[UPDATE 9:05 p.m.] Smokejumpers at Wildfire in Trinity County
The red marker shows the rough location of the fire.
A fire has broken out about one and a half miles from the Horse Ridge Lookout in Trinity County between the lookout and the South Fork of the Trinity River–south of Silver Flat and north of Chinquapin Butte. The fire is approximately one acre, according to the Redding Interagency Command Center.
According to the Shasta Trinity National Forest Service Twitter feed, “Smokejumpers and aviation support are responding to the Silver fire near Horse Ridge Lookout about 3 miles ENE of Ruth, CA. No structures are threatened.”
There are seven jumpers on the ground plus copter 506, according to scanner traffic.
UPDATE 1 p.m.: The fire is now at five acres, according to the Redding Interagency Command Center. Scanner traffic indicates that two type 2 Cal Fire tankers and one Type 1 tanker released their loads of fire suppressant on the flames. Fire command is flying in crews from the Hayfork Airport .
UPDATE 1:14 p.m.: Here’s a photo of the smoke when the fire was only reported to be 1 to two acres.
UPDATE 2:16 p.m.: The Shasta Trinity National Forest Twitter account just posted the following,
https://twitter.com/ShastaTrinityNF/status/1008070290822160384/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fkymkemp.com%2F
Note: Though the tweet states that this is southwest of Ruth earlier posts said eastnortheast and the latitude and longitude indicate it is almost due east of the town of Ruth.
UPDATE 9:05 p.m.: The Shasta Trinity National Forest just tweeted, “Air Attack has estimated the fire at 8 acres. All aircraft is off the fire for the night. Shasta Lake Hotshot Crew, 7 jumpers and 4 rapellers remain on the fire this evening.”
UPDATE 6/18: The Shasta Trinity National Forest tweeted, “The #SilverFire has been contained at just over 8 acres.”
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Be fire ready and fire safe, everyone. At this rate it’s going to be a looooong fire season.
^Truth. Early season for fires.
Even the shortest fire season has been way too long for me!
Have lightning out there yesterday ?
I’m more than a few miles from ruth/zenia but I’m pretty darn sure no lightning was out there.
There was lightning in that area and the Yolla Bolly wilderness yesterday..
There wasn’t even a cloud in the sky anywhere near there yesterday. Hard to have lightning without clouds.
Yeah, my view was a blue sky, but I did turn my head away a couple times…
Big time wind storm at Ruth Lake too.
I’m am heartened by the news they sent in smokejumpers and air tankers right away. Fingers crossed they keep it up and get it out before it turns into another monster.
Some lighting strikes can cause tree roots to smolder for weeks. I don’t know the cause of this fire, but this could be a possibility.
Very true, there definitely has been sporadic lightning over the last few weeks in trinity.
look at the brown of the trees to the right of the smoke picture, looks like something has been happening at that spot for a few weeks?
Or a dairy job.
i hate to hear this .. last year it was hayfork , ca. or the year before that it was even in town .
It could be spontaneous combustion allso nature does soom strange stuff sometimes
Probably a sleeper from an old strike.
Every year at this time reports like this remind me why I am grateful to have access to this site.
I try to stay on top of the wildfires. I know how important they are to the people who live nearby and, with smoke and vacation issues to everyone.
Thank you, Kym. Any updates today?
8.1 acres now. But that is all I can find out.
Thank you so much for helping by keeping us informed.
I could not find latitude and longitude anywhere. Thanks so much, Kym, for helping by keeping us informed.
40 17.556, -123 15.396
Come on people wake up, The fires have been consuming our western forests at such a fast pace and burning so hot and complete that it makes it very hard for them to rebound. We need to start using advanced forms of fire suppression which there are many. One that works very well is Dropping large amounts of inexpensive and non toxic liquid Nitrogen. Liquid Nitrogen is inert but has the ability to cool the fire drastically and quickly and at the same time expands to eight hundred times into Nitrogen gas that now starves the fire of oxygen by displacing it with the Nitrogen gas. To see this in action watch the backyard scientist pouring Liquid Nitrogen on his pool that is on fire with gasoline, It snuffs it out instantaneously while cooling the temp from several hundred degrees to sixty degrees almost instantly. I will post more of my inventions later for all, use them people.