Burning 1.3 miles south-east of Carson and 3.3 miles east of West Carson, since Monday 24 August.
The fire sits 374 miles from Sacramento.
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acreage not yet reported
4
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-301637 Fire is burning. The last heat was seen 4 hours ago.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
4hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:45am on Saturday, local time.
1readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
1.3miles
is how close the heat has come to Carson at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 1.4 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to West Carson is 2.7 miles, 2.8 in the last day.
0.8miles
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, 3.1 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299374 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 0.5 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299553 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 1.2 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299989 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 1.2 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302672 Fire started 1095 minutes after this one, 3.5 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302955 Fire started 1416 minutes after this one, 3.5 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 17.0 miles from the fire: 71°F, air at 90% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the south-east.
How it got here
Five days of record on a day-6 fire
The record here begins at 2:39am on 24 Aug and runs to 2:43am on 29 Aug — 120 hours, 11 readings of heat. The fire is on day 6, so the first day is 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, 43 frames at
3 hours
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Day by day 5 days of record
Mon24 Aug
First readings
1 heat readings
Heat from 2:39am to 2:39am
Spread 0.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Tue25 Aug
Flaring up
3 heat readings
Energy 2.0 times the day before
Heat from 2:20am to 3:41am
Spread 0.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Wed26 Aug
The fiercest day
4 heat readings — the most of any day
Energy 1.5 times the day before
Heat from 2:00am to 3:21am
Spread 0.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Fri28 Aug
Holding
2 heat readings
Energy 33% down on the day before
Heat from 2:43am to 3:04am
Spread 0.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Sat29 Auglatest
Today so far
1 heat readings
Energy 50% down on the day before
Heat from 2:43am to 2:43am
Spread 0.6 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. Heat was still showing within the last half-day, and the record still lists this fire as active.
