Western Railroad Discussion > Northern California Fire

The local news here in the East (Phila. PA) is issuing reports of a forest fire East of Sacramento that was deliberately set. Is this fire having an impact on the Roseville area or any parts of the Donner line?

Thanks for your info.

Jim

Nope.

King Fire:
http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/19/6720237/highway-50-open-through-king-fire.html

Pick a State and check out the Fire status:
http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/state/5/

NOT endangering I 80 or the UP over
Donner -- yet, but it could. Cal Fire says
it has burned more than 70,000 acres and
is only 10% contained -- up from the 5% I
had read last night. The news report I read
said that Cal Fire said they have dropped more
fire retardant -- almost half a million gallons so
far! -- than has been dropped o any fire in world
history!

GOOD JOB so far, firefighters! Keep it up!!

Cal Fire info on the King Fire:
http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1059

But we did lose more historic narrow gage logging history

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Margaret_SP_fan Wrote:
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> NOT endangering I 80 or the UP over
> Donner -- yet, but it could. Cal Fire says
> it has burned more than 70,000 acres and
> is only 10% contained -- up from the 5% I
> had read last night. The news report I read
> said that Cal Fire said they have dropped more
> fire retardant -- almost half a million gallons
> so
> far! -- than has been dropped o any fire in world
> history!
>
> GOOD JOB so far, firefighters! Keep it up!!
>
> Cal Fire info on the King Fire:
> http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_det
> ails_info?incident_id=1059

The Sac Bee article has a side note about evacuating Swansboro, no fire just evacuating. Look it up on Google Maps, the other fire line is Hiway 50. There will be smoke getting into the Valley due to the weather pattern, which will change again in the next day or two. If there's trouble on Donner they'll move traffic over to the FRC with re-routes over the LA&SL and over the Blues, that's always been their plan.

Not to worry, after the Earthquake and California falls into the Ocean, the sea water will put the fires out.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/19/14 11:07 by TCnR.

Western Montana valleys are seeing smoke from the California fires but some rain is coming to help wash it out a bit.

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The King Fire is so big that the smoke plume
is as long as Colorado!

The fire has now crossed into Placer County and the Tahoe National Forest, and is past the half-way point to Donner Summit--it's gone over half the distance from US 50 to I-80 in just the past few days. If the winds push it, it could keep going in that direction. Very large, scary fire.

Where I live, it is a constant stream of CAL-FIRE planes flying overhead on fire retardant runs. Here is a link to that video of the huge operation of flying / re-fueling them out of Sacrmento's old McCellan Air Base:

http://www.kcra.com/air-tanker-fleet-works-overtime-to-slow-down-king-fire/28150860

Found a Map on a County Website, shows the perimeter of the fire. For some reason it wasn't on the Inciweb link. It's large but it has it's limits, at some point the Sierras are exposed granite shield with not much vegetation.

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