36,000 Acre 'Creek' Fire- More than 200 Campers Rescued 

My in-laws were supposed to be camping at Bass Lake this weekend and week. They got there yesterday and the Camp Host said they should leave immediately because of this fire. They said the sky was black. They made it back to Bakersfield safely.

Logging creates healthy forests. Seen it first hand in Northern Idaho where I grew up. The forest quickly turns to a tinder box when logging is stopped and fires not allowed to burn in a controlled manner.

I live just south of Bass Lake, under the ash cloud of this fire. Evacuation notices are coming out frequently. The smoke is so thick the night lights on our garage lights are still on and it’s 11:30! Very little air movement where I am, so it’s eerily quiet. This isn’t a Cal Fire incident, it’s a National Forest Service incident.

I have a cousin in Susanville. They had to recently evacuate but are ok for the time being. Spent alot of time all over Northern California as a boy. Glad your ok and reporting. Thank you for the updates. Stay safe!

Heavy fuel loading, that's the real reason these fires explode the way they do. 100 here in Oroville before noon. Thanks for your great reporting Jaun.

Yes, Juan, the fire has made the main stream news here in Australia. Hope our people have arrived to help you guys. We will have the same issue here this Summer.

Great report Juan. No sensationalism, just the facts as always. Enjoy your reports more than mainstream media. Patreon Support folks... a little goes along ways.... and thanks to Silas Marner that shared the zoom.earth link. Amazing images.

Wow the fires are going crazy down there 😔, Juan you have done a great job of reporting these fires, thanks for the update God bless you and see you here.

0:19 This fire's smoke cloud looks more like a volcanic eruption plume than a wildfire's cloud.

Having watched a lot of fires over the last 60 years in the Sierra's I would guess the top of that fire cloud is over 30,000 ft. elevation. Thanks for the information and update on the fire.

Thanks for the content Juan. One BIG correction however. That was a Army National Guard CH-47F accompanied by a Army National Guard UH-60. The CH-47 made at least three sorties, with one lift taking 101 evacuees! I just retired and those are my bros getting that done.

Praying for all in the region

Thank you Juan for the pinpoint information . I work for the National Weather Service here in San Francisco and we used this video for our briefing today and i wanted to thank you for he details provided . Been a fan and subscriber since the early days of Orovile spillway failure thank you

Thank you for your indepth report. Showing detailed layers really gives me spacial awarenes of how massive a fire and how difficult it is to run. Wow I hope all get out as safely as possible.

Excellent coverage description and explanation. Thank you very much, Juan.

Great job Juan... nobody provides useful, raw content like you do.

Thank you for the information, you’re going to get my support and I’ll share your information to my family in Grass Valley! I’m respectful of the this and I will only pray for the crews that are there. Thank you and everyone who is flying to control it in the air. 🙏😇❤️

Overnight winds had blown the vast majority of that smoke over the mountain into the Owens Valley. Mid morning, our visibility here in Bishop was only a couple of hundred YARDS! Now, mid afternoon, our visibility up to about a mile. Happens every time there's a fire on the Western slope.

Great to see you back, Juan!

Thank you again Juan! Amazing up-to-date on task. On point!

We’re now at 73,000 acres as of Sunday evening. There’s also a rumor floating around that this fire was started by an unattended campfire. Somewhat plausible as there is a private campground at Big Creek where this fire started...

Yesterday it was so hot in the Magic Valley of Idaho, I decided to take a trip to the top of Mt. Harrison in the SE part of the state (9,200 ft.). It was 76°F at the top and about 40-50 miles of visibility. Today, you can't even see the mountains from town, it's so clogged with smoke and another hot day...

111F degrees down here in Glenn County as I watch this video. Praying California doesn't do any rolling blackouts during this heat wave, like happened back when Gray Davis was governor, selling our electricity to Oregon. If that does happen go to your nearest Shopping Mall. They have electrical backups (diesel generators) to keep their A/C and lights going. --- I had a feeling there was another fire somewhere, the moon was a dark orange last night. I used to live up in that neck of the woods in the mid to late 1970s, in Oakhurst and Bass Lake. I have a nephew and his family still living in Oakhurst. The forests were much safer from fires back then because they allowed people to purchase a permit allowing them to cut up to 20 cords of downed trees (not allowed to fall trees) which kept the forest floors much less of a tinder box like they are now. The bigger concern back then was earthquakes. A few times I was out in the wilderness and had to put my back against big trees because large boulders were rolling down the mountain.

Appreciate your clear and through explanations. Well done.

We have a cabin at Shaver. They evacuated Shaver. Hopefully, they stop it before it gets anywhere near the town.

Per InciWeb @11 am today..fire now at 45,500 acres!!! Went on backpack trips in Kaiser Peak and Dinkey Lakes Wilderness Areas back in the mid-90's, just east of the fire zone. Narrow twisty roads to get to each trailhead...can't imagine trying to get out via road in a wildfire. Thank God for ANG helicopters! California has got to be close to 2 million acres of wildfires so far and it's early September...

Nice job, Juan. Good coverage of the new fire and how to escape. Thank you.

Thanks, Juan. Great reporting!

Thank you Juan for another fire update! 💖🇺🇸

Thanks for you usual, factual, non-sensationalized report on the “Creek” Fire. Take care my friend!

It's heartbreaking when these fires destroy in a couple of days forests that took decades to grow. We get our fair share of this calamity here in Greece as well, most of them deliberately set.

Prayers for everyone and their homes.

Thanks Juan. Always appreciate getting the straight scoop with no politics.

Thanks Juan.

I am sitting here engulfed in smoke, I am about 15 miles from the fire. This fire is just a few miles from the "Center of Calif " marker. I live in Auberry. Temp now 96 on the way to 105 here

Good luck from Australia, last summer 27 million acres burned in eastern Australia, at one stage even metro Sydney came under threat. We don't have summer anymore just fire season, it starts in four weeks.

Now that’s what I call SOLDIERING!!! Talk about standing Guard!!!! I started weeping openly at the beginning when I saw that CH 47 laying down in the thick of it. What Id give to live that life again!

Thanks for your update! Great job!

It’s our backyard my friend, stay on top of this. The national guard efforts have been amazing, can you get info out on volunteering and relief help?

Juan! I had to pause the video, a serendipitous moment you just could not plan for. At 2:45, you said, "I'll show you how they...got stuck." An advertisement interrupted the video. A table with a plastic man, and a closeup of a model maker. He applies a drop of Krazy Glue, and plops the figure down. Then the board is deluged with a garden hose. He is the last man standing. Impossibly funny timing.

I've been watching this fire (little info) and waiting for this update (most info possible). Thanks Juan!

Our area is getting hit bad. Last month we had the Apple fire and now we have the El Dorado fire. And I'll tell you these North Slopes where we're at are insanely overgrown. They've got to be some of the densest vegetation on the planet. Last night I was looking at the fire through binoculars and I saw flames 200 to 600 feet high that were about four miles from me. Obviously from 4 MI away it's impossible to give an accurate assessment of How High the Flames were but they looked incredibly High.

Thanks for the fire updates.

For us scanner/ ham radio folks...frequencies to monitor would be helpful . Knowing where not to be can be vital when trying to pick your escape route.

the fuel load is so extreme up there that you cant even get between the trees in most places.

Welp I guess I aint working near Friant. The most up to date acreage is 45000+ now and 800+ firefighters

Thanks for your good report. We'll all be glad when this season is over. Grateful they got those folks out of there - pretty nasty. Hang in there, everybody!

Fire started at Camp Sierra near Big Creek. Lved in this area 18 years. Moved recently. From speaking with friends the fire is 4 Miles east of North Fork at noon today. It has gone up Cascadel Falls. My measurements are over 100 sq miles. I stayed at Mammoth Pool RV park, it is a mile Before Cascadel/Whiskey ck. Friend has land at Arnold. Had. It has reburned the Aspen and French fires. It traveled some 16 miles in less than 24 hrs. Peckenpah is burned. Just below Mammoth Pool RV, on Italian Bar rd is the geographic center of CA. This entire area has been plagued with pine beetles. On 15 acres near Shaver we took down 1000+ trees in two years. The west face of Yosemite is also rather toasted. Our place at Paradise didn't burn. We sold. Today I bought 150 feet of fire hose and a 160 gpm pump. For our 24000 gallon pool

thanks Juan!

Damn that fire popped fast! We are getting all the smoke here in Pioneer. We were at 98+ degrees yesterday at 3500'... Stay safe! Go CNG Go! Thanks, Juan!

Down here in SD we have a smaller burn that started yesterday, the Japatul Valley fire. It's currently 4000 acres and 0% contained. There is a TFR in place near one of the practice areas. Hopefully both are contained soon.

This is the only channel that youtube will show in my feed, that is not a video ran by the Alphabet News monopoly. I love this channel, followed since Orville Dam overflow damage!

I used to live in North fork California going to Mammoth pool there’s only one road that is paved accessible for trucks two lane paved road no place to be trapped

Palo Alto is now 99 degrees at 1:30pm

Juan, appreciate all you do... in a state who's officials tie the hands of those responsible bedhind their backs... what more can we expect? Time to rethink who is in charge in People's Republic of California.

Amazing. I once camped at that very campground at Mammoth Pools. Crazy to think that it's just devastated now...

Scary stuff ... thanks for covering it, Juan!

Welcome back juan

Thank you Juan. Prayers for everyone in harm's way and fire crews.

Thanks for the update.

Excellent and timely coverage. Thx, stay safe!

Thanks for sharing.

We're getting a nor'easter tomorrow due to that low pressure system coming in from Canada, that'll be causing snow in Denver as well. So I would expect if that low gets into No Cal, then expect a reversal.

Thank you, outstanding report. It happens to be my favorite camping area a bit north of the fire. I hope they find resources to throw at it. It seems darn close to North Fork!

Gtsy Juan thank you for the updates I have friends and family in California

The CalFire Twitter feeds are the best sources for current information.

Great update...... thanks

I flew fire patrol in a Cessna 172 on behalf of PG&E in 2018. Logged about 500 hours in a box area bounded by Auburn-Truckee (north boundary) and Friant VOR to east of Shaver Lake (south boundary). My observation? ONE HUNDRED PERCENT FOREST MISMANAGEMENT IS TO BLAME FOR THESE FIRES. I've seen EVERY stitch of timber in that area, and the amount of dead/standing wood is atrocious. Sacramento should be held criminally liable.

Another outstanding and up-to-the-minute report Juan. However, as a 28 year USFS Wildland Fire retiree (and US Army Paratrooper, 82nd ABN DV) my suspicion is the Chinook crews were California ARMY National Guard- not Air Guard. Please correct me if Cal Air Guard is now operating Chinooks.

Sierra Nevadas are my fave......what a place if youve never been. And folks....no matter where you live....plant a tree a year....small or big whatever you can afford

Thanks for the update better info than NBC

Nfic.gov National Interagency Fire Center Juan, you could prob get a guided tour here, incl smokejumpers. I toured in 2004, they’re a relatively small operation with huge responsibilities, incl air resource allocation & equip cache drops for large incidents w/IMTs.

My daughter had just moved to California, when the SCU fires were burning, almost had to evacuate but it was called off. She is also at a higher elevation.

This fire is bad ! We had to get evacuated from our campgrounds at Shaver Lake. Also my family members from Bass Lake had to be evacuated today

Those are all the places I spent camping as a kid. There were some fires there in the '60s also...

Camp Oljato, a scout camp on Lake Huntington is under threat at the moment. I remember during our fire drills we would all gather along the water front and as a last resort were told to go into the lake.

Great update, those fires sound very savage

Great information Juan !

Juan, love the new logo!

Hi from Reunion Juan. Thanks for the coverage, just hope Sierrea Nevada will not turn into Sierra Quemada !

Thanks Juan I have been trying to get info on this all day. I’m camping in Big Pine,CA

The peckinpaw fire was actually caused by pyrocumulonimbus lightning. I was to the south of cascadel woods on south side of the river watching this beast move through kinsman flats. 2 days later it was literally at my back door in meadow lakes west of shaver.

Hey Juan long time follower enjoy your channel for information. The origin of the fire started near Camp Sierra between Shaver and Huntington Lakes and then took a run down into the San Joaquin River drainage and then just exploded after that. There's still alot of dead trees due to drought, Bark Beetle and overgrowth/underbrush throughout the years. Thanks

So you are home? Praise God. I bought property in Washington...for now... There is a Fire Warning here (in the west Cascades) until Monday night.

Another great presentation; thank you, Blancolirio!

Great job by YOU!

Hello Juan, Good to see you back in great health sir... Unfortunately these times outside are insane and sad to see 😔 2020 will be a year to write off 100%

The Blancolirio Studio needs a heavier duty drone to fly in windy conditions to get better shots of the clouds-- assuming you are not in a no-fly area. Stay safe- and the great work!

As of 9 PM Sep 6 the fire is 74,000 acres. That's like an additional 38,000 acres yesterday afternoon. It's location tells me the fire isnt going to run out of things to burn anytime soon. Didnt they know this is just a really bad location to put a forest fire?

We have the excessive heat warning until tomorrow night. Vegas hit 114 today, and even Kingman, Az where I live hit 110. I don't know about Cali but we're under a wind advisory for Tuesday for gusts up to 45 mph so I don't know if that fire is going to impacted by that. Stay safe everyone!

My sister hiked out of Yosemite from a 2+ week JMT trek literally the day before this fire started. The smoke must be horrible for anyone in the Sierras. It 106 at my moms house in Santa Barbara, which is on the coast.

Awesome report as usual but with just one error. The Air National Guard was not involved in this operation. That was the ARMY National Guard based out of Fresno and Stockton.

I live in Nevada, kinda East of there, the smoke is horrible, 1/2 mile vis.

115 degrees F in Tujunga, CA 08/06/2020 (Just north of downtown LA) I've lived here for 50 plus years and have never seen it this hot.

I find getting timely ingo on fires is to listen to the local scanners.

Woke up to ash on our cars again in El Dorado Hills today. This has to be the craziest August/September ever.

I live just north of Yosemite in the Stanislaus national forest around 5000 feet. I really hope we dont get any fires up here because its extremely dry right now.

Another resource you can use to get info on this fire is the National Fire viewer which provides infrared data on active parts of the fire. maps.nwcg.gov/sa/#/%3F/%3F/37.3604/-119.556/11 Red means less than 24 hour old heat. Orange is older and yellow is oldest. But it has a legend. All this stuff is available on the Northern or Souther California Coordination Center websites. Easy to google.

Well at least we don’t have to worry about snow hitting Colorado after Labor Day. O, wait..........