Jerome Hunt, the Stake President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints contacted me this morning and asked that I communicate his desire for the people of our community to fast. His hope is that we dedicate this fast to the comfort of the people who have been displaced from their homes, the safety of those people, and the containment and end of the fire. Please join us in this effort.
Greer Update | 9 June 2011
The Wallow Fire Structure Assessment Team has completed its work in Greer. The team reports that 22 homes were destroyed, 5 homes damaged and 24 outbuildings and 1 truck destroyed. The Apache County Sheriff is still in the process of tracking and notifying the property owners who were affected.
– Additional update for Greer from John Freeman Jr.:
“Greer is as of this date very lucky. we lost some structures but no people. there is a DC10 dropping slurry as well as helattack dropping water. there are a number of backburns going on and dozer lines to stop the fire from coming around” (assume from the SW). “The slope in back of paradise acres is damaged and “nuked” in several areas but the bright side is a lot of the fire stayed on the ground and there is some duff (stuff on the ground) to help retard erosion.
We still have fire around us and all is not over but the crews have kept most of it away from our properties. There are fire crews from all over the US, Greer Fire is helping support them and do structural protection. (we are getting very dirty but Jeff is making us steak and shrimp tonight compliments of no power and freezer not working).”
NBC12’s William Pitt’s Twitter Feed of 9am Meeting
– Thanks Will! Follow him @william_pitts | 9 June 1031 hours
Sounds like the big push is going to be the northwest corner and the blue #wallow #azfire
1 minute ago
Head of the fire is one mile from eagar with a dozer and burnout line between them #wallow #azfire
3 minutes ago
No slurry bombers because of mountainous terrain. Takers can’t manuever over close mountains, low elevation #wallow
7 minutes ago
Greens peak still under pre evacuation #wallow #azfire
8 minutes ago
“Greer is not out of danger” #wallow #azfire
9 minutes ago
Greer structures burned were all on east side of town..fire didn’t make it to west side #wallow #azfire
10 minutes ago
No spot fires in springerville or eagar, no homes lost #wallow #azfire
14 minutes ago
“We’re a long ways from talking about containment” #wallow #azfire
16 minutes ago
Expect to see a more defined smoke column today bc of wx conditions #wallow #azfire
16 minutes ago
“It’s gonna grow today” #wallow #azfire
17 minutes ago
Ar least six structures lost in greer #wallow #azfire
19 minutes ago
Will not release property detals on alpine or nutrioso #wallow
19 minutes ago
747 is not flying today. Msisspoke yesterday, getting dc-10 instead #wallow
19 minutes ago
Crews will try to backburn along little CO river by greer #wallow #azfire
20 minutes ago
Fire has run up to the south end of river reservoir by greer #wallow #azfire
21 minutes ago
Fire lines are holding south of round valley #wallow
21 minutes ago
Crews checking northeast finger around escudilla for hot spots, looking good by nutrioso #wallow
22 minutes ago
Area around escudilla mtn is in mop up “looking really good” #wallow
23 minutes ago
Still picking up heat around hannagan meadow – getting worried about the blue river area #wallow
23 minutes ago
New acreage 336,167 acres #wallow
25 minutes ago
10am briefing’s starting right now #wallow #azfire #12news http://yfrog.com/ca6crij
25 minutes ago
IR/Google Maps Meshed Data | 09 June 2011
Ed Coleman from the Valley sent me this information. Laurie Herring layered the IR data with Google Maps data. Here is her comment and the image.
– 1st Image – This is the only residential area near Eagar that looked threatened. Major hwy is 261 just south of the 260.
– 2nd – 5th Images are Greer
Latest Updates & News | 09 June 2011 @ 1001
- Dumper is dropping today. Missions starting at 0900
- Notifications start today for people that have lost homes. Alpine will hear today, and then it will go to Nutrioso and continue heading North along the evacuation path. Notifications are dependent upon weather and access to the areas. These will take time, so please be patient (the next few days)
- — From someone trying to register their property to be notified | “I was told by the sheriff dept. that you HAVE to call 928-333-3412 to register you property.” Thanks Claudia Miner
- Google Earth is most up to date data! Use the link on the right-hand side
- Hopefully there will be no more Red Flag warnings for the next seven days.
- Meeting Notes | 9 June 2011
BLOG UPDATE @ 6/8/2011 – 9:46pm
Overwhelming would be an understatement to describe how this experience has been so far. Yesterday at 3:30 my family decided to load the horses and head out. I didn’t realize how hard that was going to be. The back burn smoke made Round Valley very eerie. (GOTTA RUN, MORE TO COME..)
BLOG UPDATE @ 6/7/2011 – 12:30am
Posted to Facebook – I would like to apologize for any advertising that was shown before the stream came on when you logged on. I need everyone that is following http://wallow.us/ to know I am NOT in any way attempting to monetize this. I pay for a pro account on Justin.tv to remove ads that would play during the stream and interrupt your viewing experience. I apologize they play an ad before the stream begins. I in no way am trying to make any money on this terrible situation that we are in. I was saddened to see comments that would suggest something like that. Thanks for logging on, you are the entire and only reason that I’m doing this.
BLOG UPDATE @ 6/7/2011 – 7:51am
The last 24 hours have definietly been a unique experience. I dedicated all of my efforts outside of my job to trying to help with communications on the fire (mostly through Facebook, Twitter, and http://www.wallow.us. It has been such an intense time, but an amazing experience. Yesterday I helped the local call center located at the school’s District Office get properly segmented and secured with their data network. I installed an Untangle box which is doing most of the work for me now. Once they were back up and running I got ready for the live stream which was a whole other experience. Trying to live blog and run a camera at the same time is not an easy task. I hope that the stream was useable enough that it was beneficial for people. At the peak of the meeting I noticed 1740 people watching it live. I’m not sure if that was the highest number, but the highest that I saw. At midnight while reading through the amazing emails that I got from people all over the country I pulled up the analytics for my blog, and saw that i had over 10,000 views yesterday. I hope that this site is helping out, and hope I can continue to provide accurate information to everyone affected by this fire. Thank you for making this such a beneficial experience.