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August 30, 2009

Station Fire Satellite Imagery

 
Images from MODIS Rapid Response System, near real time subsets of the Station Fire.


Note the extreme smoke plume heading due north yesterday.
Please click the images to expand

Compare the current size of the Station Fire to the (now contained) 90,000 acre La Brea Fire burn to the west above Santa Barbara.

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Posted by: retired cap mike: 10:18 AM


Comments:
Mike: Under whose jurisdiction (or jurisdictions) is the Station fire?
# posted by Blogger Yakpate : August 31, 2009 11:20 AM
 
U.S. Forest Service with numerous agencies assisting. The fire is burning on Fed land. Mike Dietrich is the incident commander and heads a team primarily consisting of USFS lifers.
CalFire is running the show in Oak Glen because the fire is on State responsibility lands.
# posted by Blogger Mike : August 31, 2009 12:14 PM
 
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