this 80 acre square, 30 foot plow, 3 passes, that’s 90 foot swath. Now you do that a minimum of 3 times to get it turned over good. That’s 13.5 miles at 3 mi/hour, that’s minimum of 4 hours. That’s after cattle are already gathered and penned. You starting to see our point here??!!
Wind blowing that hard blows embers easily a 1/4 mile and reignites. 100’ swath is not going to do anything. On a calmer day sure it’d help. Been there done that myself. Our fire was nothing compared to this one in size either.