Author: wes

– June 12, 2011 0800 Briefing Meeting – NEW

06/12/2011 0500 MDT IR Flight Report:

The northern end was cooler tonight but still some heat in the Water Canyon with unburned fuels.  There was also heat along the Little Co River, but south of the burnout lines.

There was intense heat on the west side of the fire south of Greer south to the head of Black River.  The area around Reservation Lake had cooled down from the previous night.  There was some large growth with intense heat just north of Boogy Mtn along Road 25 and roads with in the Reservation.  Further south there was some large growth with intense heat in the Black River Valley at McDonald Creek.

The Southern portion of the fire continues to creep southward with moderate heat along most of the perimeter.

The Southwest area had some intense heat down to the confluence of the Blue River with Blue Creek. No heat was detected on the eastern side of the creek.

There was a large burnout operation on the east side of the fire along road 220. The finger stretched for several miles to the southeast. There was very little heat detected in the northeast side of the fire.

“I ended up overlaying the data from your site and got the following.  I

presume that is the same data Ed & Laurie used.”

Download KMZ File here for Google Earth

The image was made with infrared light. Bright red spots are actively burning areas, and darker red areas are freshly burned ground. Unburned forest and grassland is green, while sparsely planted earth or bare ground is pale pink. In many places, the fire has burned right to the edge of the forest. The image shows that the fire is intense: It has thoroughly burned the forest leaving few ribbons or patches of green in its wake.

Hi Wes –

Here are 7 more IR mesh maps based on the latest IR mosaic from 6/10 2301. They focus on the most active areas: Alpine, Greer, Blue.

There are 2 for the S Fork area.  SFork is by X Diamond Ranch and E_SFork is east of there along the Little Colorado.

There are 3 for the Greer area.  RRGreer is the River Reservoir area.  SGreer is the south end of the valley.  NGreer is just south of the 260.

There are 2 for the Alpine area.  TalWiWi is the area around Ted and Annie’s place and NAlpine is  NE of the Alpine residential area.

Laurie taught me how to do that so I’ll be helping now, too.

EDC3

Wes,

Thanks for your information and timely updates.  Most insurers, particularly after a disaster, are pretty good at responding and will have a claims team on site.  But issues may arise regarding adequacy of proof, valuation or coverage.  I’m a little old to work the fire lines, but I can and will help with insurance claims anyone may have from the fire.  Born and raised in Apache County, I am a lawyer with 30 years experience in insurance claims and am happy to guide anyone through the process and answer questions at no charge.

Office: 602-256-9400;

cell phone 480-444-9449,

or email: rlgreer@bwglaw.net 

Robert L. Greer

Here’s a video sent to me from jim Nierenberg of the Greer Fire Dept.  It was taken Thursday morning.

Crosby Street (Debbie): …smoke so thick, ‘you could cut it with a knife’….Looks that way over what I can see in the whole area of Spanish Trail, Burk Street, and all around…Can’t see the hills nor Flat Top…

North Springerville (Ellen): Gutierrez Dr. right up against the mesa, can see smoke over town-Spr., but the acreage in front of our house is clear. Cows are grazing as if nothing is amiss.

South Fork (Catharine): So the status is that as of an hour ago no structures lost but there are many active small fires in teh south fork and some larger ones on teh east end of the south fork.

– UPDATE (1944): South Fork update from Wink at X Diamond: No structures lost, large fire on Eastern part of South Fork seems to be blowing East now. Many smaller fires in the area but many firemen protecting the area.