Seeng a nice header from Fresno is this thing taking off
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Moved into heavier fuels and has south wind on it but still with in the their planned containment.
Looking like it has two heads.
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Can we say Yellowstone 1988? Reading fire LNP?
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That’s a stretch. 
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I’m not sure how the two compare? I believe Yellowstone was a combination of no natural fire in the ecosystem heavy fuel loading and multiple starts. We have here 2 lighting starts both under management for benefits it has been burning for weeks moving mostly pretty slow and in a lot of areas low intensity. It sounds like they have held it everywhere they’ve wanted to.
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More akin to the Ill fire in 1991
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Perimeters from NIFC. Red is sitting above Illilouette Basin, which is poster child for managed fire with more repeated entries of managed fire than anywhere else on the West Coast except for maybe the Hoopa Reservation or the American River Parkway (:^>).
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I’d throw in golden trout wilderness too.
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Good for the forest (I guess) but not for the thousands of taxpayers visiting Yosemite on Labor Day.
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At this point people heading into the Sierra in August gotta expect to suck some smoke—better to have smoke from a managed fire than backcountry helicopter evacs and Valley closures from an unmanageable one.
Anyway, Red looks like it’s back to scooting along quietly for the moment. Showing some heat on satellite but not much of a plume. Nothing on Rodgers
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“If you’re going to visit the Sierra in August you gotta expect to suck up some smoke” … Is that the attitude we should take to people who have traveled thousands of miles , perhaps on the trip of their lifetime to see El Capitan or any of the wonders of Yosemite? Fires that burn all summer create air pollution…and air pollution does not stay inside jurisdictional boundaries. If the Park wanted to burn this, they could do so in a manner that would minimize air pollution.
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Do you want a little smoke? Or smoke so thick it’s dark at noon? I think this is much better personally. Remember fire has been around longer than fire suppression.
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#RedFire 3558 acres
#RodgersFire 1644 acres
High temperatures, strong winds, and low relative humidity set the tone for some more moderate fire behavior which resulted in growth to the #RedFire - and to a lesser extent the #RodgersFire.
The Red Fire’s growth was primarily to the north and northeast in yesterday’s windy operations. The fire held along a granite ridgeline towards the northwest corner of the fire’s perimeter and is burning into granite barriers towards the northeast. The fire is north of the Illilouette Creek.
The Rodgers Fire overall has produced moderate fire behavior in the last 24-hours. In the southeast and southwest corners of the fire’s perimeter, the fire progressed downslope into some dead and downed brush and timber. Crews were successful here by using a combination of direct line construction and use of natural barriers.
These fires have indeed grown in acreage but remain within the fire management plan’s objectives and continue to play a natural role in our ecosystem’s health through restoration of ecological balance of natural our landscapes.
For more information and the latest smoke outlook:
Red Fire - Red Information - InciWeb the Incident Information System
Rodgers Fire - Rodgers Information - InciWeb the Incident Information System
Yosemite National Park
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Says the guy with the username “Burnit”
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