Last evening I sent my pictures of the Inyo Complex Fire to Rick Masters. He’s the person who put up the Holding on to Independence site I told you about in the last post. He emailed me back today and is planning on using the pictures on the site. He also said that they are trying to put together a timeline for the fire as it threatened the Mt Whitney Fish Hatchery and the nine firefighters that were in danger there. He said that my pictures of the hatchery will be a big help in creating the timeline.  I’m glad I can help in this.

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Here is a link to a photo journal of the Inyo Complex Fire. It has many images with descriptions of what the pictures are. There are also four video clips of the fire. This is an amazing collection of images that shows the awesome power of this fire.

Holding on to Independence

If you watch video clip 3 and 4 and look at the photo below it you will see a fire tornado, or what I was calling a smoke devil. When we were stopped on the highway we saw many of these racing across the base of the mountains. The biggest one we saw was easily over 100 yards wide and was moving very fast from south to north. It was pretty awesome and very scary.

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Boy, it seems like all I talk about anymore are fires. I just noticed smoke coming over the crest. At first I though it might be from down in Big Pine because the wind is blowing pretty hard today. I thought they may have had a blow up down there so I took a drive down to see and it’s not coming from there. It looks like it’s coming from the west side of the mountains in the Kings Canyon National Park area. The smoke is coming over Bishop Pass and makes it look like the fire is up Bishop Creek, but I’m positive that’s it’s not up Bishop Creek. I don’t have any news on it yet. The smoke seems to have thinned out since I first saw it 45 minutes ago so let’s hope it isn’t anything to serious. I will keep an eye and ear open for any info though.

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There is a lot of news on the InciWeb site about the Antelope Complex, including a full closure of the Plumas National Forest. So instead of pasting it all on here I’m just going to give you the link to it.

Info on Antelope Complex Fire

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Some areas within the fire area have been reopened. Here is the latest from InciWeb on the areas that are still closed.

Today the Inyo National Forest re-opened roads, campgrounds and trailheads that were impacted by the fire. Areas that are still closed include the Oak Creek Canyon area including Oak Creek Canyon Road, Sawmill Pass and Baxter Pass trailheads and the Black Rock and Mt. Whitney Fish Hatcheries.

The fire is now %80 contained and full containment is expected tomorrow. The total acres burned are 35,176 making the Inyo Complex the largest fire so far this season in California.

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