That area has not burned since 1961, there is big fuel break on deadwood mountain that runs close to coarsegold.
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Define big if you don’t mind?
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2400 acres based on Google earth estimate.
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That’s good size depending on length and width. Your insight is strong so I’ll buy that if you say it might slow it down then it will.
Its real wide and extends along highway 41 as a shaded fuel break and was planned on going down by the casino. How much has been maintained is a bit of a guess.
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Anyone know where the main fire is and which way it is likely headed. Hopefully the wind dies down after sundown.
Was at a friends house swimming and saw T82, T83 and Copter 404 flying south. Could see the header from Hwy-108 and S. Washington in Sonora. At 15:47 my kid text me and said he’s headed to MMU to a fire. Where am I going with this. Saw Slasher post on where the fire is…Thanks for the heads up BrushSlasher. Hell yes it’s important to pass this down on a going fire in the same area as the Harlow. That was the Gold Standard for rate of spread for many a year up and down the front county from Tulare to Placer. FYI…text my kid about the Fire History in that area…Like anywhere else that has had fire fatalities and critical rates of spread…This would be the year to freaking know about it.
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2500 acres-0% contained
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Even vehicles during that time couldn’t out run the Harlow fire. I still remember my old cap telling about that fire. SITUATIONAL AWARENESS!! look out for eacother. Be safe out there.
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looking at that pic is this going up the chowchilla river drainage toward Metcalf Gap??
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Some things don’t change. We are still struggling to get the word out 60 years later…
On July 6th, four days before the Harlow, a public meeting was called by Jack Owens, the chief of the Oakhurst Volunteer Fire Department, at the Hilltop Bowling Alley. Nearly 50 mountain residents gathered to hear a plea from Owens, Robert Voss, a fire prevention specialist from Fresno, and Stanley Hartwell, the Oakhurst Chamber of Commerce president, to fireproof their homes and outbuildings.
“We’ve been knocking on doors for more than a year, trying to impress upon people the necessity of removing the grass and brush from around their homes,” Owens is quoted as saying.
Many of the homes were shaded by oak trees, which grew over roofs and against walls. The trees became flaming pyres, and touched off many of those structures lost in the Harlow.
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Still moving south to southeast at this point, hope it doesn’t head that way.
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XSJ4175C forming up for immediate need STEN.
The fire itself is/was actually moving more towards a south east direction, almost parallel to Potter ridge. Then the prevailing winds from the south were pushing only the smoke over the low spot before/north of Deadwood Peak in almost a north east direction. As a result it formed a 90 degree wind shift which made for an interesting smoke picture. The north push is WIND only, the fire is not physically progressing that way. The post is about wind vectoring and not the fire. I don’t want to confuse or alarm anyone!
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That is a great piece of history, grateful you shared it. And watch out for the guy/gal who says history doesn’t matter, that’s like standing next to the person who’s always in a cast - One of Brunacini’s Timeless Tactical Truths!
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Tcu sending a 2nd immediate need ST.
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VNC sending strike team 9325C and I shared the history piece with the guys from our station. Thanks for posting that. Good intel…
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Great job with the history folks! It is all pertinent info for this fire. History does repeat itself…
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Does anyone know how or if Bass Lake is impacted by the fire? Going there in a couple weeks (if I’m not deployed) and trying to figure out if I need to call an audible on vacation plans. Thanks!
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