Wake up call for prepardness! Beachie and Lionshead fires!

[Rem700..300]

Friends and a member here lost their house around Mill City /Lyons area last night. From what she is saying things just exploded last night and the fire damage is horrible. From what I have heard the whole Ginger Bread house area off of hwy 22 is pretty much gone. Not 100 confirmed yet.

 

[Dipstick]

The Oregonian is reporting the Lionshead fire is currently 4,609 acres. The Beachie fire appears much larger.

 

[partsed]

We are loaded up here in Silverton waiting for the announcement to leave. We are at Level 2 currently.

 

[partsed]

View looking Southeast

 

[Ura-Ki]

Interesting.. Our shop is right near KSLE.. I saw a large Sikorsky helicopter a couple of hours ago (I believe it was an S-61). Where there any larger aircraft, like Electras, Neptunes, or DC-4/DC-6?

It's all rotor wing stuff right now, the bigger tankers are staging from Sisters/Redmond still, hitting it from the east! the National Guard rampped up the "Pinks" to the full 8 birds, with two on standy and two more being made ready! All fuel bowsers are pre positioning to the east, with 4 here to supply the fleet!
There are two big SkyCranes and a new Super Puma, as well as 4 or 5 UH-1 series here!

 

[Ura-Ki]

Was just up at the families farms, just south or Silverton and east of hyway 213, it's phucking BAD, and getting worse toward Aumsville!

 

[nammac]

Been hot and dry for so long, We didn't need the fierce winds to whip things up. Prayers for those in the path of these fires and well as those who have the task of fighting them. Stay alert, stay safe, things change rapidly.

 

[Ura-Ki]

Here is Aumsville! About an hour ago!

 

[Ura-Ki]

I wish my phone didn't intensive images, those photos are almost like after sunset.

 

[WAYNO]

We just received a call...My cousins live across the road from Promontory Park on the Clackamas...They were just told get out now! I keep viewing the interactive map. I don't see a new fire, but the Beachie Creek fire is 18 miles away.

Update...And this evening, with little more information, it seems the Riverside Fire is the cause of their evacuation.

 

[ZigZagZeke]

We are loaded up and ready. Closest fire to us is maybe 20 miles, but we live in the VERY DRY woods south of Eugene, about halfway up a 2000' mountain. If anything starts here it will go quick.

 

[Diamondback]

T&P to all in the affected area.

Makes me really want to learn to organize my life so I could live out of a Class C...

 

[Siljan]

A good way to watch this stuff is in Google earth. Once you have it installed, go to Fire Data in Google Earth and download MODIS or VIIRS KML files. VIIRS is more data intensive but seems to be more sensitive than MODIS.

 

[Siljan]

 

[partsed]

5 minutes ago

 

[spider]

Apparently there is a fire near Forest Grove too.

Wind is supposed to die down in a couple of hours.

That thing better not move into Hillsboro. I am praying.

 

[The Heretic]

I think it is up by Haag lake. I doubt it will go towards Hillsboro if the wind continues coming out of the east.

 

[fredball]

Thought's and prayers Brother

 

[Diamondback]

North of the River, fires in Whitman and Pierce counties too. 80% of Malden burned to the ground, evacuations and home losses in Graham and Bonney Lake. I'm sure there's more...

 

[The Heretic]

Just a week or two ago I was thinking, mostly due to lack of news (or maybe my ignorance of it), that we (PNW) were having a mild fire season.