Burning 1.8 miles east of Lomita and 1.8 miles south of West Carson, since Tuesday 25 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-302672 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 101 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 101 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
101hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:20am on Tuesday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
4.6miles
is how close the heat has come to Lomita 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 West Carson is 4.4 miles, None in the last day.
3.1miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Five other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-297151 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 3.8 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299374 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 3.8 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299553 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 2.9 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299989 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 2.9 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-301637 Fire started 1095 minutes before this one, 3.5 miles north-east, 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 20.5 miles from the fire: 71°F, air at 90% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the south-east.
How it got here
One day of record on a day-5 fire
The record here begins at 2:00am on 25 Aug and runs to 2:20am on 25 Aug — 0 hours, 2 readings of heat. The fire is on day 5, 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. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.
The whole record, 7 frames at
1 hour
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Hour by hour local time
Tue 2:00amTue 2:00am
Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the
fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say
anything, so the hours are shown instead.
Day by day 1 day of record
Tue25 Auglatest
First readings
2 heat readings
Heat from 2:00am to 2:20am
Spread 3.1 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 101 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
