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[bushcraftandprepping]

We had another fire in my area yesterday while I was at work. What I thought was a couple miles from my house was as close as four blocks and ash coming down like snow flurries. If you live in an area prone to forest fires, earthquakes, tornados, flooding or other disasters make sure to have a plan. If you hike or camp in areas prone to fires, have a plan to get out or a place to hunker down that isn’t prone to fires or already burnt from a previous fire since it works as a natural fire break. After fires, be aware of rain as the areas become prone to flooding. I keep frozen water bottles in the freezer in case we suffer a power outage to keep it cold and reduce mildew growth since the ice is contained. Have a good weekend everyone and take care! I’ll be watering the yard, trees and house. #ranchfire #calfire #california #azusa #azusacanyon #sangabrielmountains #sangabrielvalley #sangabrielriver #southerncalifornia #forestfire #shtf #angelesmountains #hiking #camping #naturaldisaster #bushcraftandprepping #emergencypreparedness #prepper #survival #survivalist https://www.instagram.com/p/CD4ueeJpO4m/?igshid=tfv1j2dqa43i

[reneebarbee7]

The sky was #glowing last night. A mixture of #monsoonclouds and smoke from the #ranchfire - although colorful the air is unhealthy to breathe. 🌞⛅☁️🌄 (at Pomona, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CD-pDs6hgzb/?igshid=1rfcnjh7w7ooc

[madschnell626]

#wildfireseason #ranchfire #gigantic @azusacity View from El Segundo to Downtown and San Gabriel. https://www.instagram.com/p/CD9vPGfp2CJ/?igshid=1uyp0jse2xdlc

[drtruitt]

Sending so much love and support to everyone being impacted by the fires. It’s been snowing ash on our house off and on since Thursday. I took this photo tonight just after sunset. Beyond grateful for our @losangelesfiredepartment @pasadena_firefighters @coronafiredept @monrovia_fire_rescue and @azusafiredepartment hero’s for taking such amazing care of our state, city, and residents! ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ #ranchfire (at Pasadena, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CD8ISltjj6Y/?igshid=1mdkmeb186sls

[realdjgonzales]

Not fog. That's smoke from #lakefire & #ranchfire. Unhealthy air quality. Quelle surprise. #socalliving #brushfires #norain https://www.instagram.com/p/CD4k47UJMLd/?igshid=qfrv91igiwwd

[nicolinibambini]

it’s officially fire season—a view of the Ranch Fire burning in Azusa in Angeles National Forest this evening. Evacuations are underway and several roads are closed in the mountains with only emergency vehicles allowed. link to @patch breaking news story in my bio. #ranchfire #azusa #santamonica #venice #dogtown #tower28 (at Santa Monica Beach Lifeguard Tower 28) https://www.instagram.com/p/CD2sFSlhC4E/?igshid=un3qc803a50r

[robertnoriega]

#walkingviews #bluecloudysky #smokeplume #hotassday #ranchfire #skylinefire #lakefire #prayingforthefamilies #staysafe #arrowhead #sanbernardino #california (at San Bernardino, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CD2hyHshHkf/?igshid=f71n8h41wagd

[pgewivesibew1245-blog]

#Repost @bayareafirefighter ・・・ @csfafire What an amazing infographic map from @popsci, shows you what California Firefighters have been up against. “California is currently experiencing its largest fire ever.” If it feels like you’ve heard this story before, that’s because you probably have. The map above, created using @usgs data, shows how much of the state has been on fire over the last 5 years. Between January and August of 2017, nearly 350 square miles burned. This year, it’s nearly 1,000 square miles — already the worst fire season since 2008, and we’re barely at its peak. 13 of California’s 20 hottest fires on record have burned since 2000. Right now there are 18 wildfires burning, and 14,000 firefighters attempting to control them. “California is built to burn,” Stephen Payne, a fire historian and professor at @arizonastateuniversity’s School of Life Sciences, told Popular Science, “and burn explosively.” #WildlandFire #california #firefighters #tubbsfire #carrfire #ranchfire #riverfire #caloes #mutualaid #newnormal #thenewnorm #holyfire #pgewives #ibew1245 #weloveourhardworkingguys #fireseason2018 #firerestoration #beenalong5years

[michealbui]

Good evening to wherever you are around the world, around the clock. Timelapse of the #MendocinoComplex and #RanchFire https://www.instagram.com/p/BmHl-fIHZZBlp3fTGBwsyPNe9BKZMLxWzqmkfA0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1vqrf1ujh9h96

[chief-miller]

@mobones1 - California wildfire updates- Tuesday AM 9/18/18 - CAL FIRE and Inciweb #MendocinoComplex #RanchFire 459,123 acres 98% contained #DonnellFire Stanislaus NF 36,450 acres 90% contained #LyonsFire Sierra NF 13,347 acres 85% contained #NatchezFire Ca/Or border 33,263 acres 84% contained #DeltaFire Shasta Trinity NF - Shasta County- 60,277 acres 81% contained #ForkFire LA County (near Azusa) 166 acres 98% contained #cafire #calfire #caltrans #wildfire #shastacounty #shastastrong #firefightingaircraft #nikond500 #norcalfireweather . ⠀⠀💥FOLLOW @CHIEF_MILLER💥 Use #chiefmiller in your post. WWW.CHIEFMILLERAPPAREL.COM . Facebook- chiefmiller1 Twitter - chief_miller YouTube- chief miller Snapchat- chief_miller . . ⚠️TAG A FRIEND WHO NEEDS TO SEE THIS ⚠️ Please be sure to Like and Comment https://ift.tt/2Oz0rzj

[ethelbertpaul444-blog]

Your Tweets Can Help Map the Spread of Wildfire Smoke

This story primarily appeared on High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At the end of July, Twitter user Alicia Santana posted a picture of a follower sitting in a plastic folding chair in his yard. He’s inspecting away from the camera, towards a horrible, orange cloud of fume crowding the sky beyond a wire barricade. “My dad not wanting to leave his house, ” Santana wrote, intent it with #MendocinoComplexFire. As wildfires spark, parts of the internet light with them. The #CarrFire, #FergusonFire, #RanchFire and other hashtags spread immediately this summer on Twitter. If past seasons are any manifestation, “theres been” thousands of others tweets like this, and they will continue as smoke–the insidious second motion of wildfires–spreads across the West. They can also be used for data. In a recently published subject, US Forest Service researchers Sonya Sachdeva and Sarah McCaffrey found that, when analyzed in large numbers, tweets about wildfires can accurately simulate the action inhaled moves. In their study, issued by the International Conference on Social Media& Society, Sachdeva and McCaffrey analyzed closely connected to 39,000 tweets affixed between May and September 2015 in California. They divested the tweets to expose their core topics: smoke in the air, precipitated ash, haziness, odor. By tagging the tweets with the spot in which they were announced, the researchers procreated a verbatim planned: a terrain of fervor based on the people who experienced it. Their modeling testified accurate when is comparable to figures from aura excellence monitors. Their results show that what we write online could crowd the cracks that traditional data collection leave behind. While still nascent, applying social media to analyse environmental affairs is a changing subject. Images from Flickr can help researchers understand tourism rates in natural spheres, and social media often acts as a crucial tool in disaster relief. “Social media is everywhere people are, ” Sachdeva said. “Physical monitors of any kind, by virtue of them being physical, can’t do that.” The 2015 wildfire season, including the Rough and Butte barrages, burned nearly 900,000 acres in California alone. The smoke-related tweets Sachdeva and McCaffrey used indicate the air pollution’s wide jolt. “Abandoned my 2015 #johnmuirtrail attempt … due to Rough Fire smoke. Poor visibility and headache the criminal, ” one Twitter user wrote. Another simply spoken: “ #airquality #cantbreathe #roughfire #California. ” If someone # cantbreathe due to smoke, they’re breath big molecules known as as PM 2.5 , which measure under five percentage the width of human fuzz. The specks can lodge into the lung material and bloodstream and generate health publications, particularly for parties with respiratory concerns, pregnant women, and children. In extreme states, though, the long-term outcomes can impact others. During the summer of 2017, Montana determined smoke cases so dense that they maxed out breath excellence monitoring faculty. Dan Inouye organizes the Washoe County air quality management district in Nevada, dwelling to Reno, which has seven breeze caliber monitors. Smoke is rolling downwind from California and into the county. Inouye’s sees ought to have spraying for weeks, and the air caliber index has registered unhealthy contamination stages. “As long as the fuels are active, there’s ever that chance that smoke’s going to come our action, ” he said. Near municipalities like Reno, air pollution monitoring terminals are abundant. But they’re absent in many rural areas like primary Nevada, leaving small communities with less information about the air they breath. Exploiting alternative simulate techniques, such as Twitter, were gonna help round out those blank spots. How tweeters’ locale changed people’s ordeal of wildfires too factored into Sachdeva and McCaffrey’s research. By analyzing specific topics beings tweeted about, they could dig into what parties helped about based on distance from the flames. The farther away the tweet from the fuel, the more beings were interested in concrete report: how the flame started, say, or what NASA images demonstrated. The closer the tweets got to the fires, the more parties asked for and offered facilitate. Rather than fleeing, McCaffrey learned, victims often stay put–“people are actually going into the fire.” McCaffrey, who has examined responses to wildfires for 25 years, watches them as a high-stakes–and revealing–event in the human-nature rapport. “There’s that narrative that the person or persons in the immediate direction are going to freak out, ” McCaffrey said, “but the tweets are a clear demonstration that what beings are genuinely “ve been thinking about” is what we should do and how people want to help each other.” Related Video Science This New Satellite Will Help Track Extreme Weather in the West NOAA’s latest GOES satellite will help researchers learn, track, and prophesy whirlwinds, volleys, floodlights, and other brave systems. Read more: https :// www.wired.com/ legend/ twitter-wildfire-model / http://dailybuzznetwork.com/index.php/2018/09/22/your-tweets-can-help-map-the-spread-of-wildfire-smoke/

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UPPER LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Just a month into the budget year, the state has already spent more than one-quarter of its annual fire budget, at least $125 million, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman Mike Mohler said Wednesday.

Following years of drought and a summer of record-breaking heat, immense tracts of forests, chaparral and grasslands have become tinder that allows even a small spark to explode into a devouring blaze, authorities said.

“We’re being surprised. Every year is teaching the fire authorities new lessons,” Gov. Jerry Brown said at a news conference. “We’re in uncharted territory.”

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The River Fire has burned over 33,000 acres.

More than 13,000 firefighters are battling fires with the help of crews from as far away as Florida but Brown repeated predictions from fire officials that California can expect a future of devastating fires, in part because of the changing climate.

“People are doing everything they can, but nature is very powerful and we’re not on the side of nature,” Brown said.

The largest blaze burned in the Redding area, in Shasta County north of Sacramento. Six people, including two firefighters, have died and the fire has destroyed 1,058 homes and nearly 500 other buildings, including barns and warehouses, making it the sixth most destructive wildfire in California history, state fire officials said.

Tens of thousands of people remain under evacuation orders.

However, authorities who had feared there might be more casualties reported Wednesday that all those who had been reported missing had been located.

The fire, which is nearly twice the size of Sacramento, was only 35 percent contained after more than a week.

“Unstable conditions, shifting winds, steep terrain, and dry fuels continue to challenge firefighters,” a state fire update warned Wednesday evening, noting that 35-mph wind gusts were expected on ridge tops that could whip up the flames.

Update so far. #RiverFire has scorched 33,398 acres and is 38% contained, while the #RanchFire has scorched 61,514 acres and is only 15% contained. #wildfires #MendocinoComplex https://t.co/LrGx49JlBb pic.twitter.com/bFwqp2yDE8

— Marcus Yam 火 (@yamphoto) August 2, 2018

Meanwhile, at least three new fires erupted Wednesday in the Sierra Nevada region, including a blaze in Placer County that had consumed 1 1/2 square miles (of land.

North and east of San Francisco, two wildfires that began Tuesday near the communities of Covelo and Yuba City continued to burn through grass, brush and timberlands. The fire near Covelo prompted evacuation orders for about 60 homes in the farming and ranching area on the edge of the Mendocino National Forest.

Twin fires also burned in Mendocino and Lake counties. They burned 14 homes and threatened 12,000 more.

A 100-square mile fire near Yosemite National Park prompted evacuation orders Wednesday for the community of Wawona inside the park, which has fewer than 200 residents. Yosemite Valley and other areas of the park have been closed to tourists since July 25 because of heavy smoke from the fire, which has burned nearly 64,000 acres (258 square kilometers) and is only 39 percent contained.

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[realdjgonzales]

No joke. There's a lot of fuel for the fire to burn through. #ranchfire #azusa #foothills https://www.instagram.com/p/CD2hLxYpO6W/?igshid=qz1r5hoqmykd

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Space photos show fires tormenting bone-dry California

Triple-digit temperatures and parched land have left much of California's expansive forests vulnerable to any spark or flame. The Carr Fire, which started on July 23 after a vehicle caught fire, has spread to nearly 100,000 acres as of July 30. From hundreds of miles above, satellite images show a state besieged by an imposing plume of smoke, with a vast part of the region blanketed in a thick, brown haze.  SEE ALSO: Redding newspaper lost power amid extreme fire, but still found a way to print the news Vegetation in the drought-ridden terrain around the City of Redding, where the Carr Fire has prompted thousands to flee and has taken at least six lives, is now exceptionally dry.  NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of the California fire's smoke spreading to Utah.Image: NASAIn fact, it's likely approaching either near-record or record dryness levels in Northern California, said Brenda Belongie, lead meteorologist of the U.S. Forest Service's Predictive Services in Northern California, who works and lives in Redding. NOAA's #GOES17 satellite saw smoke from the #wildfires in northern #California late yesterday, note the high white clouds blowing over the brown-colored smoke beneath. This week a dangerous heatwave with triple digit temps is expected to exacerbate the situation. pic.twitter.com/NhroaD3RuB — NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) July 30, 2018 While any fire is the result of a confluence of weather events — notably gusty winds, human carelessness, and lack of rain — California's forests have been subjected to both heat waves and sustained periods of notably hot temperatures, both of which are enhanced by climate change.  Check out this airplane view of the #CarrFire. https://t.co/eXPNS1wnh8 — NWS Sacramento (@NWSSacramento) July 27, 2018 "In California, persistent heat and dryness increased fire danger," wrote the U.S. Drought Monitor on July 24, the day after the Carr fire began.  In particular, the area around Redding is experiencing conditions worse than "abnormally dry," and is now listed as experiencing "moderate drought."  As temperatures heat up this afternoon across #NorCal, we're seeing an increase in fire activity. Here's the latest #GOES16 Fire Temperature product #CarrFire #RiverFire #RanchFire #MendocinoComplex #cawx pic.twitter.com/TaikChKmSo — NWS Sacramento (@NWSSacramento) July 29, 2018 Much of the entire heat-stricken Northern Hemisphere has recently experienced record heat waves or above-average summer temperatures.  Redding could be experiencing its warmest July on record, according to KRCR News meteorologist Rob Elvington. Northern Hemisphere temperature anomalies during summertime (land-only)...[1900-2017 June/July/August 2-m T data from @BerkeleyEarth] pic.twitter.com/rkmLUwJPQS — Zack Labe (@ZLabe) July 29, 2018 Redding's scorching 2018 summer isn't an anomaly. Each of the city's last June-July average temperatures for the last five years have been among the five hottest on record, noted Elvington. These conditions have helped further dry out the land and spawn a fire that leapt over the Sacramento River last week. Those conditions also stoked a towering vortex that propelled the Carr Fire's own violent weather system. "This is a large and dangerous plume dominated fire in which spreading is not driven by the wind, but rather the fire itself," the National Weather Service wrote over the weekend. Smoke plume is now breaking through the nocturnal inversion. Fire activity will likely increasing with more venting. #CarrFire pic.twitter.com/rqr1gSqsBG — Rob Elvington (@RobElvington) July 27, 2018 During the day, satellite images have picked up the fire's towering plume, which exploded to over 20,000 feet in around 40 minutes. Here is another radar rendering of the #CarrFire plume during the destructive vortex. The plume undergoes rapid vertical development, growing from 6 to 12 km (19->39Kft) in 40 min. Thats a lot of stretching and a possible explanation for vortex intensification. #CAwx #CAfire pic.twitter.com/1CTHAvl6Di — Neil Lareau (@nplareau) July 29, 2018 The Carr Fire can also be seen easily from space at night, where it appears as bright as the Golden State's sprawling cities. The #SuomiNPP satellite captured this image of smoke from the #California wildfires this morning - including the large #FergusonFire, which has grown to 43,000 acres and closed parts of #Yosemite National Park. pic.twitter.com/wCfCkUTO4b — NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) July 26, 2018 Man the #CarrFire is scary. New infrared imagery now that GOES-16 is back up. #CAfire pic.twitter.com/Mw4IQ7EVYQ — Rob Elvington (@RobElvington) July 27, 2018 California's dramatic 2018 fire season, which forced a smoke-filled Yosemite National Park to close its iconic valley and brought flames back to the region's wine country, follows the state's harrowing 2017 season — its worst fire season on record. WATCH: Ever wonder how the universe might end?

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Triple-digit temperatures and parched land have left much of California's expansive forests vulnerable to any spark or flame. The Carr Fire, which started on July 23 after a vehicle caught fire, has spread to nearly 100,000 acres as of July 30. From hundreds of miles above, satellite images show a state besieged by an imposing plume of smoke, with a vast part of the region blanketed in a thick, brown haze.  SEE ALSO: Redding newspaper lost power amid extreme fire, but still found a way to print the news Vegetation in the drought-ridden terrain around the City of Redding, where the Carr Fire has prompted thousands to flee and has taken at least six lives, is now exceptionally dry.  NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of the California fire's smoke spreading to Utah.Image: NASAIn fact, it's likely approaching either near-record or record dryness levels in Northern California, said Brenda Belongie, lead meteorologist of the U.S. Forest Service's Predictive Services in Northern California, who works and lives in Redding. NOAA's #GOES17 satellite saw smoke from the #wildfires in northern #California late yesterday, note the high white clouds blowing over the brown-colored smoke beneath. This week a dangerous heatwave with triple digit temps is expected to exacerbate the situation. pic.twitter.com/NhroaD3RuB — NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) July 30, 2018 While any fire is the result of a confluence of weather events — notably gusty winds, human carelessness, and lack of rain — California's forests have been subjected to both heat waves and sustained periods of notably hot temperatures, both of which are enhanced by climate change.  Check out this airplane view of the #CarrFire. https://t.co/eXPNS1wnh8 — NWS Sacramento (@NWSSacramento) July 27, 2018 "In California, persistent heat and dryness increased fire danger," wrote the U.S. Drought Monitor on July 24, the day after the Carr fire began.  In particular, the area around Redding is experiencing conditions worse than "abnormally dry," and is now listed as experiencing "moderate drought."  As temperatures heat up this afternoon across #NorCal, we're seeing an increase in fire activity. Here's the latest #GOES16 Fire Temperature product #CarrFire #RiverFire #RanchFire #MendocinoComplex #cawx pic.twitter.com/TaikChKmSo — NWS Sacramento (@NWSSacramento) July 29, 2018 Much of the entire heat-stricken Northern Hemisphere has recently experienced record heat waves or above-average summer temperatures.  Redding could be experiencing its warmest July on record, according to KRCR News meteorologist Rob Elvington. Northern Hemisphere temperature anomalies during summertime (land-only)...[1900-2017 June/July/August 2-m T data from @BerkeleyEarth] pic.twitter.com/rkmLUwJPQS — Zack Labe (@ZLabe) July 29, 2018 Redding's scorching 2018 summer isn't an anomaly. Each of the city's last June-July average temperatures for the last five years have been among the five hottest on record, noted Elvington. These conditions have helped further dry out the land and spawn a fire that leapt over the Sacramento River last week. Those conditions also stoked a towering vortex that propelled the Carr Fire's own violent weather system. "This is a large and dangerous plume dominated fire in which spreading is not driven by the wind, but rather the fire itself," the National Weather Service wrote over the weekend. Smoke plume is now breaking through the nocturnal inversion. Fire activity will likely increasing with more venting. #CarrFire pic.twitter.com/rqr1gSqsBG — Rob Elvington (@RobElvington) July 27, 2018 During the day, satellite images have picked up the fire's towering plume, which exploded to over 20,000 feet in around 40 minutes. Here is another radar rendering of the #CarrFire plume during the destructive vortex. The plume undergoes rapid vertical development, growing from 6 to 12 km (19->39Kft) in 40 min. Thats a lot of stretching and a possible explanation for vortex intensification. #CAwx #CAfire pic.twitter.com/1CTHAvl6Di — Neil Lareau (@nplareau) July 29, 2018 The Carr Fire can also be seen easily from space at night, where it appears as bright as the Golden State's sprawling cities. The #SuomiNPP satellite captured this image of smoke from the #California wildfires this morning - including the large #FergusonFire, which has grown to 43,000 acres and closed parts of #Yosemite National Park. pic.twitter.com/wCfCkUTO4b — NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) July 26, 2018 Man the #CarrFire is scary. New infrared imagery now that GOES-16 is back up. #CAfire pic.twitter.com/Mw4IQ7EVYQ — Rob Elvington (@RobElvington) July 27, 2018 California's dramatic 2018 fire season, which forced a smoke-filled Yosemite National Park to close its iconic valley and brought flames back to the region's wine country, follows the state's harrowing 2017 season — its worst fire season on record. WATCH: Ever wonder how the universe might end?

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