{"id":305,"date":"2011-08-31T16:59:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T23:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/?p=305"},"modified":"2011-08-31T16:59:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T23:59:20","slug":"motor-fire-near-yosemite-entrance-august-25-2011-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golubphoto.com\/blog\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"Motor Fire Near Yosemite Entrance, August 25, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last Thursday I was working on a blog about my first season photographing the NFL, when I got an email from my friend Wes Schultz.\u00c2\u00a0 Wes sent me a URL from Wildlanfire.com that said there was a fire near El Portal and they were requesting recourses.\u00c2\u00a0 I could see a big column of smoke from my balcony.\u00c2\u00a0 So, I started getting my camera equipment ready and pulled all of my fire gear together.\u00c2\u00a0 They named the fire the Motor Fire because a motor home caught fire on highway 140 starting fires on both sides of the Merced River.<\/p>\n

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Before I left the house about 3:30 pm, I photographed this column of smoke.\u00c2\u00a0 We are looking east from my house.\u00c2\u00a0 The smoke blocks the view of Yosemite National Park.<\/p>\n

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After driving nearly 60 miles I was on Highway 140 close to the fire.\u00c2\u00a0 With my 400mm and a 1.4 extender, I could photograph the Helicopters dropping water directly on the fire.\u00c2\u00a0 If you have been there before, it is between Savages Trading Post and the Cedar Lodge.<\/p>\n

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I continued up river where I found helicopter 404 from the Columbia Helitack base scooping water out of the Merced River.<\/p>\n

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404 has a new paint job because CDF, California Department of Forestry is now called Cal Fire.<\/p>\n

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The Cal Fire helicopter pilots are amazing.<\/p>\n

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Cal Fire 404 put water down in drainage to slow progress of the fire.<\/p>\n

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On the way out to make deadline, I could see the fire had reached Trumbull Peak.\u00c2\u00a0 That gave me an idea where the fire was going.\u00c2\u00a0 The next day I planed to got to Trumbull Peak from the old Coulterville to Yosemite stagecoach toll road.\u00c2\u00a0 This would be my last change to photograph the fire because Saturday and Sunday I was covering NFL football game.<\/p>\n

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I got a late start but I could see there was still smoke rising.\u00c2\u00a0 To say the road was a little rougher that I remember is an understatement.\u00c2\u00a0 My new rattle loose and I have to use Duck-Tape of keep it from falling off.\u00c2\u00a0 I had to ride up on the bank of the road along with a little brush smashing.\u00c2\u00a0 My Truck has the scars to prove it made the trip. \u00c2\u00a0The next day the Forest Service closed the road for safety reasons.\u00c2\u00a0 By the time I got to just below the Peak, I met the Fulton Hot Shots come down the road.\u00c2\u00a0 The fire came up over the Trumbull Peak Lookout and they decided to fall back to where I took this image of the Motor fire jumping the Peak.<\/p>\n

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