Category: ZNET

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– The fire was active again on the northern front, but burning into a backfire along the roads. There were two distinct lines of heat on the imagery. One was the burnout, and the other was the actual fire front. Both had quite a bit of intense heat.

– On the west side around Greer, there was quite a bit of heat, but not further into the community. The rest of the west side had intense heat and advancement to the west.

– The south side of the fire is still creeping to the south with the southwestern side being the most active.

– One portion of the fire on the east has pushed to within about 1500 feet from the New Mexico state line burning down toward  the Blue River.

– There is a portion of the east side that is burning downhill back into Alpine with intense heat. The perimeter moved about .4 miles closer to Alpine since the previous IR.

– The northeast side of the fire has cooled off quite a bit.

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Saw Mill Road (Matt): Lots of smoke from backburns. Spoke to a firefighter, he said they have backburned all the foothills from one end to the other from back of flat top to 260 and they have dozer lines that are very wide. No houses lost that he knew of, and, he said, basically no fuel left to burn but the trees. With no wind, which there is none right now BTW, it wouldn’t get into the trees. Just heard they may lift evacuations by tomorrow. That’d be great! No one around here (firefighters) seem to have any concern over South Eagar anymore, they say the outlook is great. Thanks to them for all they’ve done!

Dome (Tom): Night crews had said good progress was made last night on back burns and structure protection, they just hope the weather holds for a few more days.

26-Bar (Jordan): They have back burned along the south side of town and southwest. last night they back burned everything behind 26 bar ranch which is west of my house. Since the nights kinda kill the wind they back burn along the edges of town. Im pretty sure we ll be ok unless some crazy wind picks up. There are fire fighters patroling every where checking for spot fires.

Quote from Larry Sherwood | 10 June 2011

I wouldn’t usually post this on here, but this is a very respected man in the community, knows a whole lot more about the land then I do, and probably could outwork me for sure!

From Katie Davis Hunt on Facebook – I’ll take that 91 year old green thumbed man’s advice whose family brought the first saw mill to the white mountains!

“All things that grow have to be harvested, and will be one way or another! I’ve been telling those sons of bi%@$ that my whole life. . . How in the world did the forest ever live without the forest service?”

– Larry E. Sherwood

Please remember this is only the IR data from 6/9, not a compilation of all the days IR data. The scan was taken late June 8th.

Slight Buzzkill, but needed reality from Apache County Emergency Management.”There has been NO time set for returns of residents to the evacuated areas. When the fire management team determines there is no further danger from fire and the area has been deemed safe from all hazards, residents will be notified by the Apache County Sheriff’s Office.” – 2200 hours 9 June 2011 on their Facebook Page.

I need to thank all of those that have provided information to me, so I can get it on http://wallow.us.  I looked at my site’s analytics this morning and your information has been viewed in 61 different countries as of midnight.  Yesterday (9 June 2011), 21,113 unique visitors viewed the site throughout the day resulting in 43,924 page views.  That means that on average everyone checked back once throughout the day to see the updated data.  Again, thank you to everyone that has contributed to making this information available.

I need to give a shout out to a friend at Verizon Wireless.  Bridgette was kind enough to send me out a MiFi so I could keep connected during this event, and keep things updated for you.  It has enabled me to use my BlackBerry for other things (possibly audio streaming the town meetings I can’t make it to LIVE).  I know most of us on the mountain use Verizon Wireless, and I must commend them for the stability their service has shown during this fire.  I have only had one instance where I received an “All Circuits Busy”, and that was making a call to the East Coast.  The data services haven’t been quite as stellar, but effective enough for us to continue http://wallow.us | I don’t want to give her email address out, but if a few of you could please email me with “Wallow Fire Verizon” in the subject line so I can pass them on to her it would mean a lot.  Again, thanks Bridgette for helping to keep me connected no matter where I’ve been during the Wallow Fire.

Date Started: 5/29/2011

Number of Personnel: Approximately 3,012

Location: south and west of Alpine, Arizona

Including 24 hotshot crews and 79 handcrews

Cause: Human – under investigation

Equipment: 18 dozers, 197 engines, 61 tenders

Size: 386,690 acres based on last night’s infrared flight

Aircraft: 16 helicopters

Percent Contained: 5%

Injuries to Date: 3 minor injuries

Residences: 5,242 threatened, 29 destroyed, 5 damaged

Structures: 24 destroyed

Other: 1 truck destroyed