Incident Media Photographs

THREE RIVERS, California (Sept. 10,2024) - Resource Advisors (READ) perform a variety of critical tasks during a wildfire. From marking sensitive locations so firefighters know to implement proper mitigations to rehabilitating sensitive areas impacted by suppression efforts.

On the Coffee Pot Fire, resource advisors have worked with the fire’s tribal liaison to identify and protect culturally sensitive areas impacted by the fire.

Shown in the photo, one of the resource advisors with fire line qualifications (REAF), Samantha Young moves brush and limbs to provide an extra buffer of protection to a culturally sensitive area. The area around Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park is the ancestral homelands of the Yokuts, Mono (Monache), Tübatulabal, Paiute, and Western Shoshone Indigenous peoples.

Taken on Sept 3, 2024. 

THREE RIVERS, California (Sept. 9, 2024) – A Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane, (a twin-engine heavy-lift helicopter capable of carrying up to 20,000 pounds) drops retardant along ridgelines on the northwest flank of the Coffee Pot Fire. Fire personnel on the ground work with air resources to identify potential hotspots on fires or locations that need additional retardant/cooling to slow the fire’s progression allowing on-the-ground-resources the opportunity to actively engage the fire. CAIIMT 15 photo by Benjamin Cossel

Taken in Division Echo. 

Smoky Air at the Coffee Pot Fire near Mineral King Road.