American Wildfires

BobBitchen

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Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere on Instagram: "Stunning satellite imagery shows the Park Fire exhibiting extreme wildfire behavior. Today, the fire has exploded in size to more than 120,000 acres. #parkfire #california #wildfires #sacramento Details: This video shows imagery from the GOES-18 weather satellite. A GeoColor and Fire Temperature product are used to depict the Park Fire. The animation takes place over a twelve hour period from 14:30 UTC on July 25th to 2:10 UTC on July 26th, 2024."

16K likes, 818 comments - cira_csu on July 25, 2024: "Stunning satellite imagery shows the Park Fire exhibiting extreme wildfire behavior. Today, the fire has exploded in size to more than 120,000 acres. #parkfire #california #wildfires #sacramento Details: This video shows imagery from the...
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Dr.Amber Trichome

Dr.Amber Trichome

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Aeroknow said:
No that’s my neighbors land in the pic, except for the top of that oak tree. I’m on 10acres that looks similar to what you see with a few sprinkled trees throughout and a little flatter.
I bought out here because it’s just grassland and not too many neighbors. Much easier to create a defensible space around the house. i’m very safe from the Park fire but we’ve had some close calls out this way already with some smaller fires. But l’m much safer out here compared to up just a little higher in the foothills. Sucks to not have many trees out here. I used to love the trees originally being from the Santa Cruz mountains and all but after what happened in Paradise they scare the hell out of me now. At least here in the NorthState they do.
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I hope you’re doing ok! It’s a terrible situation. We have just a little haze down here in the South Bay. We were at Ano Nuevo State Park today and got to check out some molting Elephant Seals. There was a fire in the mountains behind the park at some point. Even the coast isn’t safe. Those mountains are so sandy . Those trees helped to preserve the structure of the hillside by hwy 1. Without them you can see the serious erosion and sand just collapsing from the hillside onto the hwy. I wouldn’t want to drive that during a heavy rainstorm.
In the picture are those fried mountains and in the water the elephant seals swimming to shore and some on the sand in the sun molting. Those Elephant Seals are incredible.
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Phytoplankton

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Park Fire: My buddy had a place in Cohasset, 40 acres on the ridge above Rock Creek, well inside the burn, it survived! He had a pool, and when the power went out they sucked water out of the pool and saved the house. Unfortunately there’s no muni water service up there, just wells, so when the power died they couldn’t refill the trucks.

Fire is eating about 10 sq miles an hour! Heading towards Manton, they sent two strike teams and 10 engines to Manton, if they can’t stop it there, it’s a straight shot uphill in heavy brush to Shingletown! Next stop Burney! I’m concerned as I have property about 15 miles from the fire, no evac order…… yet.
Edit: Calfire has also requested 3 large borate bombers, two smaller bombers and helicopters for water drops in the Manton area, they will be flying at first light. Hopefully they can hold the line overnight until the bombers can fly.
 
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Aeroknow

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Phytoplankton said:
Park Fire: My buddy had a place in Cohasset, 40 acres on the ridge above Rock Creek, well inside the burn, it survived! He had a pool, and when the power went out they sucked water out of the pool and saved the house. Unfortunately there’s no muni water service up there, just wells, so when the power died they couldn’t refill the trucks.

Fire is eating about 10 sq miles an hour! Heading towards Manton, they sent two strike teams and 10 engines to Manton, if they can’t stop it there, it’s a straight shot uphill in heavy brush to Shingletown! Next stop Burney! I’m concerned as I have property about 15 miles from the fire, no evac order…… yet.
Edit: Calfire has also requested 3 large borate bombers, two smaller bombers and helicopters for water drops in the Manton area, they will be flying at first light. Hopefully they can hold the line overnight until the bombers can fly.
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Hell yeah for your Buddy in Cohasset! And talking about wells up there, that was one of the main reasons I chose not to rebuild over there(and Forest Ranch). I was scoping out some properties. tried to get a guesstimate how expensive drilling a well up there would be and I got some crazy high numbers so thank god I came to my senses and rebuilt down lower over here where its much safer.
Gotta think ahead and have a generator on standby to backfeed the panel for the well pump during power outages.

Hopefully with the wind picking up overnight that didn’t push it up north more. Was looking allot better yesterday.
Will be hoping the dude from “The Lookout” has an early update this morning. That guy knows his shit.

My old trimmer lives in Manton. If they end up evacuating they’ll be headed to my property down here and I haven’t gotten a call so knock on wood.

Good luck to you guys up there. My heart goes out to everyone affected by this fire.

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Phytoplankton

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Aeroknow said:
Hell yeah for your Buddy in Cohasset! And talking about wells up there, that was one of the main reasons I chose not to rebuild over there(and Forest Ranch). I was scoping out some properties. tried to get a guesstimate how expensive drilling a well up there would be and I got some crazy high numbers so thank god I came to my senses and rebuilt down lower over here where its much safer.
Gotta think ahead and have a generator on standby to backfeed the panel for the well pump during power outages.

Hopefully with the wind picking up overnight that didn’t push it up north more. Was looking allot better yesterday.
Will be hoping the dude from “The Lookout” has an early update this morning. That guy knows his shit.

My old trimmer lives in Manton. If they end up evacuating they’ll be headed to my property down here and I haven’t gotten a call so knock on wood.

Good luck to you guys up there. My heart goes out to everyone affected by this fire.

#ButteStrong
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Yeah my buddy's well is 750 feet deep! His neighbor drilled 1200 feet to a dry hole. Manton has been evacuated since Friday! Also Mineral.
 
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Aeroknow

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Phytoplankton said:
Yeah my buddy's well is 750 feet deep! His neighbor drilled 1200 feet to a dry hole. Manton has been evacuated since Friday! Also Mineral.
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Yeah, my buddy knows exactly what I went through with the Camp Fire but he’s still on his property in Manton waiting.
We had a close call out here about a month ago. Fire started about 5 miles away as the crow flies and then crazy wind was blowing it straight at my property. The evac warning immediately turned into a mando evac. I was getting shit together and here come a highway patrolman zipping down my country road way out in the sticks, comes up to my gate and was trying to punch in some numbers into my gate opener. 2 things: there’s no code he could come up with that would open it unless he knew my code and that part of the gate is down. The arm is detached from the gate. Lol.
I yelled out to him “we’re getting ready” and he gave me a nod and split. God bless his soul. We got a kick out of it but definitely appreciated it. They don’t fuck around anymore here in Butte county. It’s all hands on deck.
 
Aeroknow

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There’s supposed to be some stronger winds from the southwest this afternoon. Shitloads of heavy equipment/operators on standby in a lot near Chico Costco I just passed by.
All evac warnings for Paradise were just lifted so at least those people can stop stressing and can resume life with their “regular” PTSD
 
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