Fire Photos

Following is a selected set of fire photos that emphasize the need for creation of defensible space round our individual homes as well as Incline Village and Crystal Bay. I took12 of the 18 photos. If I did not take the photo, I listed the source of the photo.

1: Ed Smith teaching a class on wildfire fuels just above Crystal Bay, April 2004. Lets hope our Slide Mountain Crew removes this fuel before a major fire starts in Kings Beach.

2: Open house at our Fire Station (#11) on June 6th. Battalion Chief, Greg McKay and Pete King doing booth duty at the Neighbors for Defensible Space II Booth and Dick Trossen (in yellow shirt) talking to two local residents.

3: Several houses burned down at Lake Arrowhead last fall when the Old Fire 2003 came to town.

4: What is left of several houses in Lake Arrowhead, 2003

5: The second day of the Waterfall Fire, 2004. Photo of fire as the fire comes out of Ash Canyon, north east into Vicee canyon and eventually into Lakeview Estates. (photo by Assistant Fire Chief, Mike Brown)

6: An up close shot of the Waterfall Fire, 2004 (photo by Assistant Fire Chief, Mike Brown)

7: John Tyson's, TV Channel 8 reporter, Ford Escape did not escape (pun intended) from the fire blow up on the first day of the fire. (photo by Assistant Fire Chief, Mike Brown)

8: This photo was taken right after the fire blow up on the first day of the Waterfall Fire, 2004. Note that the house in the background is still on fire. (photo by Assistant Fire Chief, Mike Brown)

9: This photo was taken 8 days after the start of the Waterfall Fire, 2004, on the outskirts of Carson City.

10: This house did not burn down, just the car plus tree & vegitation far from the house.

11: The houses did not burn, due to good defensible space, but the vegetation between the houses did burn.

12: A burned down house in the Kings Canyon development.

13: A house that did not burn near the top of the Timberline development. How would you like to look at this for the next 20+ years?

14: None of the houses in Lake View burned down. This ravine is on the eastern edge of the development and was saved by lighting a backfire in the ravine as the fire started to come over the top of the mountain.

15: A sign in the Lake View development showing their appreciation for the firefighter's effort in defending their house from the Waterfall Fire.

16: Another home owner expressing their appreciation on preventing their home from the wildland fire.

17: This photo was taken in 2002 at the Oregon Biscuit fire, which burned over 500,000 of our precious forest in the south eastern Oregon. (photographer unknown)

18: Firefighters fighting the Oregon 2002 Biscuit Fire, using a very large sling shot to set backfires while not endangering the lives of the firefighters. (photographer unknown)