36,000 Acre 'Creek' Fire- More than 200 Campers Rescued

Blew up over night in extreme temperatures in California's Sierra Mountains.
Correction: California ARMY Air National Guard.
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[@rochellepaputsis7245]

Praying for all in the region

[@richardburguillos3118]

Great report Juan. No sensationalism, just the facts as always. Enjoy your reports more than mainstream media. Patreon Support folks... a little goes along ways.... and thanks to Silas Marner that shared the zoom.earth link. Amazing images.

[@cbshomebizplane]

Wow the fires are going crazy down there 😔, Juan you have done a great job of reporting these fires, thanks for the update God bless you and see you here.

[@kevinstephenson3880]

I have a cousin in Susanville. They had to recently evacuate but are ok for the time being. Spent alot of time all over Northern California as a boy. Glad your ok and reporting. Thank you for the updates. Stay safe!

[@Mustang00007]

Yes, Juan, the fire has made the main stream news here in Australia. Hope our people have arrived to help you guys. We will have the same issue here this Summer.

[@jimramos7839]

Heavy fuel loading, that's the real reason these fires explode the way they do. 100 here in Oroville before noon. Thanks for your great reporting Jaun.

[@jonanderson5137]

And the excessive fuel comes from Cali not backburning or clearing.

[@brown-eyedman4040]

I know that in the Yosemite area much of the forest is standing dead trees. The Western Slope of the Sierra have needed a fire to clear out the dead tree and underbrush for many years now. Prayers for all those dealing with this tradegy.

[@hughaxton]

On Sunday 117 at 1 PM near Wildomar [Inland Empire]

[@johnbaskett2309]

Logging creates healthy forests. Seen it first hand in Northern Idaho where I grew up. The forest quickly turns to a tinder box when logging is stopped and fires not allowed to burn in a controlled manner.

[@blancolirio]

Yep!

[@f.dt.f3965]

have seen a lot of mismanaged forests in 30+ years of wildland firefighting..its a shame to waste natural resources like this...someone coulda built houses with the lumber....and people are homeless..makes ya sick

[@Wookey.]

The forests must have been healthy before the loggers arrived, so loggers cannot be a _requirement_ for healthy forests.

[@johnbaskett2309]

@@Wookey. Fires kept the forest healthy.

[@brendanh8978]

@@Wookey. the natives set fires to clear out the areas they hunted and lived in long before Europeans got here.

[@motor2of7]

I live just south of Bass Lake, under the ash cloud of this fire. Evacuation notices are coming out frequently. The smoke is so thick the night lights on our garage lights are still on and it’s 11:30! Very little air movement where I am, so it’s eerily quiet. This isn’t a Cal Fire incident, it’s a National Forest Service incident.

[@christopherjohnson3520]

Hey 👋 Juan! Holy Moly Is It Hot. Time to Set The World 🌎 On 🔥 Fire. Campfires are the Opposite of Goodness. One Way In & One Way Out. Not a Great Plan. Escape? Anybody Got a Helicopter 🚁? Thnx California. Beautiful Idaho Covered in Your Smoke. Where’s Pete? Thnx! CJ

[@BhutanBluePoppy]

@NNA Thank you so much. I copied & pasted your entire post

[@motor2of7]

NNA thank you for the detailed list. My wife was just asking what papers to gather, I have her your list. We have an RV and will head to the Central Valley if it comes to that. So far the expert opinions are that the primary direction of the fire will be to follow the terrain toward the Yosemite high country (Mariposa Grove) What satellite data are you accessing.?

[@rynetreatch9558]

My in-laws were supposed to be camping at Bass Lake this weekend and week. They got there yesterday and the Camp Host said they should leave immediately because of this fire. They said the sky was black. They made it back to Bakersfield safely.

[@bretleysfilm4078]

Even just down in the Central Valley it’s disgusting

[@garyhusband3395]

Excellent coverage description and explanation. Thank you very much, Juan.

[@hermandarr6224]

Having watched a lot of fires over the last 60 years in the Sierra's I would guess the top of that fire cloud is over 30,000 ft. elevation. Thanks for the information and update on the fire.

[@firewatch814]

It had topped out 52,000 ft.

[@dhones23]

Thanks for the content Juan. One BIG correction however. That was a Army National Guard CH-47F accompanied by a Army National Guard UH-60. The CH-47 made at least three sorties, with one lift taking 101 evacuees! I just retired and those are my bros getting that done.

[@ICARUSDevices]

Seconded! Great video but those were ARMY Guard birds!

[@blancolirio]

Yep, see correction in description above.

[@dhones23]

@@blancolirio Always gotta keep an eye on you Air Force guys! ;-)

[@miker7532]

Thank you Juan for the pinpoint information . I work for the National Weather Service here in San Francisco and we used this video for our briefing today and i wanted to thank you for he details provided . Been a fan and subscriber since the early days of Orovile spillway failure thank you

[@GaryKettwig]

Thank you for your indepth report. Showing detailed layers really gives me spacial awarenes of how massive a fire and how difficult it is to run. Wow I hope all get out as safely as possible.

[@RicoLen1]

0:19 This fire's smoke cloud looks more like a volcanic eruption plume than a wildfire's cloud.

[@melonie8139]

🎯

[@thomasfink8813]

Thank you again Juan! Amazing up-to-date on task. On point!

[@pdxyadayada]

Great to see you back, Juan!

[@easternwoods4378]

And I bet the Mighty Luscome loves to have him back too

[@dianablanke2543]

Prayers for everyone and their homes.

[@sixtoes2313]

Thanks Juan.

[@peachiejean5643]

Thank you Juan for another fire update! 💖🇺🇸

[@efo1358]

Thank you for the information, you’re going to get my support and I’ll share your information to my family in Grass Valley! I’m respectful of the this and I will only pray for the crews that are there. Thank you and everyone who is flying to control it in the air. 🙏😇❤️

[@BillPigg]

Thanks, Juan. Great reporting!

[@Cultural_Supremacist]

Great job Juan... nobody provides useful, raw content like you do.

[@johnm3850]

Thanks for the fire updates.

[@richs6205]

Appreciate your clear and through explanations. Well done.

[@DFDuck55]

111F degrees down here in Glenn County as I watch this video. Praying California doesn't do any rolling blackouts during this heat wave, like happened back when Gray Davis was governor, selling our electricity to Oregon. If that does happen go to your nearest Shopping Mall. They have electrical backups (diesel generators) to keep their A/C and lights going. --- I had a feeling there was another fire somewhere, the moon was a dark orange last night. I used to live up in that neck of the woods in the mid to late 1970s, in Oakhurst and Bass Lake. I have a nephew and his family still living in Oakhurst. The forests were much safer from fires back then because they allowed people to purchase a permit allowing them to cut up to 20 cords of downed trees (not allowed to fall trees) which kept the forest floors much less of a tinder box like they are now. The bigger concern back then was earthquakes. A few times I was out in the wilderness and had to put my back against big trees because large boulders were rolling down the mountain.

[@exrobowidow1617]

Shopping malls are open in California? I can't keep track of the latest scheme for this COVID thing, but L.A. County is being kept on lockdown at this time... or is it? I learned the other day that the rolling blackouts are assigned in groups, and you can get the information off your electric bill as to which group you're in. I'm not sure if they give advance notice when your group is going down, though.

[@DFDuck55]

@@exrobowidow1617: Good point. I didn't even think about if the malls are open or not. It's been a few decades since I've been to one. This whole lockdown thing really hasn't changed much for me. I live 15 miles from town and only go to town twice a month to get groceries, same as I did before. And there's no malls in that town. The only difference for me is now I have to wear a mask.

[@ronanderson5736]

Thanks for your update! Great job!

[@frankgulla2335]

Nice job, Juan. Good coverage of the new fire and how to escape. Thank you.

[@alanhelton]

Now that’s what I call SOLDIERING!!! Talk about standing Guard!!!! I started weeping openly at the beginning when I saw that CH 47 laying down in the thick of it. What Id give to live that life again!

[@GrandsonofKong]

Per InciWeb @11 am today..fire now at 45,500 acres!!! Went on backpack trips in Kaiser Peak and Dinkey Lakes Wilderness Areas back in the mid-90's, just east of the fire zone. Narrow twisty roads to get to each trailhead...can't imagine trying to get out via road in a wildfire. Thank God for ANG helicopters! California has got to be close to 2 million acres of wildfires so far and it's early September...

[@richc47us]

thanks Juan!

[@LVCMS]

Thanks Juan. Always appreciate getting the straight scoop with no politics.

[@tommanion5504]

Overnight winds had blown the vast majority of that smoke over the mountain into the Owens Valley. Mid morning, our visibility here in Bishop was only a couple of hundred YARDS! Now, mid afternoon, our visibility up to about a mile. Happens every time there's a fire on the Western slope.

[@timothycook2917]

Yesterday it was so hot in the Magic Valley of Idaho, I decided to take a trip to the top of Mt. Harrison in the SE part of the state (9,200 ft.). It was 76°F at the top and about 40-50 miles of visibility. Today, you can't even see the mountains from town, it's so clogged with smoke and another hot day...

[@jiveturkey9993]

I'm about 2500 foot elevation in Southern California. yesterday at 9 a.m. it was a hundred and three degrees and it got to a high of 111. Today is pretty much the same. That number at 9 a.m. was very unusual for this area. The high of 111 I would say probably happens a couple of times each summer.

[@jiveturkey9993]

@@osakarose5612 actual air temperature.

[@timothycook2917]

@@jiveturkey9993 My friends, who live in Victorville, decided to go to San Diego for the Labor Day weekend. They said it's so hot and humid there, they wished they had stayed home!

[@ehsnils]

Thanks for sharing.

[@PhilipAlonzo]

Welcome back juan

[@WillysPerformanceCycleCtr]

Thanks for you usual, factual, non-sensationalized report on the “Creek” Fire. Take care my friend!

[@vasilisiatropoulos3474]

It's heartbreaking when these fires destroy in a couple of days forests that took decades to grow. We get our fair share of this calamity here in Greece as well, most of them deliberately set.

[@bobroberts2371]

There have been vids talking about the unintended consequences of preventing / knocking down fires. Small fires would burn off brush leaving trees mostly untouched. By preventing these flash fires, brush is able to accumulate resulting in large uncontrollable fires.

[@vasilisiatropoulos3474]

@@bobroberts2371 Very true in principle. I'd be the last one to have a clear view about Californias' ecosystem. However, here in the Mediterranean there's no such thing as small fires. Once they start, they burn everything, especially on a windy summer day. And most fires occur at elevations below 700 meters, at pine forests with a ground layer of dry needles instead of undergrowth.

[@flyerjack1548]

John Montgomery ... Does anybody have a look (or search words we could use) to watch that TED talk? I bet many would be interested. Thanks.

[@bpdp379]

Flyer Jack this might be the one. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWe5kqysbqt2gq8

[@jbizzle1966]

I wonder how many firefighters there were before Christopher Columbus came along? I mean how did we manage?

[@enjoylife1176]

Thanks for the update.

[@russell3380]

I've been watching this fire (little info) and waiting for this update (most info possible). Thanks Juan!

[@BMXStatus302]

We’re now at 73,000 acres as of Sunday evening. There’s also a rumor floating around that this fire was started by an unattended campfire. Somewhat plausible as there is a private campground at Big Creek where this fire started...

[@stiletto71]

We have a cabin at Shaver. They evacuated Shaver. Hopefully, they stop it before it gets anywhere near the town.

[@robertborchert932]

Juan! I had to pause the video, a serendipitous moment you just could not plan for. At 2:45, you said, "I'll show you how they...got stuck." An advertisement interrupted the video. A table with a plastic man, and a closeup of a model maker. He applies a drop of Krazy Glue, and plops the figure down. Then the board is deluged with a garden hose. He is the last man standing. Impossibly funny timing.

[@blancolirio]

yea! I saw an ad for a damn fire starter tool!!! (I'd like to dump all ads and go Patreon only)....

[@robertborchert932]

It was so perfectly timed, I first thought you inserted the clip as humor. Smelling this smoke instantly gets my adrenaline going, years spent as a brush monkey hopping from those 205s.

[@lspringerjones]

My Brave browser blocks all KZbin ads. I never see them.

[@kevint1910]

the fuel load is so extreme up there that you cant even get between the trees in most places.

[@blancolirio]

Man!!

[@johnpurdum8126]

Mismanagement of forested lands again rears its dangerous consequences. Thinning of the forests is so very necessary and now too many acres will be left desolate. Pray there is loss of life in these rugged conditions

[@TheUserid82]

Sounds like a perfect place to send in a prison work crew with hand tools to pull that fuel out and at worst stack it in a spot it can be burned when the rains are in. Simple tasks like cutting the lower 20 feet of limbs off the trees and clearing fallen trees would not cost the state that much and make the forests much harder to burn.

[@robertborchert932]

Think of those neglected logging roads, Juan! Perhaps it's time to rethink harvesting lumber as a good thing. All of those beetle damaged trees could have been harvested...but they think the logging industry is evil.

[@f.dt.f3965]

@@robertborchert932 AMEN

[@nancychace8619]

Thanks for your good report. We'll all be glad when this season is over. Grateful they got those folks out of there - pretty nasty. Hang in there, everybody!

[@brakel8r]

Sierra Nevadas are my fave......what a place if youve never been. And folks....no matter where you live....plant a tree a year....small or big whatever you can afford

[@joell439]

Great update...... thanks

[@briansilcox5720]

Juan, appreciate all you do... in a state who's officials tie the hands of those responsible bedhind their backs... what more can we expect? Time to rethink who is in charge in People's Republic of California.

[@JonMulveyGuitar]

Damn that fire popped fast! We are getting all the smoke here in Pioneer. We were at 98+ degrees yesterday at 3500'... Stay safe! Go CNG Go! Thanks, Juan!

[@javahedz]

Scary stuff ... thanks for covering it, Juan!

[@jimgraham6722]

Good luck from Australia, last summer 27 million acres burned in eastern Australia, at one stage even metro Sydney came under threat. We don't have summer anymore just fire season, it starts in four weeks.

[@jbacon1861]

Amazing. I once camped at that very campground at Mammoth Pools. Crazy to think that it's just devastated now...

[@paulboden7850]

Excellent and timely coverage. Thx, stay safe!

[@jpaulkepler4638]

For us scanner/ ham radio folks...frequencies to monitor would be helpful . Knowing where not to be can be vital when trying to pick your escape route.

[@ccpperrett7522]

Thank you Juan. Prayers for everyone in harm's way and fire crews.

[@rochellepaputsis7245]

Gtsy Juan thank you for the updates I have friends and family in California

[@zz8494]

It’s our backyard my friend, stay on top of this. The national guard efforts have been amazing, can you get info out on volunteering and relief help?

[@captainchris0211]

I flew fire patrol in a Cessna 172 on behalf of PG&E in 2018. Logged about 500 hours in a box area bounded by Auburn-Truckee (north boundary) and Friant VOR to east of Shaver Lake (south boundary). My observation? ONE HUNDRED PERCENT FOREST MISMANAGEMENT IS TO BLAME FOR THESE FIRES. I've seen EVERY stitch of timber in that area, and the amount of dead/standing wood is atrocious. Sacramento should be held criminally liable.

[@firewatch814]

Washington also.

[@kk6aw]

I am sitting here engulfed in smoke, I am about 15 miles from the fire. This fire is just a few miles from the "Center of Calif " marker. I live in Auberry. Temp now 96 on the way to 105 here

[@ebhhon7826]

Global warming? No way, not in the USA ;-)

[@jiveturkey9993]

Our area is getting hit bad. Last month we had the Apple fire and now we have the El Dorado fire. And I'll tell you these North Slopes where we're at are insanely overgrown. They've got to be some of the densest vegetation on the planet. Last night I was looking at the fire through binoculars and I saw flames 200 to 600 feet high that were about four miles from me. Obviously from 4 MI away it's impossible to give an accurate assessment of How High the Flames were but they looked incredibly High.

[@markspc1]

Great information Juan !

[@tjohnson4800]

Juan, love the new logo!

[@happyraccoon4791]

Fire started at Camp Sierra near Big Creek. Lved in this area 18 years. Moved recently. From speaking with friends the fire is 4 Miles east of North Fork at noon today. It has gone up Cascadel Falls. My measurements are over 100 sq miles. I stayed at Mammoth Pool RV park, it is a mile Before Cascadel/Whiskey ck. Friend has land at Arnold. Had. It has reburned the Aspen and French fires. It traveled some 16 miles in less than 24 hrs. Peckenpah is burned. Just below Mammoth Pool RV, on Italian Bar rd is the geographic center of CA. This entire area has been plagued with pine beetles. On 15 acres near Shaver we took down 1000+ trees in two years. The west face of Yosemite is also rather toasted. Our place at Paradise didn't burn. We sold. Today I bought 150 feet of fire hose and a 160 gpm pump. For our 24000 gallon pool

[@blancolirio]

Wow! Thanks for the update!

[@richardcosgrove6885]

The CalFire Twitter feeds are the best sources for current information.

[@MrGTO-ze7vb]

Palo Alto is now 99 degrees at 1:30pm

[@tonymckeage1028]

Great update, those fires sound very savage

[@bode7164]

Thank you, outstanding report. It happens to be my favorite camping area a bit north of the fire. I hope they find resources to throw at it. It seems darn close to North Fork!

[@nielmadsen9806]

I used to live in North fork California going to Mammoth pool there’s only one road that is paved accessible for trucks two lane paved road no place to be trapped

[@rumoret]

This is the only channel that youtube will show in my feed, that is not a video ran by the Alphabet News monopoly. I love this channel, followed since Orville Dam overflow damage!

[@patmald]

Welp I guess I aint working near Friant. The most up to date acreage is 45000+ now and 800+ firefighters

[@blancolirio]

Wow!

[@patmald]

Shout out to my friend Ryan out of the Madera Cal Fire. Wish him luck and safety!

[@benderaviation]

Down here in SD we have a smaller burn that started yesterday, the Japatul Valley fire. It's currently 4000 acres and 0% contained. There is a TFR in place near one of the practice areas. Hopefully both are contained soon.

[@patrickp4827]

We're getting a nor'easter tomorrow due to that low pressure system coming in from Canada, that'll be causing snow in Denver as well. So I would expect if that low gets into No Cal, then expect a reversal.

[@JonathanSchwab2002]

Great job by YOU!

[@ik04]

Those are all the places I spent camping as a kid. There were some fires there in the '60s also...

[@jkelsey420]

This fire is bad ! We had to get evacuated from our campgrounds at Shaver Lake. Also my family members from Bass Lake had to be evacuated today

[@raymondhorvatin1050]

Thanks for the update better info than NBC

[@l.antoinetteanderson3736]

Another great presentation; thank you, Blancolirio!

[@greenfire6924]

Another outstanding and up-to-the-minute report Juan. However, as a 28 year USFS Wildland Fire retiree (and US Army Paratrooper, 82nd ABN DV) my suspicion is the Chinook crews were California ARMY National Guard- not Air Guard. Please correct me if Cal Air Guard is now operating Chinooks.

[@maryroller4417]

My daughter had just moved to California, when the SCU fires were burning, almost had to evacuate but it was called off. She is also at a higher elevation.

[@loremaable]

Hi from Reunion Juan. Thanks for the coverage, just hope Sierrea Nevada will not turn into Sierra Quemada !

[@MrRedTux]

Camp Oljato, a scout camp on Lake Huntington is under threat at the moment. I remember during our fire drills we would all gather along the water front and as a last resort were told to go into the lake.

[@bildrrick]

Thanks Juan I have been trying to get info on this all day. I’m camping in Big Pine,CA

[@markbergthold6181]

Nfic.gov National Interagency Fire Center Juan, you could prob get a guided tour here, incl smokejumpers. I toured in 2004, they’re a relatively small operation with huge responsibilities, incl air resource allocation & equip cache drops for large incidents w/IMTs.

[@2Phast4Rocket]

"The roads and bridges failed over the years and they don't get repaired." That, my friend, encapsulates the problems we have in California. Infrastructures don't get fixed but the California legislature keep throwing money at the illegal immigrants, pet environmental projects, and making it harder for normal people to work. Mean while, the state is crumbling, the forest isn't maintained, reservoirs don't get built. There is a 6 miles of Hwy 2 that was impassable due to a landslide over 50 years ago. Yet this road was not repaired. The entire state is like a Hollywood soundstage, it is a veneer of civility but underneath, you find poverty, homelessness, drug use, the worse of what you see in a third world country.

[@OhMySack]

Precisely! Counting down till WE'RE GONE!!

[@exrobowidow1617]

The forest roads are a federal problem. They charge extra fees to use some of our tax-supported forests here in southern California. The use fees (which a judge threw out, but are still being collected, last I heard) go towards things like replacing an outhouse at a remote group campground with a wheelchair accessible, solar-powered outhouse in an area that's not wheelchair accessible. At least near Big Bear a few years ago, they found some money to fix some of the more popular forest roads. I was getting frustrated that seemingly all the roads were being given over to the mountain bikers and OHV people, who were tearing up the trails and looking at us in an ordinary car like we were from another planet. These forest roads should be kept open for most everybody to use. I do remember meeting a logging truck coming around a blind curve, years ago when my dad was driving.

[@Markle2k]

Logging roads are maintained by the companies that use them, not the state. Most of these logging roads in the Sierra are unusable by anything other than a high-clearance vehicle or a motorcycle in any case after the logging trucks have churned them into talcum powder once the rains stop. You can find yourself in a 3 foot deep pit of powder with no warning. In the rainy season, they are gloppy clay.

[@2Phast4Rocket]

@@Markle2k Most of the roads in the Sierra are county roads, maintained by the counties or by the states. Logging roads are private roads and we can't use them

[@2Phast4Rocket]

@@exrobowidow1617 : The highways are state highways. They get fixed by the state after rain or storm damage. These are not the interstate freeways which are somewhat funded by the federal government but the laws the created the interstate dictate the states should maintain their own stretches of interstate. The Fed only kicks in partial funding.

[@sullyzworld4970]

So dig the beginning tunes reminds me of the dam coverage

[@muzaaaaak]

Woke up to ash on our cars again in El Dorado Hills today. This has to be the craziest August/September ever.

[@kellyabercrombie9769]

Awesome report as usual but with just one error. The Air National Guard was not involved in this operation. That was the ARMY National Guard based out of Fresno and Stockton.

[@blancolirio]

see correction above.

[@firewatch814]

The peckinpaw fire was actually caused by pyrocumulonimbus lightning. I was to the south of cascadel woods on south side of the river watching this beast move through kinsman flats. 2 days later it was literally at my back door in meadow lakes west of shaver.

[@waynesbeenthere9681]

The Blancolirio Studio needs a heavier duty drone to fly in windy conditions to get better shots of the clouds-- assuming you are not in a no-fly area. Stay safe- and the great work!

[@jroar123]

Well at least we don’t have to worry about snow hitting Colorado after Labor Day. O, wait..........

[@tomtheplummer7322]

Yup record heat followed by record cold.

[@spellingquestionable]

So you are home? Praise God. I bought property in Washington...for now... There is a Fire Warning here (in the west Cascades) until Monday night.

[@jackiemorrison6024]

Smoky in Alta Sierra too

[@wendylinkem6201]

I find getting timely ingo on fires is to listen to the local scanners.

[@trellend]

I live in Nevada, kinda East of there, the smoke is horrible, 1/2 mile vis.

[@ivanmachmueller7264]

Great update

[@bobbailey4954]

Thanks for the fire status

[@reddog-ex4dx]

115 degrees F in Tujunga, CA 08/06/2020 (Just north of downtown LA) I've lived here for 50 plus years and have never seen it this hot.

[@malcolm20091000]

As of 9 PM Sep 6 the fire is 74,000 acres. That's like an additional 38,000 acres yesterday afternoon. It's location tells me the fire isnt going to run out of things to burn anytime soon. Didnt they know this is just a really bad location to put a forest fire?

[@andrewyrigollen8242]

Hey Juan long time follower enjoy your channel for information. The origin of the fire started near Camp Sierra between Shaver and Huntington Lakes and then took a run down into the San Joaquin River drainage and then just exploded after that. There's still alot of dead trees due to drought, Bark Beetle and overgrowth/underbrush throughout the years. Thanks

[@blancolirio]

Thanks Andrew!

[@andrewyrigollen8242]

@@blancolirio your welcome. I live in Madera County and just got a evacuation warning for Bass Lake about 15 minutes ago.