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2024 Wildfire season. :(

I live off I5 and last night the smoke was a burning red color. This strikingly similar to when paradise burned.
 
no real burn scars to slow it going north
it is close to 400K right now which would be the second largest single fire in state history
the big one to the right is the largest
Dixie fire
936K in 2021

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Park Fire now according to watch duty website fire is at 350,000 acres, 10% Containment.


Now 360,000 acres, 12% Containment.
 
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Looking at the google map of the fire, they have two grey shaded areas. One light with dotted line for boundary and another darker grey area within. Is this supposed to indicate smoke?
 
Yota Up said:
Looking at the google map of the fire, they have two grey shaded areas. One light with dotted line for boundary and another darker grey area within. Is this supposed to indicate smoke?
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I think so, but didn't see a legend.

Or it's AI saying where the fire is going :stirthepot:
 
Man that started park fire arraigned today, has 2 strikes if found guilty of specific charge could be his 3rd strike and receive 25 to life.


Video on various news web sites with DA Ramsey.
 
Sand Stone Fire along side AZ-87 between Payson and Phoenix.

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I came up Saturday afternoon and could see the edge of the fire from the highway (the image above was taken a few hours later, Saturday night). Az-87 Southbound closed on Sunday and remains closed. I'm supposed to be driving back to Phoenix tomorrow evening, looks like I'll be taking an alternate route.

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13,000 acres so far, 0% contained (as of 5pm last night).
 
blakes said:
A prime example is FS road 295 across from my property. They closed it 4 years ago due to the wildfire that came through here. This trail is the ONLY other way off this mountain aside from the main entrance.

Yet it's still closed. :flipoff:
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Hope you cut locks and rode over gates today

Check your PMs. Worried about you there in Storm Mountain
 
Got almost racy yesterday afternoon. 1/2-3/4 mile away from roadside fire(s) that got started by flat/gone trailer tires (allegedly). GF saw it on the way home from the store. She tried to get more pics, I got her back inside to focus on anything extra she might want to grab. We’ve alreasr been talking and gathering the first priority level stuff. And we just got back from a weekend getaway we had cut short, so some stuff was already packed.

This was way early as it got a lot more dark as it got up to almost 30 acres. SEATs were buzzing around hard.
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We all need to make check lists during calmer times and have them ready for when the time comes.

Meaning make lists of the important things to pack when "mandatory evacuation time" is at hand.
 
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XtremeJ said:
Hope you cut locks and rode over gates today

Check your PMs. Worried about you there in Storm Mountain
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They were talking about opening the gates and the trails across my property, but still have not.

I think I'm gonna squeak past this one...

The fire is over 800 acres and about 5 3/4 miles from me. Calm winds.

Pics taken from my front porch.

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PAE said:
We all need to make check lists during calmer times and have them ready for when the time comes.
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Our grab bags with passports, IDs, titles, deeds, etc are never unpacked only updated. They live in the safe if we are not under threat of evacuation then they are at the back door or in the car(s)

Been 4 years since the Cameron Peak fire that burned the two homes closest to us. So needed to cut back some brush today and add diesel to the genset
 
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3pm on a water run, taken near the osprey nest

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It moved more than a mile north between my two water runs about 90 mins apart. Could move another mile before it gets to Cameron Peak and Bobcat Gulch previous burns. Never comfortable having a fire within ten miles. Wind now pushing it south which is good from our point of view.
 
I find it interesting they use aircraft at night in CA. I took this screenshot at 11:50PM MT

Here in CO they tried that a few years ago and a guy flew right into the mountain and died.


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blakes said:
I find it interesting they use aircraft at night in CA. I took this screenshot at 11:50PM MT

Here in CO they tried that a few years ago and a guy flew right into the mountain and died.


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Eastern flank of that fire is some beautiful forest. :frown:
 
Watchduty.org now has live camera links, tag or switch the item in layers and then the links to cameras will be available on the fire maps at specific magnification factors.





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blakes said:
I find it interesting they use aircraft at night in CA. I took this screenshot at 11:50PM MT
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Coulson Aviation is the only one I know that is set up to fly at night.

4) Coulson Aviation is the first company in the world to incorporate NVG (Night Vision Goggles) technology within a Sikorksy S-61 aircrew configuration, and develop highly detailed operational practices, required to safely conduct aerial firefighting with the potential to be 10 times more efficient than daytime aerial firefighting operations.
 
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Coulson Aviation is the only one I know that is set up to fly at night.

4) Coulson Aviation is the first company in the world to incorporate NVG (Night Vision Goggles) technology within a Sikorksy S-61 aircrew configuration, and develop highly detailed operational practices, required to safely conduct aerial firefighting with the potential to be 10 times more efficient than daytime aerial firefighting operations.
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Wow
 
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