Posted on 08/17/2021 6:46:21 AM PDT by rktman
By now, most people know that a large part of the western United States is blazingwith forest fires. There are actually 100 large fires burning in 14 states, with dozens more blazing in western Canada.
Phys.org reported that, "The roughly 21,000 federal firefighters working on the ground is more than double the number of firefighters sent to contain forest fires at this time a year ago, and the agency is facing 'critical resources limitations,' said Anthony Scardina, a deputy forester for the agency's Pacific Southwest region."
An estimated 6,170 firefighters alone are battling the Dixie Fire in Northern California, right now the largest fire in the U.S.
The L.A. Times reported last week, "After igniting a month ago, the Dixie Fire has now seared 510,227 acres. It is the second-largest wildfire in California history and the 14th most destructive, burning more than 550 homes. It has scorched parts of Plumas, Lassen, Butte and Tehama counties, north of Sacramento, and was [only] 30% contained as of Thursday."
Tragically, Plumas County's small towns of Greenville and Canyon Dam were largely leveled to the ground by the Dixie Fire, but my wife's little mountain hometown of Chester seemed to have been miraculously spared. A mandatory evacuation order from Sheriff Todd Johns was issued two days before the fire hit for all the vicinities surrounding Lake Almanor, including Chester.
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Thanks.
Sure thing. The red dots over by Jamesville are actually ash in the air. Some of the dots are from other heat sources than fire. But that site is the best for knowing where it actually is.
We off road a lot and I follow fires pretty closely.
Here is my favorite set of fire sites:
National Fire Situational Awareness Map-
For the latest maps from infrared detections and aircraft surveyed fire boundaries.
https://maps.nwcg.gov/sa/#/%3F/%3F/39.1238/-112.1769/6
Incident Information System:
Clearing house for all the briefings and official information.
https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/
The EPAs air quality map:
https://fire.airnow.gov/
Fire Cameras
Links to realtime feeds from lots of fire cameras (too smokey now for them to be much use)
http://beta.alertwildfire.org/
Thanks. Trying to keep up. Looks like 395 south of Susanville is closed headed towards Reno. Hopefully folks are keeping an eye on escape routes. Becoming more scarce.
The current AQI in Reno is 174.
Yeah looks like Janesville is on fire.
Some places around down town are reading double that.
Friend just drove through an hour ago. Town “proper” okay for now. Outskirts and south pretty well scorched. 395 southbound was open.
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