However, I found it interesting because I was staying in Mt. Shasta during this time and I was grateful none of my friends' homes or acreage was burned or destroyed.
This article is really interesting because it shows all the past fires in this area for the past 15 or 20 years too.
The Railroad tresle was burned near Weed, California that may take 1 year or two to replace. So, there is NO train service now between Eugene Oregon and Redding California at this point. So, there are no Amtrak Trains between Eugene or Freight trains traveling this route either. Freight trains are now rerouted eastward and up through Donner pass near Lake Tahoe into California now from Oregon. But, likely Amtrak is all Buses now from Eugene to Redding California.
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https://wildfiretoday.com/2021/06/29/lava-fire-runs-8-miles-north-crosses-highway-97/
Lava Fire runs 8 miles north, crosses Highway 97
Northeast of Weed, California
Updated at 8:24 p.m. PDT June 29, 2021
The map above shows heat that was detected on the Lava Fire by satellites orbiting more than 200 miles above the Earth. This system is not nearly as accurate as mapping from a helicopter or using infrared on a fixed wing aircraft, but it can give us an idea of where a fire is.
The fire was active on Tuesday, putting up a great deal of smoke, but not nearly to the extent as on Monday. From the available cameras, most of the action appeared to be south of Highway 97.
There is little official information being made available about the fire itself.
Here is a link to a map with the latest evacuations and road closures from the Siskiyou County Office of Emergency Services: https://arcg.is/1CrfH40
The map above shows the history of wildfires during the last 30 years in the vicinity of the current Lava Fire.
It is possible that the 2006 Hotlum Fire influenced the spread of the Lava fire, splitting into two heads. But there is also a field of lava in that area just south of Highway 97 which on satellite photos appears to be lightly vegetated, so it’s difficult to say from afar.
At Wildfire Today we covered the Boles Fire which burned through Weed in 2014.
Updated at 11:32 a.m. PDT June 29, 2021
Tuesday morning the Incident Management Team for the Lava Fire near Weed, California reported that the fire had burned 13,300 acres. Judging from the map, (see below) that number is likely to change.
While the fire was burning a battle broke out between a person who was told he could not enter the fire area and law enforcement officers. The Mount Shasta Vista subdivision that was threatened by the fire is the home of hundreds of marijuana grows.
From the Modesto Bee:
The newspaper said that during the fire the growers were hostile to firefighters. Not feeling safe, the firefighters did not enter the area.
The last time the city of Weed was seriously threatened by a fire was in 2014 when 157 residences and 8 commercial structures burned in the Boles Fire. It was started by an arsonist south of the community and was pushed by a strong southeast wind gusting over 40 mph.
6:56 a.m. PDT June 29, 2021
The Lava Fire east of Weed, California, pushed by strong winds Monday afternoon ran 8 miles to the north.
It crossed a railroad, Highway 97, then burned five miles further north-northeast across flat ground. At 1:48 a.m. Tuesday it was at Chipmunk Road in Montague, a half mile south of the A12 road.
(To see all articles on Wildfire Today about the Lava Fire, including the most current, click HERE.)
No information has been released by the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office, the Incident Management Team, or the Shasta-Trinity National Forest about residences or property that were impacted by the fire after it crossed Highway 97. As this was written at 6 a.m. Tuesday, the Incident Management Team’s InciWeb page had not been updated in 20 hours.
There has been no official estimate released about the size of the fire, but by our figuring it is likely more than 4,000 acres.
At 6 a.m. PDT Tuesday cameras showed active fire on the hill east of Carrick, east of Hilltop Lane.
The fire area was under a Red Flag Warning Monday from 1 p.m. until 9 p.m., stating, “Strong, gusty wind with low relative humidity and high fire danger will likely contribute to a significant spread of new and existing fires.”
The strong winds experienced Monday afternoon had been predicted at least 20 hours in advance. Sunday at 4:47 p.m. we wrote about it on Wildfire Today:
That forecast from the National Weather Service was exactly right.
According to the fire’s InciWeb page, the fire started at about 7:45 a.m. June 25 on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. It has been managed since June 28 by a Type 2 Incident Management Team, California Interagency Incident Management Team 14.
We will update this article as more information becomes available.
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