Showing posts with label Alder Lake Fire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alder Lake Fire. Show all posts
Monday, October 19, 2015

Burning At Both Ends

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Day 6: Finally! Inciweb has not updated their website since September 9, but today when I visited Lillie Dale Road, I found on display a ...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Kicking Up Again - Alder Lake Fire

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Day 345: As predicted, the Alder Lake Fire seems to be kicking up again on both ends, most spectacularly on the east end where it appears...
Friday, September 18, 2015

Alder Lake Fire At 8 Weeks

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Day 340: The Alder Lake Fire began with a lightning strike on July 26th at approximately 5 PM. The time is known because lightning activi...
Sunday, September 6, 2015

Fire Status

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Click to enlarge panorama Day 328: A number of people have asked me for a status report on the Alder Lake Fire, given that we've ha...
Monday, August 31, 2015

Wrongside Up Larry

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Day 322: Okay, okay...I admit it. I'm being unduly hard on Wrongside Up Larry. In fact, I even assigned him to the wrong agency. He r...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

Moving Up Stahl

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Day 321, Fire Update: Wrongside Up Larry from DNR was back today, fortunately accompanied by David, a more communicative representative o...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

Wind Complications

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Day 320: The high winds the firefighters were hoping to avoid have arrived. I drove through flying leaves and down roads littered with ...
Friday, August 28, 2015

Ten Percent Containment

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Day 319: Today's update from InciWeb shows the Alder Lake Fire at 10% containment. What exactly does that mean? Does it mean they ha...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Better Communications

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Day 318: Larry, the DNR mouthpiece mentioned in yesterday's post, was replaced today by Doug (DNR) and Mark (USFS), a wisecracking p...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Buprestis Aurulenta, Golden Buprestid

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Day 317: First an update on the Alder Lake Fire...Christian, the young firefighter who has been my point of contact for the last several...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

183 Acres, Moving East And Up

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Day 316: The Alder Lake Fire is now at 183 acres and spreading to the east and up the slopes of Stahl Mtn., a 3716' peak to the south...
Monday, August 24, 2015

Not Good At All

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Day 315: Let's start the day off with a bang...literally. At 7:33 AM, I heard a loud growling rumble which I initially thought was a...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

"We're Getting Our Butts Kicked Up There"

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Day 314: "We're getting our butts kicked up there." The young crewman taking a break after nine straight days on the Alder...
Saturday, August 22, 2015

Not Good News

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Day 313: I have only the evidence before my eyes to convince me that there is no good news regarding the Alder Lake Fire. The Forest Ser...
Friday, August 21, 2015

60 Acres And Growing

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Day 312: Overnight, the Alder Lake Fire increased in size to sixty acres, spreading to the southeast. Today as I stood on the shore of th...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Extreme Danger

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Day 311: Tonight, the Alder Lake Fire continues in its ninth day of burning. To my eye and to the eye of my next-door neighbor, it appear...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Alder Lake Fire

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Day 310: The Alder Lake Fire started with a lightning strike on Tuesday, August 11, and continues to burn tonight, involving approximate...