Incident Media Photographs

A shovel lifts the residual brush into a tub grinder. The tub grinder chips the material to be spread across retired log deck areas. 

Structure protection was finished around Crescent Lake. Firefighters blew needles away and removed dead snags and brush around cabins, homes, and other structures to create defensible space.

A dozer spreads the wood chips across the retired log deck areas. These wood chips will help prevent erosion and serve as organic mulch to help the site revegetate.

A feller buncher cut logs to length and places them in piles in a log deck area.

The retired logging decks are covered with wood chips from the residual brush in the shaded fuel break process. 

Firefighters used backpack blowers to blow needles away from structures around Crescent Lake. Removing flammable materials away helps minimize the likelyhood of flames or surface fire touching the structure.

Along with the planning and construction of the shaded fuel break, heavy equipment is used to move salvageable timber that will be hauled out of the area and marketed for sale. 

During the construction of the shaded fuel break, heavy equipment has and important role to safely remove and transport salvageable timber from the shaded fuel break area.  

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During a day trip to the Red Fire within the Diamond Peak Wilderness, the Eastern Area Incident Management Team's fire behavior analyst captured this photo of the Red Fire's activity. The Red fire is slowly growing day by day. It consumes about a dozen trees daily. In what firefighters call single tree torching, embers from one tree make their way to the forest floor. When an ember hits a pocket of duff ( grasses, downed needles, and branches), the new fuel source intensifies the fire. As it heats up, it reaches higher into the ladder fuels (limbs and moss) and climbs higher up the tree until the fire reaches the canopy, new embers drop to the ground, and the process starts again.

Landscape view of the shaded fuel break constructed in between Odell Lake and Crescent Lake.  

Ground view of the Red fire within the Diamond Peak Wilderness.