Burning 1.6 miles south-east of Carson and 3.7 miles north-west of Signal Hill, since Saturday 22 August.
The fire sits 374 miles from Sacramento.
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acreage not yet reported
6
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 6:56am today
The Lac-299374 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 75 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 75 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
75hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:40am on Wednesday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
1.4miles
is how close the heat has come to Carson at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Signal Hill is 3.2 miles, None in the last day.
1.6miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-297151 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 3.6 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299553 Fire started 165 minutes after this one, 1.7 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299989 Fire started 800 minutes after this one, 1.7 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-301637 Fire started on Monday 24 August, 0.5 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302672 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 3.8 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302955 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 3.4 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground five times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 14 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.
Where the heat is
No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.
Conditions measured 16.7 miles from the fire: 71°F, air at 90% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the south-east.
How it got here
Four days of record on a day-8 fire
The record here begins at 2:56am on 22 Aug and runs to 3:41am on 26 Aug — 97 hours, 12 readings of heat. The fire is on day 8, so the first 4 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen.
The whole record, 35 frames at
3 hours
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Day by day 4 days of record
Sat22 Aug
First readings
1 heat readings
Heat from 2:56am to 2:56am
Spread 0.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Sun23 Aug
Flaring up
4 heat readings
Energy 7.0 times the day before
Heat from 2:02am to 2:56am
Spread 1.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Mon24 Aug
Cooling off
1 heat readings
Energy 71% down on the day before
Heat from 2:39am to 2:39am
Spread 1.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Wed26 Auglatest
The fiercest day
6 heat readings — the most of any day
Energy 9.5 times the day before
Heat from 2:45am to 3:41am
Spread 1.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Nothing has looked at it for 75 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
