Outside of Georgia, the wildfires are hard to find information about, it can seem, using sources such as the internet, unless you know exactly where to look. ABC [News] [June 12, 2012 or thereabout] says Georgia is one of the states that heads the list of states that are being ravaged by wildfire currently.
More accuracy of a description of the situation is there have been, or there are brushfires in quantities, currently burning or were burning , but the size of these fires is minimum compared to for instance the current High Park, Colorado, that tries to stick his chest out.
{Satellite photos, and media coverage snapshots of fires that you see on image search results on the internet/online for wildfires fires in Georgia, are mostly photos from 2011. Even if you enter 2012 in the search term, the computer is going to generate Georgia wildfires, combined with other information in 2012 that might not have anything to do with wildfires in 2012; so please be cautioned about this, and look closely at your query results if you are studying or researching the wildfire topic}
Now what has occurred earlier this year in Georgia is, cut copied and pasted, with color effects added, from the story 'Threat Of Wildfires Soars In Georgia
April 11, 2012 12:12 PM;'
ATLANTA (AP/WAOK) – Forecasters warn the threat of wildfires is high across
much of Georgia, and any fires that develop will likely spread rapidly.
The National Weather Service issued a red flag warning for high fire danger from
11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday.
The warning covers north and central Georgia, where winds are expected to
gust up to 25 mph. Forecasters say humidity will be low, helping to create
potentially dangerous fire conditions.
In metro Atlanta, brush fires poured smoke on interstates on Tuesday, [April 2012] causing
poor visibility. Firefighters in DeKalb County battled blazes along I-20 and
I-285.
[end of AP/WAOK story]
Practical information useful in understanding Georgia and wildfires 2012 and 2011:
Size of Wildfire
The Honey Prairie Fire: 310,000 acres, means that about 484 square miles burnt; now that means, if you were to draw a box around the fire, one side of each box is about 22 miles. The fire was about 22 miles long and 22 miles wide.
The size of the Honey Prairie Fire is a little bit more than TWICE the size of the High Park fire going on in Colorado right now.
Another way of looking at it, is the High Park fire, near Fort Collins, CO, is about half the size of the Honey Prairie Fire.
Rarely is a fire in the exact shape of a box; the box illustration is to give an idea of what it is or was there to be contended with.
Size of the fire or wildfire is not everything, when determining whether or not it is a priority to fight, contain, and bring under control. A fire small in acreage or number of feet squared area, such as an office building, can be a priority, if there are 10s of thousands, 10,000 people in there.
What Summer Weather Does
Summer weather in Georgia making it a hotbed for fires, is also because:
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
WILDFIRES East to West Sweep & Roundup. Update for June 13, 2012
There are about 20 to 25 wildfires currently raging big enough to gain either media attention or the radar screen of NIFC, the Interagency Fire center.
Looking at the continental United States, first, starting in the east, which is Washington DC, and looking westward:
{Updated 6/15/2012: Serious concern and consideration for PREPAREDNESS is}Georgia, there is [updated June 15, 2012] the threat of wildfires there. This is based off what occurred this time in June last year 2011, where over 400,000 acres were torched due to fires of different kinds, about 3 quarters of that, the land that was burnt was the Honey Prairie fire on the Okefenokee Swamp .a wildfire there. In the past few months, there have been brushfires in Georgia, but these fires are not of the magnitude to be placed up in the level of severity or threat warning escalation with the larger wildfires that are going on such as in High Park, Co-/Little Bear, NM.
The two biggest wildfires going on right now are the High Park, Colorado fire, and Little Bear, New Mexico fire.
High Park, Colorado fire, which is in the northernmost part of the state, namely Larimer County, and sits the first county in the center of the state of Colorado right below the Wyoming border. The fire, if 60,000 acres, is about 10miles long and 10 miles wide. Although it is only a few miles compared to the entire land mass of, Colorado or Wyoming, the concern is the 10 miles long and wide, or 100 square miles, is straight fire, nothing but fire, which if not contained and controlled, could expand very quickly, has extreme heat, and could have ramifications that include chemicals mixes in the air that are very dangerous. There is a mountainous range there with fern trees on it, the trees appearing to be the majority of the fire fuel. The area of the fire is about double what it was on Saturday when it is said by media to have started. There are about 12 aerial vehicles working on it. Some fire manager say they have enough of what they need in terms of access to getting what they need. Complete containment, albeit, still has not been reached according to recent reports, as of today 5pm EST June 13, 2012.
Directly below the High Park fire in Colorado, on the exact same longitude line, 105, there is a fire in new Mexico, namely 'Little Bear', which has been raging longer than the High Park fire.
Working from east to west on the continental U.S., after the Georgia fire, [updated 6/152012 up there as the first stop] there is a fire in the northern part of Michigan. The pictures of the fire show that the fire itself, is very violent. Michigan can be deceptive to the eyes in terms of what geographic land masses constitute the state. there is the large part that looks like a bear claw, then, there is another area north of it separated by water that looks like, or shaped similar to a T-bone steak. At the northern central part of this T-bone steak shape, is where the Duck Lake fire is, which is just north of Newberry, Michigan. Duck Lake is northeast of Chicago, Illinois. Duck Lake, when talking about the fire, is a land mass, not the lake; it is not a fire on a lake, such as fire if there was a gas or oil spill on the surface of the water that ignited. Be cautioned that there is another Duck Lake in the southern region of Michigan, which is NOT the location of the Duck Lake fire. Duck Lake fire is the name given to the fire which emergency responders all know what is being referred to; there are other names of this area that are suffering from the fire, such as the Lake Superior shoreline. The top edge of the T-bone shape land mass part of Michigan is bordered with the southern parts of the waters of lake Superior, on of the 'Great Lakes'.
The next stop, moving west from Michigan, drop down to the middle of the country, the Heartland, and there is a fire right in the middle of Kansas. Information on internet is harder to come by for this fire. The fire is named Sylvan fire. The location of the fire is just northwest of Wichita, Kansas, it is north of Hutchison, and west of Salina, probably the closest town to the fire, which is Ellsworth, the fire is just miles east. Again, be careful about matching name with places, as there is another place named Sylvan, [Sylvan Grove], which is in the eastern part of Kansas; that is not where the fire is. The level of containment of the fire, is not found on many national media websites.
After the Sylvan fire, what is arguably the closest 2 fires from it, are both the High park in Colorado, and the Little Bear in New Mexico, which are about equidistant from Kansas, meaning about the same distance away; only thing is, the High Park fire, in Colorado, is obviously more northern in geographic location, and New Mexico, known for its warmer climate, in the southern part of the U.S., or toward it, further, the Little Bear fire is in the southern part of New Mexico. Additional information about these geographic locations, is, Colorado is a large state, and although known for cold winters and dry air, is not exempt from dry climate that facilitates fires. These 2 fires, are the only 2 coded the same according to the report of NIRC June 12, 2012, in terms of how they are being treated by firefighting. Basically, these are the big 2, and of very serious concern, threatening, and very dangerous.
Just above Colorado, and the High Park fire, there are 2 fires burning not too far from each other in Wyoming, in the southeastern part of the state.
Dropping back down to Colorado, there is another fire at the very southern border, the 'Little Sand' fire. The location is about 1 quarter of the way from the very southwestern corner of the state.
Back in New Mexico, which is the state directly south of Colorado, there are several fires burning scattered throughout the state.
Directly left, moving westward from New Mexico, is Arizona, clearly in the southwest. They have several fires burning throughout the state, in different areas. There are ones big enough to be listed, and there seem to be smaller ones, although no less dangerous in their ingredients, that might get put out in a day or so, which might not make the list. Fire '257' toward the center of Arizona seems to be ranked the biggest and most dangerous, while the Gladiator fire, a few miles to the west of that one, and a little more north, still toward the center of the geographic region of the state, received much coverage about 3 weeks ago, and appears to be winding down, getting closer to 100% containment.
Directly north of Arizona, and west of Colorado, is Utah, which has a cluster of several fires burning toward the south central part of the state.
Nevada, west of Utah, is dealing with fires; 'Copper Mountain' fire, looks to be on the border shared with Utah and Nevada, toward the very north of both these states. The is another ['Barnes' fire], that looks almost to be a duplicate situation of the Copper Mountain fire, on the border of these 2 states, only difference in location, is that it is toward the very south of these 2 states.
California has 1 fire right in the very middle of the state, 'George' fire. According to the 'incident report' on June 9, 2012, which was 4 days ago, the fire started on the 1st of June, 2012, about 2 weeks ago; the fire is about 70% contained; not a lot of structural damage; the fire effects mainly Sequoia National Forest, Freeman Creek Giant Sequoia Grove, and Giant Sequoia National Monument; about 1800 acres have burned.
The report is at:
http://www.inciweb.org/incident/article/2885/14151/
For a practical or better idea of the size of the fire,1800 acres is just under 3 square miles, [2.81 to be closer] which means, if the fire was in the shape of a box, on side of the box is the square root of 3, which is about 1.73 miles, or about between 1 and a half miles and 1 and three quarters of a mile, on each side of the box; more precise is 1.68 miles, which is about 1 and 2 thirds of a mile, on each side. The fire is east of Fresno, California near the main highway artery running north of Sequoia National Forest. Mount Whitney and Ovens Lake is right around and to the north of the fire, and to the south of the fire is Owens Lake.
Just as the name implies, the fire there is adjacent the mountainous region of California.
Looking at the continental United States, first, starting in the east, which is Washington DC, and looking westward:
{Updated 6/15/2012: Serious concern and consideration for PREPAREDNESS is}Georgia, there is [updated June 15, 2012] the threat of wildfires there. This is based off what occurred this time in June last year 2011, where over 400,000 acres were torched due to fires of different kinds, about 3 quarters of that, the land that was burnt was the Honey Prairie fire on the Okefenokee Swamp .
The two biggest wildfires going on right now are the High Park, Colorado fire, and Little Bear, New Mexico fire.
High Park, Colorado fire, which is in the northernmost part of the state, namely Larimer County, and sits the first county in the center of the state of Colorado right below the Wyoming border. The fire, if 60,000 acres, is about 10miles long and 10 miles wide. Although it is only a few miles compared to the entire land mass of, Colorado or Wyoming, the concern is the 10 miles long and wide, or 100 square miles, is straight fire, nothing but fire, which if not contained and controlled, could expand very quickly, has extreme heat, and could have ramifications that include chemicals mixes in the air that are very dangerous. There is a mountainous range there with fern trees on it, the trees appearing to be the majority of the fire fuel. The area of the fire is about double what it was on Saturday when it is said by media to have started. There are about 12 aerial vehicles working on it. Some fire manager say they have enough of what they need in terms of access to getting what they need. Complete containment, albeit, still has not been reached according to recent reports, as of today 5pm EST June 13, 2012.
Directly below the High Park fire in Colorado, on the exact same longitude line, 105, there is a fire in new Mexico, namely 'Little Bear', which has been raging longer than the High Park fire.
Working from east to west on the continental U.S., after the Georgia fire, [updated 6/152012 up there as the first stop] there is a fire in the northern part of Michigan. The pictures of the fire show that the fire itself, is very violent. Michigan can be deceptive to the eyes in terms of what geographic land masses constitute the state. there is the large part that looks like a bear claw, then, there is another area north of it separated by water that looks like, or shaped similar to a T-bone steak. At the northern central part of this T-bone steak shape, is where the Duck Lake fire is, which is just north of Newberry, Michigan. Duck Lake is northeast of Chicago, Illinois. Duck Lake, when talking about the fire, is a land mass, not the lake; it is not a fire on a lake, such as fire if there was a gas or oil spill on the surface of the water that ignited. Be cautioned that there is another Duck Lake in the southern region of Michigan, which is NOT the location of the Duck Lake fire. Duck Lake fire is the name given to the fire which emergency responders all know what is being referred to; there are other names of this area that are suffering from the fire, such as the Lake Superior shoreline. The top edge of the T-bone shape land mass part of Michigan is bordered with the southern parts of the waters of lake Superior, on of the 'Great Lakes'.
The next stop, moving west from Michigan, drop down to the middle of the country, the Heartland, and there is a fire right in the middle of Kansas. Information on internet is harder to come by for this fire. The fire is named Sylvan fire. The location of the fire is just northwest of Wichita, Kansas, it is north of Hutchison, and west of Salina, probably the closest town to the fire, which is Ellsworth, the fire is just miles east. Again, be careful about matching name with places, as there is another place named Sylvan, [Sylvan Grove], which is in the eastern part of Kansas; that is not where the fire is. The level of containment of the fire, is not found on many national media websites.
After the Sylvan fire, what is arguably the closest 2 fires from it, are both the High park in Colorado, and the Little Bear in New Mexico, which are about equidistant from Kansas, meaning about the same distance away; only thing is, the High Park fire, in Colorado, is obviously more northern in geographic location, and New Mexico, known for its warmer climate, in the southern part of the U.S., or toward it, further, the Little Bear fire is in the southern part of New Mexico. Additional information about these geographic locations, is, Colorado is a large state, and although known for cold winters and dry air, is not exempt from dry climate that facilitates fires. These 2 fires, are the only 2 coded the same according to the report of NIRC June 12, 2012, in terms of how they are being treated by firefighting. Basically, these are the big 2, and of very serious concern, threatening, and very dangerous.
Just above Colorado, and the High Park fire, there are 2 fires burning not too far from each other in Wyoming, in the southeastern part of the state.
Dropping back down to Colorado, there is another fire at the very southern border, the 'Little Sand' fire. The location is about 1 quarter of the way from the very southwestern corner of the state.
Back in New Mexico, which is the state directly south of Colorado, there are several fires burning scattered throughout the state.
Directly left, moving westward from New Mexico, is Arizona, clearly in the southwest. They have several fires burning throughout the state, in different areas. There are ones big enough to be listed, and there seem to be smaller ones, although no less dangerous in their ingredients, that might get put out in a day or so, which might not make the list. Fire '257' toward the center of Arizona seems to be ranked the biggest and most dangerous, while the Gladiator fire, a few miles to the west of that one, and a little more north, still toward the center of the geographic region of the state, received much coverage about 3 weeks ago, and appears to be winding down, getting closer to 100% containment.
Directly north of Arizona, and west of Colorado, is Utah, which has a cluster of several fires burning toward the south central part of the state.
Nevada, west of Utah, is dealing with fires; 'Copper Mountain' fire, looks to be on the border shared with Utah and Nevada, toward the very north of both these states. The is another ['Barnes' fire], that looks almost to be a duplicate situation of the Copper Mountain fire, on the border of these 2 states, only difference in location, is that it is toward the very south of these 2 states.
California has 1 fire right in the very middle of the state, 'George' fire. According to the 'incident report' on June 9, 2012, which was 4 days ago, the fire started on the 1st of June, 2012, about 2 weeks ago; the fire is about 70% contained; not a lot of structural damage; the fire effects mainly Sequoia National Forest, Freeman Creek Giant Sequoia Grove, and Giant Sequoia National Monument; about 1800 acres have burned.
The report is at:
http://www.inciweb.org/incident/article/2885/14151/
For a practical or better idea of the size of the fire,1800 acres is just under 3 square miles, [2.81 to be closer] which means, if the fire was in the shape of a box, on side of the box is the square root of 3, which is about 1.73 miles, or about between 1 and a half miles and 1 and three quarters of a mile, on each side of the box; more precise is 1.68 miles, which is about 1 and 2 thirds of a mile, on each side. The fire is east of Fresno, California near the main highway artery running north of Sequoia National Forest. Mount Whitney and Ovens Lake is right around and to the north of the fire, and to the south of the fire is Owens Lake.
Just as the name implies, the fire there is adjacent the mountainous region of California.
COLORADO HIGH PARK FIRE UPDATE JUNE 13, 2012. Sky and land form there is EXTREMELY very dangerous situation. URGENT. 1+1='2a'
Location: Larimer County, Colorado; northwest of Fort Collins; southeast of Walden; Roosevelt National Forest; Red Feather Lakes; west of Livermore
June 13, 2012 update
Double the amount of acreage effected by the fire since Saturday; status at 9:30am EST June 13, 2012
Over 100 buildings destroyed
Residents have had to leave their houses, and evacuations appear to be continuing
The trend of the geagraphical spread of the fire, is it is expanding in area, like a circle becoming larger and larger
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Problem that is being gravitated toward:
formations in the ground, are merging with formations in the sky
what kind of formations are these, and why are they here?:
one of the answers is, pertinent subtleties in ground formations, are previous storms and catastrophes over the years, such as flooding and hurricanes, when synthesized or run and compressed together, form a whole, an altogether effect. There centralized as seen from the bird's eye view, is the geographic formations that sit directly beneath the location of the High Park fire.
the same situation may hold true in different dimensions of the Little Bear fire in new Mexico, where the formation that shows in the ground looks more menacing. The photos shown by media of conditions in the sky caused by the fire, do not look as severe as those over High park.
Whether conditions at and over Little Bear, New Mexico are attempting to merge with conditions at and above High park, is yet to see.
Part of why containment is necessary, is that chemicals released from 2 or 3 separate geographic areas from 2 or 3 or more separate fires corresponding to each, when combined together, could result in chemical mixes that are deadly, and we are not ready to defend.
How to repair: if the geographic formations are linked to processes which lead to hurricanes and flooding, then obviously what leads to flooding and hurricanes must be stopped.
It so happens that the area adjacent immediate northwest of Fort Collins area of Colorado is one of the places where the geographic formation spoken about above, wound up, and the area is taking the brunt of the wildfire catastrophe.
The straightforward things you need to know:
- the wildfire is bad enough. call this number 1a
- what has been appearing in the skies above it, is bad; whether it is the result of the fire, or only looks like it is the result of the fire; call this 1b
- the math is simple, 1 + 1 = 2
- When 1a and 1b are combined together, you will get this '2'.
- Whatever '2' is in this case, call it '2a', nobody wants this combination.
It might be recommendation, amongst many, to go ahead, get the fire under control. Now.
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Monday, June 11, 2012
COLORADO WILDFIRE: Frustration & Ugliness: A Fire that Awoke Rip Van Winkle. The Fire is in Progress at the Moment of Writing this Blog
The fire has been named the High Park Fire.
Flames were seen racing uphill, at angles in the direction of the slant of the mountains, at more of an acute angle than the mountains themselves.
Where: Larimer County, Colorado {primarily}
Firefighters need help out there, as in more support, as of earlier this afternoon.
After 6pm EST, some emergency response management say they have all they need.
NOW, just like a fresh fire started, CAUTION, just as easily, another COULD start, adjacent, and exacerbate the current situation; so, in some sense, there can NEVER BE ENOUGH READINESS.
Opinion [:] Once the fire it completely out, then, it can be unanimously, all that they need to work against the fire is in place. Other angles on containing and CONTROLLING the situation, in terms of contribution of teamwork strategies building, probably could not hurt.
"We can get all the resources we want and need," he [the incident commander] said.
But Colorado's House congressional delegation demanded that the U.S. Forest Service deploy more resources to the fire, which was zero percent contained and forced hundreds of people to abandon their homes.
'New Mexico, Colorado fires burn out of control' [published about 6pmEST/June 11, 2012/AP]
Helicopters with water have arrived from Canada to help.
1 person is 'missing' thus far. [As of June 12, 2012, the missing person has been identified as a 62 year old woman, now deceased]
Door-to-door evacuations were/ are[?] being performed.
Stories have it the fire started Saturday morning {2 days ago}.
The description of the flames on video: bright orange flames, just like an orange colored crayon. Huge white colored smoke clouds have formed, some looked like just the top part of a mushroom. On top of some of the white clouds are dark-gray-colored clouds.
The fire DOES NOT seem to be CONTAINED as of yet. 12:45 EST [June 11].
20,000 acres were burnt in 48 hours.
Elements of 'whisping', winds, helping, the flames. The kind of fire that could have awakened Rip Van Winkle.
What is a successful strategy for containing and putting the fire out?
The last footage seen, was the Colorado fire burning right now, is the kind of scene, fire loves, making due with the situation. The situation is, it is in mountainous area of Colorado, which is more rural than a densely populated city.
Flames were seen racing uphill, at angles in the direction of the slant of the mountains, at more of an acute angle than the mountains themselves.
Where: Larimer County, Colorado {primarily}
- Boulder County, Colorado {bordering and adjacent south of Larimer, of concern}
- Jefferson County, Colorado {bordering and adjacent south of Boulder County, in stories, and of concern}
- Broomfield, County, Colorado {bordering and adjacent southeast tip of Boulder County, of concern}
- more specifics: east of Walden, west of Fort Collins
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Firefighters need help out there, as in more support, as of earlier this afternoon.
After 6pm EST, some emergency response management say they have all they need.
NOW, just like a fresh fire started, CAUTION, just as easily, another COULD start, adjacent, and exacerbate the current situation; so, in some sense, there can NEVER BE ENOUGH READINESS.
Opinion [:] Once the fire it completely out, then, it can be unanimously, all that they need to work against the fire is in place. Other angles on containing and CONTROLLING the situation, in terms of contribution of teamwork strategies building, probably could not hurt.
"We can get all the resources we want and need," he [the incident commander] said.
But Colorado's House congressional delegation demanded that the U.S. Forest Service deploy more resources to the fire, which was zero percent contained and forced hundreds of people to abandon their homes.
'New Mexico, Colorado fires burn out of control' [published about 6pmEST/June 11, 2012/AP]
Helicopters with water have arrived from Canada to help.
1 person is 'missing' thus far. [As of June 12, 2012, the missing person has been identified as a 62 year old woman, now deceased]
Door-to-door evacuations were/ are[?] being performed.
Stories have it the fire started Saturday morning {2 days ago}.
The description of the flames on video: bright orange flames, just like an orange colored crayon. Huge white colored smoke clouds have formed, some looked like just the top part of a mushroom. On top of some of the white clouds are dark-gray-colored clouds.
The fire DOES NOT seem to be CONTAINED as of yet. 12:45 EST [June 11].
20,000 acres were burnt in 48 hours.
Elements of 'whisping', winds, helping, the flames. The kind of fire that could have awakened Rip Van Winkle.
What is a successful strategy for containing and putting the fire out?
The last footage seen, was the Colorado fire burning right now, is the kind of scene, fire loves, making due with the situation. The situation is, it is in mountainous area of Colorado, which is more rural than a densely populated city.
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