Prescribed Burns Again, Cal Fire Caught in Blatant Lie Re: Emigrant Fire
Sept. 20, 2021
We awoke to incredibly smoky skies but no air quality advisory. The weather is very wild, with gusty winds coming from the east currently, but only in this area. For the most part, the jet stream is moving from northwest to southeast today, however, the media is focusing on Santa Ana winds, which are hot winds from the desert. That is not, in fact, what is happening today. The winds are cool and are only reversed in this mountain area due to a major OR shift in the atmosphere.
Our local media is playing up an extinguished wildfire along I-5, most likely to account for the smoke which came in overnight from a prescribed burn in the still closed Los Padres National Forest. The Emigrant Fire started on Sept. 17 and grew to 255 acres. The containment is still increasing, but the acres burned has not increased in days, so it is clear that once again, Cal Fire and the Forest Service are reporting only on the amount of a ditch dug, not the actual fire itself.
The Emigrant Fire update screenshots are from the Sierra Sun Times. The first one is from Sept. 18, when the fire was new and the second one is from today. It went from 10% to 61% contained in two full days, yet only 30 more acres burned? Also, why does Cal Fire’s website say that the Emigrant Fire is not a Cal Fire incident as of this morning, when my post from two days ago has a screenshot of the same Cal Fire map saying that it was not an incident as of three days ago, Sept. 17? What could have prompted Cal Fire to falsify or change these dates? Could this have something to do with covering up today’s prescribed burn and attributing the smoke to a non-existent wildfire?
The other major fire news in California is the General Sherman Show, or the KNP Complex Fire, in the Sequoia National Forest. First off, this area received abundant monsoonal rainfall this summer, none of which was reported in the news, but you can look back over July and August on this blog to see weather maps. It is very hard to light wet foliage. It is very likely that prescribed burns are also taking place in this forest and we are being told something else. The forest is closed and they don’t want anyone flying drones over it and finding out what’s going on. Whether it’s a real wildfire or a controlled burn, it will certainly be out by the weekend. The 7 day precipitation outlook is very favorable for California. We will be seeing statewide rain starting on Friday, with the heaviest portion over the Sequoia area.