Yosemite National Park Fire Managers have rescheduled a prescribed fire in the Bishop Creek area for early May. The prescribed fire, originally scheduled for the end of April, is postponed because of forecasted rain in the area. Yosemite is expecting up to one inch of rain throughout the park. Ignition …
Read More »Campers Injured In Creek Fire Sue Madera County For Damages
A year after the Creek Fire ignited in the Sierra Nevada, Madera County is facing a lawsuit related to injuries sustained by campers who became trapped by the fire in the backcountry. The 11 plaintiffs on the lawsuit suffered burns and other injuries while camping near Mammoth Pool Reservoir when …
Read More »Storytelling Project Collects Accounts Of Devastating Creek Fire
In the wake of the damage that last year’s Creek Fire brought to the Central Sierra, an effort is underway to keep the fire from claiming yet another casualty, that of memory. The Creek Fire Storytelling Project is a campaign by the Central Sierra Resiliency Fund to document and preserve …
Read More »‘It’s Just Hard To Take’ – Kerman Beekeeper Loses Hundreds Of Hives In Creek Fire
A cup of coffee in one hand, David Blair rolls up the garage door to his warehouse and points out a few remaining 55-gallon barrels filled with honey. “We send it off to Sue Bee as soon as we can. We don’t really store it here,” says the third generation …
Read More »Creek Fire’s ‘Fire-Breathing’ Cloud To Aid Research On Wildfires And Climate
In the early days of the Creek Fire, photographs went viral of what looked like a mushroom cloud billowing into the atmosphere over the blaze . It’s no wonder that type of cloud, known as pyrocumulonimbus, was dubbed by a NASA writer as “ the fire-breathing dragon of clouds ”: …
Read More »‘God Bless You, Heidi’ – Family Evacuated In Creek Fire Overwhelmed By Support
People across the San Joaquin Valley have been rallying to assist evacuees from the Creek Fire. For one family, the gift of a tent led to a change in outlook. When Matthew Warner and his family were evacuated from their home in Tollhouse last week, they weren’t planning on camping, …
Read More »Ordered To Leave Their Homes, Creek Fire Evacuees Decide What Goes With Them
More than 30,000 people in Fresno County have had to leave their homes due to the Creek Fire. Sharon Souza is one of them. She left Tollhouse Tuesday morning, but spent the weekend deciding what items would stay and what would go. She says she tried to be practical rather …
Read More »Sierra Unified Suspending Distance Learning Amidst Creek Fire
Sierra Unified School District in the Fresno County foothills is suspending online instruction for the week due to the Creek Fire burning in the Sierra National Forest. Superintendent Alan Harris estimates up to 75 percent of district staff and students are being evacuated or have already been displaced by the …
Read More »Mill Creek 1 Fire (Humboldt County) Started 8/16/2018, updated 8/16/2018
Horse Creek Fire (Tulare County) Started 7/19/2018, updated 8/09/2018
Creek Fire (Alameda County) Started 8/04/2018, updated 8/05/2018
Creek Fire (San Bernardino County) Started 6/30/2018, updated 7/02/2018
Creek Fire (Shasta County)
Creek Fire: more info… Updated: June 26, 2018 9:38 am County: San Luis Obispo County Location: Suey Creek Road & Crystal Springs, east of Nipomo Acres Burned – Containment: 2.8 acres – 100% contained
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