Milford Flat Fire update

This photo belongs to KUTV.com as taken from the air over the Milford Flat Fire earlier this week.

363,052 acres so far....That is the latest numbers on our Milford Flat Fire.

I realized that I had no clue what an acre was and definitely had no concept of what that amount of acreage was. Check out the link above and you will see why I was totally blown away at the amount of actual land that these numbers meant. To see it drawn out geographically is more of a massive thing than just hearing about it.

We have firefighters from all over the country helping to fight this monster fire. Sunday of last week we had smoke and hot ashes falling on our town and on us if we were outside. Visibility was very bad at the time. By Monday, it had cleared up some.

Last Saturday, a prescribed burn on the Greenville Bench, went out of control also. It is in the same vicinity of the east side of our fire just on the other side of the interstate. Yesterday it had consumed and additional 14,600 acres within the same county. What a mess! The Greenville Bench fire has 236 firefighters and should hopefully be contained today.

They are shooting for Tuesday on the Milford Flat Fire with the 564 Type 1 firefighters that are fighting this enormous blaze. They plan to turn it over to the Type 2 firefighters sometime today or tomorrow hopefully.

Our fire at the moment is roughly in 85% containment. Lots of farmers lost their feed for their cattle, horses, etc. FEMA is helping out with the costs of the fire, but I think that the farmers and ranchers are going to need some serious help to survive after this. It is also so sad for the animals who make their homes on the mountains and in the surrounding area. Some were most likely able to flee, many were not so lucky.