Incident Media Photographs

During the construction of the shaded fuel break, heavy equipment has and important role to safely remove and transport salvageable timber from the shaded fuel break area.  

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During a day trip to the Red Fire within the Diamond Peak Wilderness, the Eastern Area Incident Management Team's fire behavior analyst captured this photo of the Red Fire's activity. The Red fire is slowly growing day by day. It consumes about a dozen trees daily. In what firefighters call single tree torching, embers from one tree make their way to the forest floor. When an ember hits a pocket of duff ( grasses, downed needles, and branches), the new fuel source intensifies the fire. As it heats up, it reaches higher into the ladder fuels (limbs and moss) and climbs higher up the tree until the fire reaches the canopy, new embers drop to the ground, and the process starts again.

Landscape view of the shaded fuel break constructed in between Odell Lake and Crescent Lake.  

Ground view of the Red fire within the Diamond Peak Wilderness.

This log pile is part of the shaded fuel break that is part of the reduction of fuels (grasses, brush, smaller understory trees) in between Odell Lake and Crescent Lake.  

Salvageable timber harvested during the construction of the shaded fuel break in between Odell Lake and Crescent Lake.  

Shade break work 8/1

During a day trip to the Red Fire within the Diamond Peak Wilderness, the Eastern Area Incident Management Team's fire behavior analyst captured this photo of the Red Fire's activity. The Red fire is slowly growing day by day. It consumes about a dozen trees daily. In what firefighters call single tree torching, embers from one tree make their way to the forest floor. When an ember hits a pocket of duff ( grasses, downed needles, and branches), the new fuel source intensifies the fire. As it heats up, it reaches higher into the ladder fuels (limbs and moss) and climbs higher up the tree until the fire reaches the canopy, new embers drop to the ground, and the process starts again.

This is a kestrel weather instrument with a weathervane and tri-pod Velcro strapped to a combi-tool taking weather observations just outside the of the fire perimeter on 7/28/24.

Incident Within a Incident Simulation

Incident Within a Incident Simulation