{"id":150,"date":"2011-05-31T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/?p=150"},"modified":"2011-05-30T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T03:30:00","slug":"2008-telegraph-fire-near-yosemite-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"2008 Telegraph Fire Near Yosemite National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I became a volunteer for Cal Fire.\u00c2\u00a0 With my friend Wes Schultz, I will be photographing wildland fires this season.\u00c2\u00a0 The last big wildland fire I photographed was the Telegraph Fire in 2008.\u00c2\u00a0 Lucky for me there wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t much hiking involved because both of my knees were bone on bone.\u00c2\u00a0 In May 2009, I had bilateral total knee replacements, so I am ready to go again.<\/p>\n<p>Friday, July 25, 2008, some guys were target shooting and their bullets hit rocks that sparked a fire.\u00c2\u00a0 The Telegraph Fire started at 3:15 p.m. near Telegraph and Sherlock roads in the Midpines area.\u00c2\u00a0 By 7:00 p.m. that night, my neighbors and I were photographing the first big flames ripping up Telegraph Hill.\u00c2\u00a0 I spent seven days photographing the fire working for Getty, Polaris and Associated Press.\u00c2\u00a0 I posted most of my images to <a href=\"http:\/\/algolub.photoshelter.com\/gallery\/Telegraph-Fire-2008\/G00006cZHaRgdE2M\/\" target=\"_blank\">Photoshelter<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Here are some of the images that tell the story.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-151\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=151\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-151\" title=\"001_Tele_2008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/001_Tele_2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>July 30, 2008<\/p>\n<p>A Cal Fire bomber drops retardant on Division L at the leading edge of the fire. Division L was threatening Greeley Hill.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-152\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=152\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-152\" title=\"002_Tele_2008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/002_Tele_2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>July 28, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Horses on Jenkins Ranch off Bull Creek Road are oblivious to a smoke plume from a blow up at Branch Three of the fire.\u00c2\u00a0 This part of the fire is on the north side of the Merced River and is heading toward the community of Greeley Hill.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-153\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=153\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-153\" title=\"003_Tele_2008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/003_Tele_2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"575\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>July 28, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Helicopter drops water on a spot fire off Bull Creek Road.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-154\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=154\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-154\" title=\"004_Tele_2008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/004_Tele_2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"403\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>July 26, 2008<\/p>\n<p>On the second day of the fire, a DC-10 tanker drops retardant on Mt. Bullion ridge to protect cell phone towers.\u00c2\u00a0 I photographed this image from Highway 49 between Mt. Bullion and Bear Valley.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-155\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=155\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-155\" title=\"005_Tele_2008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/005_Tele_2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>July 28, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Branch Two of the fire throws a plume of smoke and ash into the sky over the Merced River Canyon near sundown.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-156\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=156\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-156\" title=\"006_Tele_2008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/006_Tele_2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"519\" height=\"575\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>July 29, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Guide plane leads retardant bomber on Division M in an attempt to slow down the progression of the fire up Halls Gulch toward the Greeley Hill community.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-157\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=157\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-157\" title=\"007_Tele_2008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/007_Tele_2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"278\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>July 30, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Day begins as a California Department of Corrections fire crew heads out to cut fire line on Division L.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-158\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=158\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-158\" title=\"008_Tele_2008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/008_Tele_2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>July 28, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Fire rips up a hill in part of Division M on Branch Three.\u00c2\u00a0 This part of the fire is on the north side of the Merced River and was heading toward the community of Greeley Hill.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-159\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=159\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-159\" title=\"009_Tele_2008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/009_Tele_2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"575\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>July 30, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Erickson Sky Crane drops water on the leading edge of the Telegraph Fire.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-160\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=160\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-160\" title=\"010_Tele_2008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/010_Tele_2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"575\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>July 30, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Captain Roy Johns of the Union City, California Fire Department watches burn-out on Division N.\u00c2\u00a0 When the fire gets too hot, he will have his firefighters use hoses to cool down the fire. Division N was in the northeast portion of the fire in the Stanislaus National Forest.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-161\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=161\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-161\" title=\"011_Tele_2008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/011_Tele_2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"473\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>July 30, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Kern County Hot Shot fire crew returns after a shift of cutting fire line on Division L.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-162\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=162\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-162\" title=\"012_Tele_2008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/012_Tele_2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"575\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>July 30, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Union City firefighters use hose on trees at Division N to cool down fire during burn-out.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-163\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=163\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-163\" title=\"013_Tele_2008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/013_Tele_2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>July 29, 2008<\/p>\n<p>A Kern County fire truck moves along the firebreak as things heat up in Division M of Branch Three.\u00c2\u00a0 In the background, a fire blows up near Halls Gulch and Bull Creek Road.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-164\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=164\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-164\" title=\"014_Tele_2008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/014_Tele_2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"575\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>San Bernardino firefighter takes a moment to get information at Division L on the leading edge of the fire.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-165\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=165\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-165\" title=\"015_Tele_2008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/015_Tele_2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>July 26, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Standing on Highway 49 between Mt. Bullion and Bear Valley, I use my 10mm lens to capture smoke rising over Mount Bullion and Fremont Ridge.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-166\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=166\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-166\" title=\"016_Tele_2008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/016_Tele_2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"575\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>July 29, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Cal Fire firefighters watch blow-up at Division M of Branch Three as the fire bumps over the line.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-167\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=167\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-167\" title=\"017_Tele_2008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/017_Tele_2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"575\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>July 31, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Bomber drops retardant to pre-treat a hot spot near Bull Creek Road on Division M.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-168\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=168\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-168\" title=\"018_Tele_2008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/018_Tele_2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"575\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>July 30, 2008<\/p>\n<p>California Department of Corrections fire crew takes lunch after cutting fire line on Division L.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I became a volunteer for Cal Fire.\u00c2\u00a0 With my friend Wes Schultz, I will be photographing wildland fires this season.\u00c2\u00a0 The last big wildland fire I photographed was the Telegraph Fire in 2008.\u00c2\u00a0 Lucky for me there wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/?p=150\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,60,4,9],"tags":[74,27,75,172,186,174,187,57,181,179,180,76,71,70,167,69,183,173,176,184,188,73,330,182,178,65,177,185,66,29,72,175],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california-west","category-fire","category-news","category-yosemite","tag-air-force","tag-al-golub","tag-army","tag-bear-valley-california","tag-blm","tag-cal-fire","tag-chp","tag-coulterville","tag-dc-10-air-tanker","tag-dozers","tag-fire-engines","tag-fire-fighting","tag-forest-fire","tag-grass-fire","tag-greeley-hill","tag-helicopter","tag-hose","tag-july-2008","tag-mariposa","tag-merced-river","tag-mt-bullion","tag-national-guard","tag-photography","tag-retardant","tag-sherlock-road","tag-sierra-foothills","tag-telegraph-road","tag-us-forest-service","tag-water-drops","tag-western","tag-wildland-fire","tag-yosemite-national-park"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}