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Rockbuggy84 said:
So we’re not allowed to talk about why this is going on?

Get over yourself.
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Some of us have all our belongings packed into a vehicle and come in here for updates, only to find ignorant posts either about how smoky it is in yuppieville or about how we just need to log and there would be no fires. It's not that simple, it's been hashed out 10 times over in this thread.
 
WLDWUN, thank you again. Still no power in VV. For 805, are you talking about FTR John or John P? I heard the latter looking for blockingvon Went.

In your opinion/location, is the overcast more smoke or cloud? It looked like clouds were sneaking in a 6am.

It is also sounding like CodeRed crapped the bed. Most(all?) In VV got nothing for manditory. But it sounds like Sheriff beat on doors around midnight.
 
Lil'John said:
WLDWUN, thank you again. Still no power in VV. For 805, are you talking about FTR John or John P? I heard the latter looking for blockingvon Went.

In your opinion/location, is the overcast more smoke or cloud? It looked like clouds were sneaking in a 6am.

It is also sounding like CodeRed crapped the bed. Most(all?) In VV got nothing for manditory. But it sounds like Sheriff beat on doors around midnight.
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RTF John
he is on his way up there right now I think to work on issues with the repeater

the cover you are seeing is all smoke, almost all of that is from up north.
the smoke around ground level will be from the Fork fire

the view from the Bunker Hill lookout shows it has picked up only a little from this morning, but nothing like yesterday
 
They have 2 Super Scoopers working from Loon lake and making water drops on the Fork fire as seen on Flight Radar24.
 
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not sure how that will all work.
they cannot close all the roads that go through the forest

obviously, they do not have the authority to close highway 50
I doubt they can close MET as it also just passes through the Forest
sure all the dirt roads make sense
 
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WLDWUN said:
not sure how that will all work.
they cannot close all the roads that go through the forest

obviously, they do not have the authority to close highway 50
I doubt they can close MET as it also just passes through the Forest
sure all the dirt roads make sense
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Yeah, that’s why it calls out NF System land, roads and trails. Those that they control will get signed and closed. Happens in AZ every summer. But the state highways and most county roads stay open for crossing.
 
RPS1030 said:
Yeah, that’s why it calls out NF System land, roads and trails. Those that they control will get signed and closed. Happens in AZ every summer. But the state highways and most county roads stay open for crossing.
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Yah. It specifies Lands, Roads and trails. The State and Fed Highways, AKA Rte 50 are Fed/State highway (DOT not AG or Interior) property. Still, emblematic of the magnitude of the problem.
 
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YotaAtieToo said:
Some of us have all our belongings packed into a vehicle and come in here for updates, only to find ignorant posts either about how smoky it is in yuppieville or about how we just need to log and there would be no fires. It's not that simple, it's been hashed out 10 times over in this thread.
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But it smokey!:flipoff2:


Load up the family and come set up camp at my house. Fucket, head back in a day or 2.
 
having a hard time keeping up with so many going at once.

I know the big tankers are flying out of McClellan down to the Creek fire in the Tollhouse Prather area, lot of the smaller tankers are still working out of Fresno

August complex is looking to become the largest in CA history as it merges with other fires in the area

Bear-Claremont ( which is the North Complete is now over 250,000 acres

Fork fire near the Rubicon laid pretty low today but I still show the two supper-scoopers working on it as the sun sets

Oregon has their shar of pain as well

everything from Portland to the Mexican border has something close to it

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I heard on the radio today that they have the 747 tanker on the camp fire as of yesterday and another fire but I didn't catch which one. Basically rotating loads between the two.

I live close to Fresno airport and haven't seen it but not sure if I would or not. See a shit ton of helicopters though for sure, and smaller FF planes
 
dntsdad said:
I heard on the radio today that they have the 747 tanker on the camp fire as of yesterday and another fire but I didn't catch which one. Basically rotating loads between the two.

I live close to Fresno airport and haven't seen it but not sure if I would or not. See a shit ton of helicopters though for sure, and smaller FF planes
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Do you mean the Creek Fire?
 
dntsdad said:
I heard on the radio today that they have the 747 tanker on the camp fire as of yesterday and another fire but I didn't catch which one. Basically rotating loads between the two.

I live close to Fresno airport and haven't seen it but not sure if I would or not. See a shit ton of helicopters though for sure, and smaller FF planes
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The 747 and DC10(or 737 I don’t remember which) we’re flying out of Sac today. 1 hour round trip and about a 30-40 minute load time, impressive stuff for sure.

They were dropping loads all over the meadow lakes area, just an insane amount of air traffic.

Check out flightradar24.com and you can watch the planes.
 
Takotruckin said:
The 747 and DC10(or 737 I don’t remember which) we’re flying out of Sac today. 1 hour round trip and about a 30-40 minute load time, impressive stuff for sure.

They were dropping loads all over the meadow lakes area, just an insane amount of air traffic.

Check out flightradar24.com and you can watch the planes.
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Where are you located?

I'm keeping a close eye on the northwestern flank, towards Yosemite. Slow growth over the last 24hrs. Caltopo has good multi layered vris updates twice a day lately. 164,000 @ the Creek Fire.
 
trampas said:
Where are you located?

I'm keeping a close eye on the northwestern flank, towards Yosemite. Slow growth over the last 24hrs. Caltopo has good multi layered vris updates twice a day lately. 164,000 @ the Creek Fire.
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ive been watching that area between Shuteye and Little Shuteye since you mentioned that you had a place there. It is moving slow in that area from what it looks like.
 
trampas said:
Where are you located?

I'm keeping a close eye on the northwestern flank, towards Yosemite. Slow growth over the last 24hrs. Caltopo has good multi layered vris updates twice a day lately. 164,000 @ the Creek Fire.
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My place is about 5-6 miles from the southernmost part of the fire. We got evacuated Tuesday. I think it was very premature, but with kids and no power we didn’t have much of a choice.

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just from looking at the map now and then, it seems to have held its southern perimeter for a while now.

Hopefully it stays that way
 
dntsdad said:
just from looking at the map now and then, it seems to have held its southern perimeter for a while now.

Hopefully it stays that way
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And from what I heard from someone that has hunkered down on the west side of bourrough mountain that appears to be accurate. He said the activity has really died off in the area, and that it appears to be moving more East.
 
We have a place on huntington lake. we've had it since '32, grandfather built it on weekends and summers... we got tons of reports that it was gone and the maps all supported it, but we were able to get a buddy FF who was up delivering supplies to drive by. All good (for now)... somehow we are glad, but still feel awful... so many lost so much. I'm going to plan a month of vacation to go up and help people clear and rebuild...
 
gladman said:
We have a place on huntington lake. we've had it since '32, grandfather built it on weekends and summers... we got tons of reports that it was gone and the maps all supported it, but we were able to get a buddy FF who was up delivering supplies to drive by. All good (for now)... somehow we are glad, but still feel awful... so many lost so much. I'm going to plan a month of vacation to go up and help people clear and rebuild...
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that's some good luck which we need to see more of

got word that close friends parents lost their house yesterday in one of the fires in Oregon

August complex in Mendocino is now the largest in CA history at 471K acres and only 24% contained
 
WLDWUN said:
that's some good luck which we need to see more of

got word that close friends parents lost their house yesterday in one of the fires in Oregon

August complex in Mendocino is now the largest in CA history at 471K acres and only 24% contained
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I hesitated to even post.... it sucks how many people are suffering... until I got word, we were just grieving, we have so much of ourselves in that place... on the other hand, I don't want anyone dying over a cabin... We have some vacation money set aside that we have been growing for a few years, we have already decided to use it to help some neighbors with labor and materials etc to rebuild. It is just brutal.
 
We got off the Dusy-Ershim trail on tuesday afternoon and drove 168 down from Huntington through what was left of the creek fire in the area. It was not a fun drive. That area is just decimated. It'll be years before it looks like a forest again. So sad.

For those talking about logging, ironically I've seen more logging activity these past few years after the bark beetle problem than ever before. The side of the highway at the start of the 4 lanes was usually stacked with logs every summer that they've been pulling out. 20yr ago there wasn't any logging activity at all. It seems like they knew the potential and were trying to do something about it, but there are millions of acres and only so many logging crews and so much time.

Kevin
 
Ghetto Fab. said:
We got off the Dusy-Ershim trail on tuesday afternoon and drove 168 down from Huntington through what was left of the creek fire in the area. It was not a fun drive. That area is just decimated. It'll be years before it looks like a forest again. So sad.

For those talking about logging, ironically I've seen more logging activity these past few years after the bark beetle problem than ever before. The side of the highway at the start of the 4 lanes was usually stacked with logs every summer that they've been pulling out. 20yr ago there wasn't any logging activity at all. It seems like they knew the potential and were trying to do something about it, but there are millions of acres and only so many logging crews and so much time.

Kevin
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all true. The past 5 years we had tons of permission to cut and clear and we have been aggressive about it. SCE crews have been logging the shit out of the lake, but you are so right, so many trees. Our ranger told us last spring that we have 40 trees per acre and we should have 6. I have an alaskan sawmill (our cabin is all true dimension and local cut wood) and I've been making lumber and getting lumber from a Pirate in Dinkey Creek, and remodeling our place.. I'd just finished remodeling our boathouse and two days later, the fire started. It is absolutely a terrible thing for the folks who lost property, but this may be the fuel reduction we need, and as we rebuild and restore, we can continue thinning and get it right.

I was invited to a meeting today with the sec of agriculture to talk specifically about the Sierra NF and Huntington, it will be mostly me listening, but I think people want to do the right thing by the forest, the policies since they started actually noticing and caring (maybe 100 years or so) have almost always been wrong. This is a chance to have a moderate, smart plan... I hope it happens.

Glad you got out safe. I hope we get through it without death.. and that we can rebuild what is destroyed.
 
talk about taking the number one spot on the all time list, and still only 25% contained



August Complex

Incident Type: Wildfire
Updated: 11 hrs. ago
Size: 746,607 Acres
Contained: 25%
 
Takotruckin said:
My place is about 5-6 miles from the southernmost part of the fire. We got evacuated Tuesday. I think it was very premature, but with kids and no power we didn’t have much of a choice.
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I'm in Hanford and have a big driveway if you need to park anything for a few days.
 
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