Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Is there fire burning along interstate 5 South of Castle Crags?

These are satellite images so it could just be a car or truck on fire or someone having thrown a cigarette that lit the grass or something but the satellite image looks like there is fire along Interstate 5. But, when I look for traffic slowing down it isn't slowing down so I'm not sure what this means.

Take a look for yourselves:
https://mappingsupport.com/p2/gissurfer.php?center=40.635446%2C-122.509423&zoom=11&fire=CA%2CCarr

Since the Satellite Heat spots went out on map now I figure whatever it is they put it out. Likely it was a grass fire maybe started by another Truck tire burning up which can happen when there are any dry weeds in the summers anywhere in the U.S.

By the way what happens when a  Semi Truck tire burns up is one of the dual tires goes flat for some reason usually because it either picks up a nail or something or goes flat for another reason. But, when one of the duals on a semi goes flat it doesn't look flat because the other tire in the dual holds it up. But then remaining one of the duals that still has air in it eventually catches fire because it cannot hold that much weight alone. So, eventually it is going to catch fire. This is different than a truck throwing off a recap that overheats usually but this is another thing that can happen too. This might also eventually cause either the tire that throws the recap to catch fire or the other tire in the dual to catch fire either way. So, this is just something that happens sometimes on Semi-trucks across the U.S.

So, likely more fires in summers especially are likely going to be set this way especially in the western drought stricken states from Colorado to California from the Continental divide West mostly.

The reason I think it was a truck tire fire is that the heat spots on the satellite covered several miles along Interstate 5 which would lead me and possibly you to conclude that is the most likely cause. It likely wouldn't be a spark from the Carr fire because that likely would center in only one area where that ember landed. But, a truck tire fire keeps throwing hot burning rubber until the truck driver or another driver alerts the truck driver that there is a problem which easily could be the case here.

Whoops! even though on my Iphone the satellite fire dots disappeared they are still along Interstate 5 now on my computer just south of Castle Crags which makes it even more likely that it was a truck tire on fire that started the grass along the freeway along several miles of freeway.

And now as further evidence there might be a fire along Interstate 5 there I'm seeing a red line in the south bound lane between Delta and Lakehead and then another one south of there which might be more evidence of a fire along Interststate 5 simply because there is not much traffic this time of day to actually cause a problem like this. The only three things likely to cause this would be either a fire, an accident or someone working on the road there or any two or all three things at once.

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