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[MarkBC]

This may be a trivial effect of wildfire smoke...but it's kinda interesting:  Baseball players can't see well enough to play.

 

Bend Elks try to play through wildfire smoke

KTVZ TV

[craig333]

Now we have the river fire. Going to be tough one burning in a populated area near Colfax. The dixie fire continues to rage out of control. Might be a good thing for Smoke to be ready though it will have to burn through the moonlight fire burn to reach Susanville. Hard to believe its only the beginning of August

 

The river fire looks pretty ugly on the jonesridge cam.

[ski3pin]

Julie's knee rehab therapy was this afternoon. On the way home we stopped at the orchard on Union Ridge for peaches and apples. I stopped in my tracks exiting the car. The column from the River Fire was new and scary. No one at the orchard had noticed it yet. I guessed I-80 corridor above Auburn.

 

As Craig says, it is just the beginning of August.

[ski3pin]

Yes, both Jones Ridge and Wolf Mountain cameras have views of the fire. There are a lot of homes in the mountains in this area near I-80.

[craig333]

One report says the Dixie fire leveled Greenville. I hope that report isn't accurate.

[Lighthawk]

I was at work in Grass Valley, but my view is west and north, so I didn't notice anything until 4:15pm when I looked out the front, south-facing window.   Callie was with me today and heard me exclaim an expletive.   She's just turned nine and still comes to work most days with me.  

 

I sent text to my crew on a job off Hwy 174 in Peardale, near the source of the fire.  They had been monitoring the fire and were packing up their work trucks and the owner was packing to leave.   I got confirmation they had left.

 

 

Time to leave work!  The Tundra is now my daily driver, again.  The Hawk is at home on the Big Truck.

 

 

This was taken at 423pm from our hospital, overlooking Hwy 49 looking south.

 

 

The fire went from 10 acres to 100 acres, then 500 acres and finally 1400 acres.  They reported plumes of flame up to sixty feet.  It was breezy as I locked up at work.

 

SR left work after checking with her coworker and commissioner who both live nearby the Bear River, off Hwy 49.  Accidents had Hwy 49 stopped to a stand still.  Later tonight, scofflaws are driving thru barricades..

 

We both went through some evacuation checklists while large chunks of ash-fall landed on our decks, cars and garden.   There were 1-2" chunks of charred leaves from oaks and bayleaf falling with the general white ash, but nothing hot, thank goodness.  I tanked up the Hawk with fresh water. 

 

 

Bombers were running from the Grass Valley Air Attack Base until 745pm.  We can watch them as they 

prepare their last turn before landing from our deck.  Tonight they are running dozers and hand crews to establish a fire line in very steep terrain.  It's calmed down and temps are dropping.  God bless our firefighters.

Edited by Lighthawk, 05 August 2021 - 05:53 AM.

[Wandering Sagebrush]

“God bless our firefighters.”

 

 

Yes, indeed!

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Red Flag Warning

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Boise ID
234 PM MDT Wed Aug 4 2021

...LOW HUMIDITY AND GUSTY WIND EXPECTED ACROSS EXTREME
SOUTHEASTERN OREGON ON THURSDAY...

...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS REMAINING AREAS OF EASTERN
OREGON AND IDAHO MOUNTAINS ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...

.The incoming trough remains generally on track to impact the area
on Thursday and Thursday evening. Areas of southeastern Oregon can
expect a critical combination of gusty winds and low humidity
during the afternoon. Meanwhile, scattered thunderstorms will be
possible across the remainder of the warned area. Gusty winds of
40 to 50 mph could be possible with any storm development on
Thursday.

ORZ646-052200-
/O.UPG.KBOI.FW.A.0007.210805T1800Z-210806T0600Z/
/O.NEW.KBOI.FW.W.0011.210805T1800Z-210806T0600Z/
Baker Valley-
134 PM PDT Wed Aug 4 2021

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 11 PM PDT THURSDAY
FOR...LIGHTNING FOR BAKER VALLEY...WHICH IS FIRE WEATHER ZONE
646...

The National Weather Service in Boise has issued a Red Flag
Warning, which is in effect from 11 AM to 11 PM PDT Thursday. The
Fire Weather Watch is no longer in effect.

* THUNDERSTORMS...Scattered thunderstorms expected for the across
the area for Thursday afternoon and evening. Storms could
produce brief periods of heavy rain, abundant lightning, and
gusty and erratic winds.

* OUTFLOW WINDS...Thunderstorms may produce outflow winds of 40 to
50 mph.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions
are either occurring now, or will occur shortly.
 

[craig333]

Unfortunately the news out of Greenville is confirmed. Not good

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Stay safe Andy. Our firefighters are doing an impossible job out there.

Thanks to all.

Frank