Not necessarily good news....

From tonights Union Democrat:

“We may have to go over two or three ridges away from Mount Knight to find a safe anchor site,” Santiago said.

Crews are battling multiple spot fires, she added. There is no estimated date of containment.

The firefighters’ main objective is to not let the fire cross the Middle Fork of the Stanislaus River and spread into Calaveras County, said Lee Bentley, public information officer sent in from the Southern California Fire Interagency Management Team.

The broad plan is to keep the fire south of the river, north of Contention Ridge, west of Sandbar Flat Campground and east of Forebay, Bentley said.


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Not really good news, anything further south of Contention starts getting problematic.

Looked at Google Earth - not sure where Forebay would be. Contention Ridge is just to the North of Italian Bar Rd above Jupiter. Sandbar Flat is in the eastern side of the river canyon. So far the fire seems to be staying in the river canyon. Hoping it stays there

Mt. Knight Fire

Here's another website with good information about the fire:

http://www.inciweb.org/incident/1757/

Mt. Knight Fire

You can log onto twitter and type in mt knight for updates.

here is a link to a google overlay showing the Knight fire location http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/kml/conus.kmz - looks to be about situated about 3 miles from us looking north from the top of Star Ridge
Tuol. County Incident Radio Feed: http://www.incidentfeed.com/
Good info from various folks in the know here: http://www.wildlandfire.com/hotlist/showthread.phpt=10017
http://www.wildlandfire.com/hotlist/showthread.php?t=10023
webcam at Mt Eliz looking towards mt knight: http://www.sonnet.com/bob/wsp/
from MODIS @ http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/:

Burnt Area: 275 Acres Location: Tuolumne County, CA (10 Miles North of Twain Harte Calif.) Cause: Under Investigation Incident Team Type: IMT Type 4 Team Leader: Bob Shindelar Containment Status: 0% contained) Expected Containment: Unknown Fuels: Timber and brush
Extreme 0.00 267PRIM

here's a good pic from yesterday
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32160940/ns/local_news-sacramento_ca/

here's the latest though
http://www.uniondemocrat.com/2009072797362/News/Local-News/Knight-Fire-grows-to-275-acres
http://www.mymotherlode.com/news/local/news_detail.php?ID=399442
http://www.mymotherlode.com/news/local/news_detail.php?ID=400141

Fire North East of Mt. Knight

Please post any information that you might have on the fire.