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Published: 2014-09-25 19:06:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 1217; Favourites: 47; Downloads: 37
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A wild fire burning in the mountains of Northern California. The King Fire near Pollock Pines, west of Lake Tahoe.Wild Fire burningOn Saturday September 13, 2014 a small fire was intentionally set in the pine forested Sierra Nevada mountains near the small town of Pollock Pines CA. The fire, on the first day was a measly 40 acres or so, but on Sunday the 14th the wind kicked in and the fire exploded in the tinder dry trees. California is in its 3rd year of drought and everything will burn. For fire maps and more information check out The YubaNet online paper http://yubanet.com/nevada/King.php – it has been a literal life saver for many people who were in the way of this monster.
My family does not live within the danger zone but several friends like :iconstephgabler: and her family do. They have lived with the threat of evacuation, having gotten the “voluntary” call on the 4th day of the fire.
The winds and dry conditions had the fire moving so rapidly that it moved over 15 miles in the course of ONE night! Thousands of people have been evacuated a
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Thanks for posting. This was used in Inferno: Enter The Windigo , for Where is the love? , hosted by DA-LOVERS .
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yeah... it was hard to not just stand and stare
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Oh my, is it still on going, I have been on holidays
and haven't watched the news 
but definitely great captures
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It is still going but today's containment amount is up to 92% - mostly mopping up doing on now and finding the stands within the lines that are still smoldering...the personnel is down to 3100 from the peak of over 8000! We had almost 3" of rain fall over the fire area over the last few days which helped considerably with getting a handle on it... thanks for viewing
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You are Welcome and that is definitely
good news and hope it will come to an end soon
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Brrr! I've seen way too many of those smoke clouds around here the last few years! What disturbs me about this fire is that it was arson.
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yeah, that would be a good punishment!
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Indeed! You know it is bad when it still smells like smoke and there's been a day of rain...
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It will smell like smoke for a while. Last year I had the big fire storm down here in Tuolumne County. We were smelling the smoke from that fire into November. I hope that today's weather helped your fire out. It is nice when the rain helps clean the smoke off the trees and freshens the air.
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Tonight's report has the fire at 85% containment 
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I get the impression from several of these that you were able to get fairly close? I also have to imagine that there is a limit to how close they would Let you get.
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I think at the absolute closest we were maybe half a mile away...a good camera/tripod and a 300mm zoom helped 
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It did. We also thought it looked like a volcano...it was caused by a major flare up; those towering pillars of smoke have dominated the horizon for way too long!
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Sorry, to hear that. Goes with the territory I suppose but a lack of a rain in CA sure doesn't help.
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that is very true...it is what made this one so explosive - that and it was burning in an area that hasn't burned in over 100 years!
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