Bull Fire, Sequoia National Forest
Guess fire season in the Sierra Nevada has arrived, just found another fire burning in the Southern Sierra Nevada. The Bull Fire is burning near Kernville, CA. It’s current size is 4200 acres with zero percent containment on it. 550 firefighters are on the fire. There are currently evacuations on Burma Rd in Kernville and the community of Riverkern with 1200 structure being threatened.
For the latest info on this fire, visit it’s page on the Inciweb site: Bull Fire on Inciweb
The smoke plume shows clearly on this afternoon’s weather satellite (look toward the southeast corner of Kern County): http://sat.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/showsat.php?wfo=hnx&area=west&type=vis&size=1
You can also see the smoke on the Kern River webcam: http://www.wunderground.com/webcams/Roberta/1/show.html
You can also see the smoke well from the Tobias Peak #1 webcam (on the Sierra Wildland Fire Webcam site, plus a pall of smoke from other fire lookout webcams on that site. Here’s hoping this fire is put out soon.
You can see it pretty good on this view too: http://ge.ssec.wisc.edu/modis-today/index.php?satellite=t1&product=true_color&date=2010_07_27_208&overlay_sector=false&overlay_state=true&overlay_coastline=true§or=USA5&resolution=1000m
It’s near the top in the center. If you look at the 250m image you can really see it well.