That was the Eagle Fire in LMU around 1989. There was a full length video that showed the whole event up through the burned FFs being air transported by C 202. The video was a training video used for years as part of a series of near Miss/ fatality fires. Every CDF station at the time was issued the series on VHS tapes. Maybe some exist or have been converted to a newer format.
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Heres a time lapse from the Oroville area I believe last year.
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As you guys have seen many times fires can make their own weather.
https://youtu.be/ukIvY7VNYWE
Notice how the storm swirl is clockwise, unlike a hurricane’s counter clockwise rotation.
Wildland 8
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This one appears to have a counter clockwise rotation
Wildland 8
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Also the one for the canyon fire is rotating clockwise.
This is pretty nuts –
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I could think of a few other adjectives to add to that as well based on intelligence and human factors…but interesting fire Behavior for sure!
Our friends in Australia have their versions…
for context
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Lessons learned from the loyalton fire were applied here, a tornado warning was not issued because of evacuations taking place do to the fire but national weather service contacted incident command to make them aware.