BBQed Bees?

[aggienaut]

   As you may recall, where I left off on reporting on real life here, I was back working at the bee mines and had that day been unable to get to the bees due to the highway being closed, allegedly due to fallen trees.

   Well it turns out, it wasn't because of fallen trees.


   It takes about an hour driving up a winding roads into the hills to get to where the bees are. The next day, Friday, the road was not closed, and I was able to go up there. After about 20 minutes on the paved highway one turns off and drives up a dirt road for about a mile and a half. There's a bunch of buildings and ranches just off the highway but then it quickly disappears into the wilderness of the hills.
   Finally I come out to the meadow at the far side of which the beehives are. I am find myself looking in shock at a meadow full of trucks. Green forest service firetrucks, a few red ones. Support vehicles. And right in the middle, in the very middle of lifting off, a helicopter.
   Firefighters are walking around all over the place. I ask some nearby what's going on and they point to a burned patch just a few hundred yards from the bees, saying they are putting the "final touches" on the wildfire (I can't see any flames).
   Being as I haven't heard anything about this fire, and the Cal Trans website the day before had definitely said it was because of downed trees that the road was closed I feel like this is some kind of government conspiracy to keep the fire under wraps or something.

   Didn't get any pictures of the helicopter unfortunately as it was just taking off when I got there and I was trying to figure out what the hell was going on, but here's some other pictures:

The helicopter was taking off in that clear area in front of the white box truck


Forest Service firefighters = totally undaunted by honeybees




The other bee yard (Bee Yard F) by a different nearby meadow


Here you can see the burned area and the trucks
Go here to see the two areas highlighted if you can't find them.

Comments

[i-dread.livejournal.com]

Thats some Scully Moulder shit. Love the Bees.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Well there WAS a lot of bees in that one X-Files movie. Not the new one which I heard was crap but that other one.

[troubleagain.livejournal.com]

The bees were okay, yes?

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Oh yes just fine. (:

[angelic-mystic.livejournal.com]

Are the bees ok?

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Oh yes just fine. (:

[angelic-mystic.livejournal.com]

Good.

[soothethemuse.livejournal.com]

Sounds like gov't conspiracy to me. Odd.

And I thought, when you said bees, you were talking about being an office drone again and were going toward the hive where the other bees were.

*laugh*

Awesome.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Haha nope I mean real bees! (:

[yukonsally]

EFO :)

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

EFO?

[plastrickland23.livejournal.com]

Hopefully the bees were ok? P.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Oh yes just fine. (:

[billzy.livejournal.com]

UFO Crash landing!

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

I think so!!!

[dydan.livejournal.com]

I am totally fascinated by beekeeping. I peeked at the LJ community once and was blown away by just how much work and knowledge goes into maintaining a hive.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

I've had several old beekeepers mention "I still learn something new every day" about beekeeping. It's easy to get into but there's so much you can keep learning, it's awesome! (:

[oldscratchx.livejournal.com]

Looks like they left the bees alone. Good thing.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Yeah I was afraid they'd want them out of their way and do something unpleasant to be bee free, but the firefighters and bees seemed to be completely fine with one another. (:

[chandrielle.livejournal.com]

I love how they just parked next to the bees and didn't care.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Yeah these ain't no city firefighters, forest service firefighters do what they motherfucking want! :D

[geordielass.livejournal.com]

bee hives have always fascinated me. :)

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Yeah there's so many different fascinating things about beehives. The population dynamics, the "economy" of how they distribute labour and resources, the communications and planning.... !!

[spilt-erum.livejournal.com]

Was it a big fire? We've been looking for decent fire sites forever.

Go forest service!!!

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

I don't think it was terribly big. Who is we and why are you looking for fire sites? O_o

Go forest service!!!

Indeed! (:

[spilt-erum.livejournal.com]

We need another study site. I do fire restoration and ecology studies in dry high desert areas with the forest service.

Fires were lacking last summer.. we didn't find one that was big enough to suppliment a reasonable study to begin this fall, so are behind a year in research.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Hmm yeah I think it was relatively small, I dunno, if you have an inside line you can probably find out more about it than I can probably (:

Also that sounds neat!

[wildcelticrose.livejournal.com]

those funky green crew cab fire engines?

I used to operate one of those :)

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Nice! Why are they tooth paste green???

I was thinking forest service would be a fun job.. what are your thoughts?

[xaositecte.livejournal.com]

forest fires make trees fall down :p

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Hahaha touche

[elvenforever.livejournal.com]

It reminds me of the time I went to the ER for vomiting blood and ended up next to the driver of the train that hit the bus in the hall. RTD cut some kinda deal with the local press because the bus/train accident was very played down, hardly in the news at all, and Fox News reported "no injuries" when in fact people were being treated all over the CITY for injuries, including the train driver!

Good Lord, I hate the media sometimes. *sigh*

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Hah wow.

[elvenforever.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I assumed it would blitz the papers and nothing. Nice cover-up, eh?

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

I did think it was mighty peculiar there was not a peep about this fire on the tv or radio and official sources termed the closures "fallen trees" the day before. Mighty peculiar.

[elvenforever.livejournal.com]

Yep. Makes you wonder why they wanted to cover it up.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Indeed, indeed ::strokes imaginary beard::

[elvenforever.livejournal.com]

Bet you're wishing for those muttonchops about now. :)

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Every time I see my reflection! ):

[technophobe1975.livejournal.com]

Are Bee Busters anything like Ghostbusters?

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Exactly so! Look at our logo!

The uniform looks similar too, as seen in this picture of two of them hard at work