This item just posted on the Kern County FD Facebook page:
"[Bull Fire] As of 10:00 P.M. the fire is at 4200 acres. Crews battled hard to save structures in the Burma Rd area, however the fire destroyed 6 residences in Riverkern. Firefighters continue to provide structure protection."
Per the Hotlist, the fire has calmed down with the evening atmospheric changes but is still fairly active after a day of some fairly extreme fire behavior.
Kimmer
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Kim Noyes <kimnoyes@gmail.com> wrote:
This per the Kern County FD on their Facebook page at 6:41 PM:
"Bull Fire, 3 miles north of Kernville on Mountain Rd 99. 2000 acres burned, 500 personnel on scene. 7 helicopters, 7 air tankers providing air support."
The Hotlist is now reporting 3,000 acres on this fire.
I'm now having more success with the Sierra Fire Cams here and thus they are not turned off for the night after all:
http://www.mtdiablocam.com/sierralookouts.htm
KimmerOn Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Kim Noyes <kimnoyes@gmail.com> wrote:
This per Kern County FD on their Facebook page:"Bull Fire- At this time we are asking residents in the Riverkern community and residents on Burma Road to evacuate. An evacuation center is being set up at the Senior Center at 6409 Lake Isabella Blvd. We will update as more information is available."
Source: http://www.facebook.com/kerncountyfire?ref=mf
Per the Hotlist this is now 1,500 acres with unknown number of structures on fire, power out throughout a wholly evacuated Riverkern and Kernville residents face mandatory evacs as well. Resources streaming in from all over South Ops.
The Sierra Fire Cams are now down for the night unfortunately as they only run during the day and seem to go to bed early at that.
KimmerOn Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Kim Noyes <kimnoyes@gmail.com> wrote:
The fire has jumped the Kern River, moved into Tulare County, burned all around Riverkern, burned structures, forced complete evacuation of Riverkern and part of Kernville, is up to 1,000 acres and is still burning out of control all per the Hotlist.
http://wildlandfire.com/hotlist/showthread.php?t=14865&page=1
The Bakersfield Californian website sure is hokey these days and good luck getting any timely news updates on breaking stories
KimmerOn Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Kim Noyes <kimnoyes@gmail.com> wrote:
The convection column on this thing is starting to do the barber pole configuration as it intensifies and develops better structure.
Big pyrocumulous forming per the webcam:
http://sierrafire.cr.usgs.gov/camHist/viewer09.pl?camera=breckenridge_2&lastFrame=true
Listen to the firefight here: http://216.66.69.100:3072/listen.pls
Per the Hotlist evacs of Kernville may be necessary and this thing is escaping in a big way.
Many ground and air resources are being called in.
KimmerOn Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Kim Noyes <kimnoyes@gmail.com> wrote:
The Bull Incident is now producing pyrocumulous clouds atop the convection column and has moved into view of a fourth webcam:
http://sierrafire.cr.usgs.gov/camHist/viewer09.pl?camera=breckenridge_3&lastFrame=true
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Kim Noyes <kimnoyes@gmail.com> wrote:The Bull Incident began a short time ago and is really running now:
Follow it on the Hotlist here: http://wildlandfire.com/hotlist/showthread.php?t=14865
Monitor it visually on these webcams:
http://sierrafire.cr.usgs.gov/camHist/viewer09.pl?camera=tobias_peak_1&lastFrame=true
http://sierrafire.cr.usgs.gov/camHist/viewer09.pl?camera=sherman_peak_5&lastFrame=true
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