 Hi, I am Eric. I'm from a northern small town called Luleå in Sweden and You're watching trucker Josh vlogs on YouTube Well today was an interesting start to the day We had a fire on our property Lightning struck a tree and blew it up and the littered on fire And the whole room the whole house just turned a bright purple The lightning was so close and the thunder just shook the ground and shook the the The house and I was like oh, I hope I hope that didn't hit anything and you know about half an hour later I also saw smoke drifting down our property right so I had to Well, I ran out to my pickup jumped in the pickup Ran out to the back of the property drove around to the back of the property Jumped out ran through the bush to see what was smoking and turned out Yeah, I found the tree that was just exploded and flames were like 50 feet high It was way up there So I called the fire department called 911 got a hold of them got a hold of the RCMP And they sent the fire chief out to take a look at it and the RCMP came by to take a look and make sure Everything was good that take our statements and stuff and it's an emergency call and The fire chief went and look at about time the fire chief got here like it's a very cold rainy day It's snowing sleeting raining and everything's very wet We're just getting our first snowfall of the year So the fire chief wasn't too worried about it spreading by the time he got here The flames had already gone way down and it was practically almost just smoldering and he said that it's not really a big risk But I should keep an eye on it So I've got a bucket and I'm walking all the way around because we have no bridge over our creek yet And it's on the other side of the creek. So it would be very hard for them to access it They'd have to go back there with ATVs and stuff So I'm gonna go back there with my bucket and I'm gonna grab water from our creek and I'm gonna put it out myself Even though it's just it's just smoldering It's not worth it for the fire department to use all of their resources for something that's not gonna go anywhere You know, I mean they got lots of other things going on. I mean, it's their first snowfall of the year There's got to be lots of people in the ditch and lots of accidents going on So I don't feel bad about them Or mad or upset that they didn't want to put it all out I can easily go back there with a bucket But it's just when I did call them it was scary because at that time it was just huge flames, right? I thought it was gonna spread to our whole property and burn everything down If it had been a dry season if it had been a regular August like we usually have with with no rain And oh, it would have spread or half our property would have been burnt down by the time they got here So thank God that it was a wet year and that the snow came down today And yeah Freaky, but I've got to go all the way around now to where I can get across the creek and then hike all the way back to where the Lightning hit the tree on our property on the other side of the creek. There's a bit of a long hike So I'm all sort of dressed up. It's not that cold. It's just a little wet and miserable outside. We're gonna go and Throw some water on it. All right, so the tree that got hit I believe is down there got my bucket Now this side of the property Has not been Developed at all. So all we got are these little deer trails going through here Coyote trails, whatever they are And I've got to find a way through this thick brush To get down to where that tree is smoldering Aha, here we go. Here's a deer trail going down here. Oh Boy, no, that's more of a rabbit trail How am I gonna get through this? I'm just gonna have to push myself down And push my way down. All right, we're making a new trail today Gotta get down there Oh Okay Okay Yep. Yep. We're going down. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Here we go. There we go. All right Continue going through here Oh boy. Oh push it out of the way. Push it out of the way. Come on. Come on Come on. Oh Okay, come on. Oh, here we go. Okay. All right. Whoo. No joke. I've got to build the trail Shoot. Hey, I gotta say higher ground Where is it? Oh boy. Lots of water over here. There it is. I'm just gonna grab water from here See it's still smoldering pretty good here Lightning just blew it to smotherings. Oh, here's a little beaver trail here. Let's not fall in here Oh, wow Look at this Oh, wow That is crazy what lightning can do. Look at this It's all over here. Oh it hit two of them because this one's blown up too So yeah, like you can see it's no real threat But I don't want to leave it like this I don't like leaving this out here if this the rest of this catches That's a bad thing Got brit and shavvy up there somewhere on the other side of the creek They were there watching me See yesterday when I took you on that trail That trail goes right along the side of the creek on that side Now we're on this side Imagine how hard it would be for them to reach this like there's no way to get to it without Getting over the creek I had to go way around Chevy bled brit Down the trail there. I'm trying to keep you guys out of the wind. It's pretty windy. See brit over there Chevy's there brit hadn't been down the trail yet, but chevy showed her where it was. There he is. Hey chevy Good boy, so you don't jump in the water you stay there. I don't need your help. I'm good It's on fire now. Got a little bit of a breeze through here lit it right up Okay, we got to hurry I got to figure out where I can get down close enough to the creek to fill this up Well, we've gotten two buckets on there already. I'm gonna keep going for a while But look at this how it blew this tree apart pieces from it over here pieces Over here as well somewhere. I thought I saw something. Yeah way over here That got blown off The tree literally blew up It's all the way over there It's crazy So I've got to grab the water from by that little tree there on the right shore It's the only place I can get close enough to the water Yeah Fun times country life, right country life I gotta go down here Don't want to fall in the water that wouldn't help anything I'm gonna hold on to my other glove here. Well, this is harder to do with one hand, but we're gonna try it You can get much in there Whatever this is for your benefit. I want to show you what I'm doing here Okay, so we got the bucket back over there to the tree So how many of you can say you put out a fire in your back bush today? And what's with all this snow? It's too early for this and you know Most of Manitoba is covered in like a foot of snow right now. We didn't actually get that much okay I'll just Put you down on there and do a couple more times yet until this stops moldering Britt and I have our date tonight in Winnipeg a Cirque du Soleil And I don't want to have this smoldering back here when we Head into head into the city Man, I don't even know where the tree went. The biggest piece is right there This piece is all over here All around here just blew up. See there's a piece right there Pieces back there pieces back there this tree was already fallen by the looks of it that that wasn't the one that fell today Wow Wow, so I put about six buckets on it right now. I'm gonna put another two or three on there It's pretty much all taken care of it's just I don't like it that it's still smoking because it's that means that there's still Heat in there and that heat can dry out the wood that I just soaked in water And then if a wind comes through here and it smolders up it can relight So we'll just babysit it here for a little while yet Yikes Yikes Yikes, I wish I would have had that on the vlog how loud that lightning was I thought that it was a little further out that way But uh, it was just the whole house filled with light like The whole house was purple light bright And instantly the second the house filled with light the big crashing boom. It wasn't even a boom. It was just a crack And just everything was just whoa like an earthquake I thought that it might have hit the tower in town But apparently no it was like it was right here Right on our right on our land. I mean, this is quite a waste from the house still if you're walking but Still it's our property and can you imagine if this was the dry season? All of this grass here if this was dry Can you imagine by the time we realized there was a fire out here? This would have all been burnt down All of it and it would have spread to those trees back there and to our whole property We're lucky that it's on this side of the creek I mean the creek would have acted as a natural barrier for the fire so it wouldn't get to where our home is on the other side But still Thank god for this wet weather Britt was saying before to the rcmp officer who was talking to us Look, we're probably the only people in manitoba that are thankful for this weather right now But man that could have been bad could have been bad our whole property Some that's I don't want to say it's a fear you have to live with but it's a reality You have to live with when you live out in the bush like this like You got to be vigilant. You got to keep your eyes open for little fires like this I'm glad I caught it when when I did and you know the weather was helping us out Because how would the fire department get here like the closest they got was to that bank right over there I guess they could run their hose that run a bunch of extension hoses and Run down the creek It's it's quite a trek to go all the way around to this side right now without a bridge Because there are bridges like on either side way further down just We have to cross over there and walk back here You see that it's starting to smoke more again. It's starting to crackle again. That means this is drying out I want to make sure that all this here is Not going to reignite that there's no Embers in there anywhere crazy Have I said that yet crazy What did you do today? Well, I'm comfortable with the job I did putting it out and sulking it really good like more than enough Now I got to get back home I've never actually gone through this part of the forest before I've gone nearby, but this isn't my first time through this little section here anymore This Is what i'm talking about. We're gonna have all kinds of nature trails leading through here Just like on the other side. Isn't that going to be beautiful? I don't want to develop it too much. I want it to stay natural I just want nice little developed trails leading through it. Oh, there's a little stream here Okay, we don't want to step in that. We want a beaver highway. Maybe Let's jump over it How far out does it go might be underneath that snow yet? Let's go over here I don't want to get a booter. Okay, here we go There we go Which way are we going again? Okay, I can see the hill back there. We got to go up the hill How do we get there? Man, it would have been impossible for a fire crew to get out here Oh boy That would have been a huge deal. I'm so glad that it wasn't any worse Okay Okay, now we got to push our way up through this Let's do this Oh, this is what I live for Awesome. I remember as a kid I grew up on a property somewhat like this One of the one of the big reasons I wanted this property was because it reminded me of my childhood home We used to have bush live in the bush like this and I would Just go push them through the bush like this all the time make my own trails We'll see what's out here. You know We're still trekking through here We've got something out here. I guess previous owners before us Had kids and they built some kind of a little forked over here One one of these years. I've got to come back here and Clean this up because they left a mess I got this here. I guess they played paintballs or something like this here And they got a forked all the way down here But they left it just a mess just all this wood all over the place I don't want to go too close in here too because a lot of these boards have nails sticking up out of them but Look at this massive tree that fell over though. I guess it used to be a tree house or something Look at this thing Just a beast Oh, I love it out here. I love it And it opens up into some grasslands out here yet On the other side of this bush like here it opens up a little bit It opens up again on the other side of these trees a ways down there And we have I think a 400 by 800 foot lot out there That's nice. It would be nice for development one day, right? I'm seeing quad tracks through here They must be pretty old though because they go like right through this tree So I'm guessing there must be a few years old, but they better be Otherwise someone's been trespassing I haven't had my quad back here yet Actually, wait, we did come back through here last winter, right? Went for a rip around here. Might have been me Might have been me I don't even want to go back. I just want to stay out here. Everybody looks comfy Safe and sound from the fires Wasn't actually that big of a fire. It could have been a lot worse Could have been and it sort of panicked me a lot because I wasn't sure how wet it was back there, but it turned out that Is it will be put out really quickly? Anyways, that's it for today's video tomorrow Tomorrow we're going into Winnipeg. We have Cirque du Soleil Let's hope you guys tune in for that. It should be a lot of fun I hear we're supposed to get a lot of snow. So I guess we'll see what happens Good thing we got the winter tires on the terrain. I hope it doesn't snow again. It doesn't get canceled Hi, I am Eric. I'm from a northern small town called Luleå in sweden and uh, you're watching Trucker Josh vlogs on youtube