Just an up-date on the Basin Fire:
7:00AM June 28 Update: Fire Actively Burning in Little Sur Watershed
Overnight thermal imaging shows vigorous fire activity along broad fronts in both the north and south. In the north, the fire appears to have spilled over the ridge into the Little Sur Watershed in a line stretching from the Window all the way to the headwaters of the South Fork Little Sur. The active burning continues from this area, back through Ventana Creek and across the main stem of the Big Sur River just above Ventana Camp. In the south, an active fire front appears to extend from low in Anderson Canyon, past Burns and Buck creeks and through the upper headwaters of Hot Springs Canyon - while on the other side of the Coast Ridge the fire appears to be descending rapidly toward Lost Valley. The satellite also found continued heat in the upper Tassajara Creek watershed and in McWay Canyon.
June 28th, 2008
Current thermal image data
Current thermal image data file download from here: http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/kml/conus.kmz - This is a GoogleEarth file (earth.google.com) - if you're connection is still good that is. (Our's is patchy here in Palo Colorado Canyon. We're sort of out of the fire, but on the edge of the frying pan)