Milford Flat Fire

This fire started with a lightening strike on Friday and in the last two days it is now completely out of control. It has jumped the interstate 30 miles from here and closed down a section of the interstate that goes for about 100 miles. It went eastward up and over the mountains that are pictured here and northward into more mountains. So far they are saying it has consumed over 280,000 acres in a 250 square mile radius. The winds have been very high and have moved it really fast.

The picture of the road was taken about 5 miles from the first picture and only about 20 minutes apart. This is a wall of smoke moving northward towards a geo-thermal power plant that ships steam to California. This train track is further down the road closer to the fire. At this time it was just getting it's legs.

This picture was taken from my neighbors lawn facing north east at 1 A.M. with my cell phone. This fire is a good twenty miles away from where I was standing at the time and this was the most unreal thing that I have ever seen. It had a 30 mph wind going west to east at the time that was pushing it along. The orange clouds were well over 500 feet into the air and probably as far as you could see was just glowing.. so were the clouds at 1 A.M.

After this picture this fire had begun it's travel over the mountain ranges and proceeded to jump the interstate where they had to close it down because of the smoke that was so black and so thick that no one could see where they were going.

Please go take a look at the news footage in this link of the Milford_Flat_Fire.We have been glued to out T.V.'s trying to get updates. This footage isn't enhanced in any way but is actually a bit under played for the complete monstrosity of this fire.

Take care all... will keep you posted.