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Asset ID:

dc50c4e7-f8f6-4069-9935-4d5921e90473

Title:

Hot Springs wildfire, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, summer 2004

Description:

These photos display various views of the Hot Springs Fire on the east Kern Plateau in the wilderness of Sequoia National Park. This wildfire, started by lightning on August 12, 2004, and declared out on October 18, 2004, burned approximately 332 acres. Fire was in Jeffrey Pine, Western White Pine, and Montane Chaparral fuel types, and fire behavior was predominantly limited to smoldering and creeping. On several days small runs were observed in montane chaparral. Hot Springs Fire was monitored on the ground by Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks fire monitors for a period of three weeks, and for the remainder was monitored by helicopter aerial recon.

Image Details:

torch

Publisher:

U.S. National Park Service

Comment:

SEKI Fire Name : Hot Springs Fire || SEKI Fire No. : 20040037

Copyright:

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Constraints Information:

Public domain

Keywords:

fuel types , smoldering , creeping , aerial reconnaissance , smoke , torching

Controlled Keywords:

Wildfires, ()
, Lightning-caused fires, ()
, Fire monitoring, ()
, Wildland fire use projects, ()
, Helicopters in fire management, ()

Resource Type:

Image

NPS Units:

Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Code: SEKI

Locations:

Kern Canyon, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California
Latitude: 36.4705, Longitude: -118.393333