June 20, 2006

Fire Updates

Brin Fire Map of 20 June 06
( Go to the bottom of this entry to see a larger version of this map.)

How do you find first hand information about local or regional fires?

Land managers like the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management tend to have lots of precise and useful information about every fire incident, and that includes the Coconino National Forest. For up to date information about the Brin Fire in the Oak Creek Area, for example, go to the Coconino Nat'l Forest web pages to find discussions, plans, progress, predictions, maps, estimated costs, etc. However, information from Coconino seems slower to appear on the National Situation Reports, sometimes lagging by a full day. Otherwise, and for most fires, we would recommend you go to the National Fire News or the Southwest Coordination Center web pages first.

Brin Fire Map of 20 June 2006. The blue dots are helicopter landing zones. The parens are boundaries between fire team divisions in the planned fire line. The solid red line is the projected fire line. The red line with red spines is the head of the fire at the time the map was prepared.

Posted by The Naturalist at June 20, 2006 6:26 PM