Front porch photos of the chippy creek fire. (Seeley Lake, Big Sky: school, cabinet)

[rickers]

Here's a link to my pictures of the Chippy creek fire in the southern Cabinet Mountains. The white billowing ones we're taken yesterday at varying intervals with a several hour break between the white billowing ones and the reddish sunset ones. These pics were taken from my front porch on the northwest edge of Hot Springs. I'm glad that I have green lawns surrounding my house.

Picasa Web Albums - Rick - Chippy Creek ... (broken link)

[rickers]

Fire update; It went from 7,000 acres to 18,000 acres in one day. It's on the Flathead reservation now.

[rambrush]

With the smoke laying over like that it looks like it had good wind pushing it a long.

Great pics

[grannymontanny]

Originally Posted by rickers

Fire update; It went from 7,000 acres to 18,000 acres in one day. It's on the Flathead reservation now.

sure does get scarey as it gets closer. the smoke is really bad here in lakeside,we woke up to ash all over the patio furniture and cars. im sure its just as bad there ,or worse in hot springs for you. stay safe

[rickers]

Holy Smokes ! I'm looking at this site, and I'm looking at the smoke. I just don't want to be looking at the fire.
Web address to the site is; http://www.inciweb.org/incident/893/
It's up to 36,140 acres already, not sure of the containment .

[moodyblue]

This is turning out to be a nightmare fire season. Our family's cabin near Seeley Lake is about to go up in smoke as we speak. I don't think they are even trying to contain some of the fires, but rather are waiting for a "season-ending" event.... like a snowstorm or something. Yikes. That could be awhile.

[jimj]

From what I understand the fires are too eratic to even attempt containment much less structure defense. All I keep hearing is that they have not seen fire behavior like this before. I wonder if all this environmentalism and roadless rules are worth what is now happening....

[rickers]

There is a big meeting today at the Hot Springs school to discuss this fire.
It's up to 40,000 acres with only 5% containment. It is projected to move in the direction of our town and folks here are freaking out.

[wright]

Hi, My inlaws are in their 80's and have a log cabin on Big Sky Lake close to Seeley. They are really worried, does anybody know what's going on with the fire around there? Thanks in advance!

[jimj]

According to the news this am the fire layed down pretty good overnight and they made some headway in stopping it. Threatened higer winds this afternood so we will wait and see. I suggest going to the inciweb site listed above for more info.