Flying Past A Wildfire Big Enough To Make Its Own Weather - Park Fire, 2024, California
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Published 2024-07-28
Carefully keeping clear of the TFRs I flew past it to appreciate the size of this massive event, the largest this year, and one of the largest in California's history.
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All Comments (21)
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I gotta say, this illustrates the magnitude of the fire so much better than the usual ground footage of burned surface and area in numbers. Very useful application for a small plane with a Scott Manley at the steering yoke. đź‘Ť
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“Fly safe!”
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Hello scott, glad to see you do a video on the fire as it sits right now im living in a car because of this fire.
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4:12 holy cow that's an incredible view of the fire and its progression. I never knew there's a way to view wild fire like that.
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Scott, i live in chico.... I literally watched this fire start about 3 acres and within 3 hours had taken over the entire side of those hills. Several friends have lost everything... i was in evacuation zone. The guy who started it is a convicted child predator..... Ive counted as many as 12 helicopters and aircraft in the air at one time. Thank you for covering this.
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I've hiked the area that fire is in, it was gorgeous.
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Welcome to Wildland Fire. These clouds can rise up so high they call what's called a Column Collapse. It turns the fire sideways and can create (what's called) a FireStorm. The flame-front turns on its side as the winds press it from vertical to horizontal (in relation to the land).
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The tanker operations Cal Fire works is seriously impressive! I've been working at the local FBO in KCIC helping keep them fueled, and the cadence they're able to maintain for hours at a time between landing, reloading on fire retardant, and taking off is amazing! Love the views you were able to capture Scott, really puts into perspective how close the fire got to some people's homes, and I never realized how close the fire came to us at the airport
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I live in Paradise and we were under an evacuation warning, but the winds didn't change and the fire went north....we don't need another devastating fire in Paradise.
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It’s not all wilderness to the north; the fire is heading directly toward Shingletown.
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Scott, thanks for sharing. Thank you to all the men and women working the line to help contain this beast. Glad to hear only minor injuries - so far. Let's keep it that way. And to everyone displaced/impacted hope things are OK on the other side. Be safe, everyone.
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Glad to see this covered by you Scott! Because of the guy who committed this arson my soon-to-be step-father is out there right now fighting the fire Its a shame ppl do the stuff they do
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As a North State local who's been watching this thing grow for days, this has been an amazing video. I've seen plenty of fires this big before, but this is actually the first major event my kids have personally seen, so having the satellite and other views to show them was super informative for them!
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The bottom right of that satellite footage, where the air is rippling over ridges and producing temporary clouds above and downwind of each, is very beautiful.
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A firestorm is the scariest thing I've ever seen. A tornado of rising air full of fire rising thousands of feet into the air. I saw one once in the San Gabriel Mountains, God bless the firefighters on the ground and in the air.
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In high humidity areas you don't even need a big fire to produce clouds like that. I've seen rain clouds form over the top of agricultural burns where they burn the remains of a harvested field to return nitrogen to the soil and to remove weeds. One time I saw an actual thunderstorm form over a cooling tower at a refinery on the gulf coast. It was being feed by a giant cooling tower releasing insane amounts of hot steam into the sky.
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It really is mind-blowing, and really making me dread the peak fire season in the southern half of the state. Goodness knows the fuel load down here is massive after two really wet winters and then that tropical storm last August putting a damper on the 2023 fire season. Major love for all the fire crews and the fire pilots fighting these monsters!
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I also live in California and have been following this and other fires, and this is the best view I've seen so far. I'm envious of that small plane of yours, what a fantastic view you provided! Also thank you for noting that you were being careful of the local flight restrictions, it's great to hear pilots say that when getting these shots.
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Great video topic Scott, very cool footage. I'm a mechanic on one of the air tankers operating in that area, if I see you on the ramp in Chico or Redding I'll wave hello! đź‘‹
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I live 50 miles from the second largest fire. Yesterday the smoke was the worst I've ever seen visibility was 1/2 mile. I have multiple air purifiers running in my house at full speed and it still smells like a camp fire.
