Wildfire ‘24

[Meadow Skipper]

Uh oh, this is bad.
Water Scooper Air Tanker fighting Horse Gulch Fire crashes

[406]

"local" (to San Diego) ski area is threatened by a fire, facebook post from a few days ago with some good video from the ski runs:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/976584827481384

Held at the boundary of the ski runs as of this morning. https://inciweb.wildfire.gov/inciden...bdf-vista-fire

Going to be a long summer this year

[mcski]

Baldy posted today that they were feeling like they are out of the crosshairs now and danger zone has moved past them.

I thought there was some other ski area I had never heard about in SD. Maybe it’s the closest resort to SD but Baldy is a lot closer to LA, Pasadena, etc

[snapt]

Lots of pucker factor all over the west going into this weekend. Record heat wave with the potential for dry lightning. We're attempting to upstaff engines.

[east or bust]

Are there any resources where you can get a list view of all current fires and sort by name/acres? I’m only familiar with the inciweb map.


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[2FUNKY]

Are there any resources where you can get a list view of all current fires and sort by name/acres? I’m only familiar with the inciweb map.


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Watch duty app is a pretty good resource.


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[hawkgt]

Uh oh, this is bad.
Water Scooper Air Tanker fighting Horse Gulch Fire crashes

more info and theory of cause

[Meadow Skipper]

^ I don’t recall previously hearing of a woman tanker pilot being killed.

RIP

[The Reverend Floater]

We've got one up here in the Sawtooth Valley in the Bench Lakes Fire. It started yesterday afternoon.

Some of you know the area from ski touring and some of you may have been to Redfish Lake, which is directly across from the fire. Unfortunately, a helicopter went down yesterday evening, though fire coordinators haven't shared a ton of detail on that yet.

I'll grab some pics tonight--we're right across the valley floor!

[The SnowShow]

I’m out of town but I hear there’s a fire near NCAR in Boulder

[Hopeless Sinner]

We've got one up here in the Sawtooth Valley in the Bench Lakes Fire. It started yesterday afternoon.

Some of you know the area from ski touring and some of you may have been to Redfish Lake, which is directly across from the fire. Unfortunately, a helicopter went down yesterday evening, though fire coordinators haven't shared a ton of detail on that yet.

I'll grab some pics tonight--we're right across the valley floor!

Pilot walked out w assistance.

[The Reverend Floater]

Pilot walked out w assistance.

Yeah, just read that. I can't tell if he was a professional working the fire or a tourist pilot checking out the fire...pretty ambiguous.

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[telehacker]

Bucket work on the Bench fire, landed in the water in one of the Bench lakes. Pilot swan to shore was checked out and is OK. Fire is up to 60 or 80 acres. Team inbound more for the recovery and investigation.

[The Reverend Floater]

She's heating up! Shot this from just in front of our place.

[The Reverend Floater]

[m2711c]

that really sucks... but those pictures are beautiful!

[mtnjam]

Bucket work on the Bench fire, landed in the water in one of the Bench lakes. Pilot swan to shore was checked out and is OK. Fire is up to 60 or 80 acres. Team inbound more for the recovery and investigation.

That would explain why there was so little for aerial activity. I watched the aerial drop planes making laps while I was fishing Gold Creek on Saturday morning. Looked like they had a little bit of control of it during Saturday morning, but then the wind picked up again. While we were cooking dinner at camp on Saturday night thought I heard one of the super tankers make a lap, but never saw it.

Goddamn people needing a fire in camp while backpacking always amazes me. Why do you need a fire on a 90 degree day? Are you cold, or do you just need something to look at even though there is cell service up there so you can stare at your phone too while your fire burns unattended?

[Norseman]

View from my office, looking over Missoula.

[Norseman]

Visited the retardant base next door this morning

[Kevo]

Are there any resources where you can get a list view of all current fires and sort by name/acres? I’m only familiar with the inciweb map.


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This is updated daily- https://www.nifc.gov/nicc-files/sitreprt.pdf

Important to note that sometimes fires being managed for resource benefit and not suppression are not included.

[TBS]

Shits getting real in OR
Cow Valley fire - south of Baker City, west of Weiser ID - 133k acres of grass & brush, 10% contained

Falls Fire - NW of Burns - 91k acres of scrubland, no containment

Lone Rock Fire - SE of Condon, 71k acres of scrub, 10% contained, town of Lonerock under level 3 evac orders

Larch Creek Fire - west of Tyghe Valley - 19k acres of timber and scrub, 27% contained.

And last night in Central OR, we had lightning come thru and at least six new fires started.

Here we go again…

[Conundrum]

We've been catching your smoke in SW Idaho for awhile now. Stay safe.

[XXX-er]

more info and theory of cause

those airtractors are amazing and thats a cool vid ^^ , when they sortie out of here the crew have a table reserved at the local craft brew where they toast the mission

[Buzzworthy]

We've been catching your smoke in SW Idaho for awhile now. Stay safe.

It’s here too as of yesterday.

[bodywhomper]

Shits getting real in OR
Cow Valley fire - south of Baker City, west of Weiser ID - 133k acres of grass & brush, 10% contained

Falls Fire - NW of Burns - 91k acres of scrubland, no containment

Lone Rock Fire - SE of Condon, 71k acres of scrub, 10% contained, town of Lonerock under level 3 evac orders

Larch Creek Fire - west of Tyghe Valley - 19k acres of timber and scrub, 27% contained.

And last night in Central OR, we had lightning come thru and at least six new fires started.

Here we go again…

My friend’s husband may have saved part of Taylor on Monday. Power outage in town. Riding his bike home in the heatwave. Saw a chip pile burning under a power pole. Tried to smother it, and dumped all his water on it. Found a cop nearby-is who was ticketing somebody. Had the cop call it in. FD showed up shortly and extinguished.