@123eldest It's interesting that a lot of people don't realize just how much water vapor is contained in a smoke plume, but it sure is more visible when it condenses and turns white at the higher altitudes... THanks for checking it out! =)
I shot probably 50 clips/sequences during this event - it was a spectacular sight and I'm glad I was able to get a few good ones. Thanks for checking it out! :-)
Its a Turbo Commander 690A. We were based at Fox in Lancaster. (I have been released from the fire and am heading home Sat AM to await the next one)
Tail number N24GT. I slow to 140-150 knots when "turning circles" as we call it. When I need to get up and go, I have the thrust available that takes me up to 290 knots. To calculate statute MPH multiply knots by 1.14
Eyes and ears of the incident commander. Functions as a sort of AWACS over the fire coordinating tankers/helicopters, contact with ground personnel. Identifies hazards, targets, objectives. Implements daily priorities from IC
Interesting - thanks for the info! It DID look more to me like aerial observation than anything else - especially with the apparently very low airspeed and upwind flight pattern. Out of curiousity what was the aircraft type and airspeed?
you need to go back to school if you think i'm wrong with what I'm talking about. The fire is not in forest. But im not going to get into it with you. your probably one of the dumb asses who would stay and try to protect his house when a wild fire comes. I really do feel sorry for people like you who think they know everything about wild fires. have a good one. im done talking about this.
I know you didn't answer the question. You're wrong about the Station Fire in the National FOREST, AND the fact that fire DOES burn well above 6000'. You've probably never even BEEN in the San Gabriel Mountains. The facts contradict your so-called knowledge. Stop feeling sorry and start backing up what you say intelligent FACTUAL answers instead of name calling and your "I know better than you" factless posts. Explain yourself, if you can...
It seems like you don't know much about fires, I have a degree in fire science and i work for cal fire. so take it from me it would be very hard for a fire to breath the high up. people and fire are way different, people have lungs, fire need air to breath and theirs not much up there. even people have hard time of breathing that far up.
I sure hope you're not doing anything related to public safety. You have no clue what you're talking about!
I have personally had a nice campfire going at Saddlebag Lake (at 10,000 feet elevation) in the Sierras, with no problem. Fires may burn with less intensity at higher altitudes but they DO burn. How do you explain the well documented forest fires at 15,000 in the Himalayas?
Seriously, go get a better degree at different school. The one you have didn't work.
haha what a smart guy. so apparently there is no reason for a fire department, fire extinguishers, even smoke alarms in a place like denver, colorado for instance...
Amazing video. I've been watching this fire from outside of my house here in West Covina but watching these videos really shows the power and intensity this fire has. Im hope the best for those brave firefighters and the work they are doing.
Thanks for watching and commenting :-) This fire was 15-20 miles away from me and STILL it was very impressive. I can only imagine how these 20,000' pyro cumulus towers must have looked from the edge of the fire! :-O
Forest fires can burn up to at least 4900 meters (15,000 feet) altitude. Ref: Tibet forest fires in the Himalayas, March 2009. Google it, you'll see. Please get your facts straight. You're giving people bad information.
Have you ever been to the ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST in the San Gabriel Mountains? Yes, it has many brushy areas at lower altitudes, but go visit Mt. Gleason or any other place there above 6000'. If there's any of it left after this fire, you'll see that it has more than enough Pine and other tree density to easily qualify as a forest.
You're not kidding - I've taken Angeles Forest Highway all the way through a number of times and been up to Gleason too - there's plenty of classic Pine forest up there, not to mention Oak, Sycamore and Cottonwood forest habitat down lower. It's great bug-hunting territory (or at least, it WAS) ...and some of those peaks are 8000 feet+ elevation.
Can we all wake up now?The Socal fires of summer 2009 were the work of Jihadis using paid illegals or local sleepers.They wiped out a large piece of the landscape,wrecked the health of many,and destroyed lives and property just as in 911.They found a soft target.
Thanks! Yes, I was surprised how fast that one took off. I saw some pretty cool uploads from other viewers - a few I was quite envious of! I just finished uploading the compilation of all the best footage I filmed during this event. I'll be curious to see if the public is still interested or if it's already "old news" by now!
Everyone has such a short-term memory these days. Not sure if you saw the one T/L video on the Featured Videos- the one where the photographer carefully set up his camera to film 3.5 hours- and ended up getting a great shot of a big street light pole across the street with the smoke in the background. Maybe I'm just too critical.... "Featured Videos..." meh!
Hahahaha! XD No, I didn't see that one... and it got featured, too? XD OK, yes it's true - there's some real junk getting huge hit counts... I guess there's no accounting for taste and quality where the general public is concerned - maybe there's a certain amount of bot and random-selected material, just to try and keep from playing favorites too much with the big guys. Dunno, but it IS interesting!
Oh yeah, they featured that blunder. I'm thinking to myself, "You didn't SEE that street light in the middle of the frame when you set up your camera?" It's unbelievable- the garbage YT pushes on the front page. But.... perhaps indirectly, it somehow directed viewers to find your work. Maybe there is some justice.
Right now there's almost no wind at all in this area - so the smoke is probably rising straight up and "pooling" around the source. It's been totalling overcast with smoke plume most of the day here in Santa Clarita, but oddly, there isn't much smoke or ashfall at ground level. It's pretty weird
It was a large, 767-sized jet aircraft circling the west side of the fire - about 7 times around before it finally left the area. Dunno what it was up to...
It was about that size, but it only had two engines... Could have the DC-10 tanker.
It was flying VERY slowly, and at a high angle of attack. It didn't seem like something an airliner would do, even if loiting near Burbank A/P awaiting clearence. It made 7 very wide, slow circles west of the fire, then headed south and out of my view.
I've seen some pretty interesting shapes in cloud formations... I have one video on my JCMDIStockFootage channel that looks like the next generation Starship Enterprise!
Thank you for these beautiful pictures ;) is amazing to watch this intense form clouds of smoke at their peaks, the cool air in the upper layers of the atmosphere that helped the fire itself convection and moisture generated by the natural fuel (trees, shrubs and other plants) grow these clusters are in some cases, they form thunderstorms :).
No problem. I also been hearing that Colorado has been really affected by this (the sun looks really red there.)
The only thing that's probably affecting us from the fire is that it has pushed the marine layer away from us (I'm by the beach) and because of that, it's really hot over here.
I'm assuming you live in LA. Please take care and God Bless!
All of these are very nicely done! I am so sorry for those who have lost their homes. But I've said it before - when you choose to live in a desert, no matter how breath-taking your view is to do so, you have to live with desert wildfires. Southern California is predominantly desert.
It seems like no matter where one lives, there's always SOME sort of natural disaster waiting to happen - floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, ect. I guess no one ever said life is a safe occupation!! Thanks for watching and commenting =)
Spectacular! The time lapse gives an amazing visual of what it's REALLY doing. I checked out the other footage too, (wasn't aware of the other channel), and it even further elevates how monstrous it is. Superb photography, as always.
I'm hoping we'll get at least a LITTLE rain from that, but it's pretty rare that hurricanes make it this far north and still have anything left in them besides a lot of high clouds. Thanks for the thoughts! =)
I live about 80 miles from that fire. You can't even see the mountians that surround the valley anymore. That far and this morning my car was covered in ashes.
I always found it interesting to see other footage from this area as well - seems to give it more "value" in some ways if it's familiar. Thanks for checking it out! =)
Wildfires are indeed a natural event, if they start naturally. But many of our fires are intentionally set by people.
There is some controversy about fire suppression actually making natural wildfires more intense and dangerous, due to the un-natural build-up of old-growth vegatation (fuel). The best protection against fires would probably be to build more fire-proof structures, perhaps out of steel and concrete rather than wood and tar paper.
n2c. to ansewr your'e question. i think all of them are being caused because cailifornia is the wildfire state i call and its being caused naturaly. think of this. as the oppsoite of nature doing nature's work for her/whatever it is
Many of CA's fires are set by arsonists, although sometimes they start by lightning, winds blowing trees down into power lines, car fires on the side of the road, etc. One thing for sure - we sure do have a LOT of them!
It's kind of hard to see unless you watch it in HD full-screen, but that's actually a 767-sized jet circling just to the west of the fire! Not sure what it was up to, but it was getting a great view from there!
if you want to make humorous comments, go ahead, it's a free country. but it strikes me as unbelievably immature and very inappropriate. people have lost their lives already, countless homes are in danger, and massive amounts of beautiful wilderness is being destroyed.
What's really amazing is that little tiny-looking airplane that keeps circling is actually a 767-sized jet! Really puts the huge size of that smoke cloud in perspective. Thanks for watching :-)
Yea - two were killed when their vehicle went off the road in heavy smoke. A number of structures/houses have been lost as well. It's been a rough one...
all this smoke and haze is drifting over to colorado. i can barely see my own mountain range. DAMNIT! just kidding its to bad thats doing some real damage over there
That plane circled around like a million times... i bet it was like a news plane or something like that....send a sky full of those choppers that carry the water and just put it out that way. but the smoke will billow...use dirt....
well, 2 things. 1. california has wildfires naturally, and you can't stop arsonists. 2. Firefighting choppers do not have "capsules", and the retardent doesn't suffocate the flames. Dry chem powder extinguishers and CO2 suffocate flames, but, if we dropped that, we'd have alot of dead people on our hands, so that doesn't work. I agree on killing arsonists, but its impossible to live in a wildfire free california. thats why we have the forest service and LACoFD. And, arson investigators.
mikeloire04 it wasnt started by us. the temparutes were wayyyyy to high. i live in NY but i saw the news and it said it was like in the 100's. even 110 degrees.
Hard to imagine that it's just water vapour.
123eldest 3 months ago
@123eldest It's interesting that a lot of people don't realize just how much water vapor is contained in a smoke plume, but it sure is more visible when it condenses and turns white at the higher altitudes... THanks for checking it out! =)
jcmegabyte 3 months ago
dude the plane is fucking lost:P
mr0loki0jr 11 months ago
Fantastically!!!!!
Skalar300 1 year ago
Thanks! =)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
i remember that formation!!!
awsomenascarn3n42 1 year ago
It was quite a sight! Thanks for stopping by =)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
that day is my b-day :D
ridedkbikes11 1 year ago
Killer....the time lapse really conveys the sense of movement within the smoke that is hard to see at actual speed. Bravo!
SpaceForte 2 years ago
I liked the plane flying laps around the valley, too. The time lapse definitely shows a lot of interesting things! Thanks for watching :-)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
Your video is fantastic, there is not an adjective to define it; the music is spectacular, colors are great!
astrofranck 2 years ago
What an amazing spectacle!!! Awesome!!
Intersounds 2 years ago
Yep - it was quite a sight and it went on for over a week. Thanks for checking it out!
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
smoke video or UFO video lol
Juntahh 2 years ago
Hahahaa yea - it sort of looks like it, but in this case the pilot of that UFO is a YouTube user! (Fyrpylit) XD
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
This is an incredible video.....You really captured an awesome moment in our experience. Great Work.....Keep it up
Peace
akatakamusic 2 years ago
I shot probably 50 clips/sequences during this event - it was a spectacular sight and I'm glad I was able to get a few good ones. Thanks for checking it out! :-)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
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MusicMichaels 2 years ago
inCREDIBLE.
artworkslive 2 years ago
Thanks, Baby! :-)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
who's your baby?
JFMatador 2 years ago
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jcmegabyte 2 years ago
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JFMatador 2 years ago
Just click her username link above: artworkslive :-)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
Its a Turbo Commander 690A. We were based at Fox in Lancaster. (I have been released from the fire and am heading home Sat AM to await the next one)
Tail number N24GT. I slow to 140-150 knots when "turning circles" as we call it. When I need to get up and go, I have the thrust available that takes me up to 290 knots. To calculate statute MPH multiply knots by 1.14
Fyrpylit 2 years ago
Eyes and ears of the incident commander. Functions as a sort of AWACS over the fire coordinating tankers/helicopters, contact with ground personnel. Identifies hazards, targets, objectives. Implements daily priorities from IC
Fyrpylit 2 years ago
Interesting - thanks for the info! It DID look more to me like aerial observation than anything else - especially with the apparently very low airspeed and upwind flight pattern. Out of curiousity what was the aircraft type and airspeed?
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
Do you see that plane circling the smoke plume? Thats me. I am the Air Attack Pilot on the Statiom Fire
Fyrpylit 2 years ago
I counted around 10 complete circles... I what that was all about. I figured either tanker or observation. Was that a DC-10?
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
you need to go back to school if you think i'm wrong with what I'm talking about. The fire is not in forest. But im not going to get into it with you. your probably one of the dumb asses who would stay and try to protect his house when a wild fire comes. I really do feel sorry for people like you who think they know everything about wild fires. have a good one. im done talking about this.
sunsetreptiles 2 years ago
I know you didn't answer the question. You're wrong about the Station Fire in the National FOREST, AND the fact that fire DOES burn well above 6000'. You've probably never even BEEN in the San Gabriel Mountains. The facts contradict your so-called knowledge. Stop feeling sorry and start backing up what you say intelligent FACTUAL answers instead of name calling and your "I know better than you" factless posts. Explain yourself, if you can...
BadAtmosphere 2 years ago
It seems like you don't know much about fires, I have a degree in fire science and i work for cal fire. so take it from me it would be very hard for a fire to breath the high up. people and fire are way different, people have lungs, fire need air to breath and theirs not much up there. even people have hard time of breathing that far up.
sunsetreptiles 2 years ago
I sure hope you're not doing anything related to public safety. You have no clue what you're talking about!
I have personally had a nice campfire going at Saddlebag Lake (at 10,000 feet elevation) in the Sierras, with no problem. Fires may burn with less intensity at higher altitudes but they DO burn. How do you explain the well documented forest fires at 15,000 in the Himalayas?
Seriously, go get a better degree at different school. The one you have didn't work.
BadAtmosphere 2 years ago
haha what a smart guy. so apparently there is no reason for a fire department, fire extinguishers, even smoke alarms in a place like denver, colorado for instance...
zdonjuan1 2 years ago
Hahahah I also have to wonder what "cal fire" is... I WON'T be hiring them for any fire safety work XD
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
Amazing video. I've been watching this fire from outside of my house here in West Covina but watching these videos really shows the power and intensity this fire has. Im hope the best for those brave firefighters and the work they are doing.
Great vid again.
beachxaddict 2 years ago
Thanks for watching and commenting :-) This fire was 15-20 miles away from me and STILL it was very impressive. I can only imagine how these 20,000' pyro cumulus towers must have looked from the edge of the fire! :-O
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
the fire is not 6000 feet up in the mountains. a fire that high up in the mountain wouldn't be able to breath.
sunsetreptiles 2 years ago
Forest fires can burn up to at least 4900 meters (15,000 feet) altitude. Ref: Tibet forest fires in the Himalayas, March 2009. Google it, you'll see. Please get your facts straight. You're giving people bad information.
BadAtmosphere 2 years ago
If a person can breathe at 6,000 feet, I'm sure a fire could.
DiverseLA 2 years ago
Great video..
I was on the front lines
during this ty
please check out my vids
thejonesfather 2 years ago
i wonder how this will affect the atmosphere with all that gas released
moneyjr1122 2 years ago
Yea - it does make you wonder. Thanks for checking it out!
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
do you know what a forest fire is, the station fire was not a forest fire, it was a brush fire. big difference
sunsetreptiles 2 years ago
Have you ever been to the ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST in the San Gabriel Mountains? Yes, it has many brushy areas at lower altitudes, but go visit Mt. Gleason or any other place there above 6000'. If there's any of it left after this fire, you'll see that it has more than enough Pine and other tree density to easily qualify as a forest.
BadAtmosphere 2 years ago
You're not kidding - I've taken Angeles Forest Highway all the way through a number of times and been up to Gleason too - there's plenty of classic Pine forest up there, not to mention Oak, Sycamore and Cottonwood forest habitat down lower. It's great bug-hunting territory (or at least, it WAS) ...and some of those peaks are 8000 feet+ elevation.
Thanks for posting! =)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
Can we all wake up now?The Socal fires of summer 2009 were the work of Jihadis using paid illegals or local sleepers.They wiped out a large piece of the landscape,wrecked the health of many,and destroyed lives and property just as in 911.They found a soft target.
hiroguam 2 years ago
why are you putting the same comment on every video of this fire???
albeehateshate7 2 years ago
Everyone has grown complacent about homegrown terrorism and the fires are a classic example of what they do. DUH !!
hiroguam 2 years ago
eh, its possible.
EyMeng 2 years ago
Cool shot! Looks great on HD!
Elleivier 2 years ago
The 1080p version is even better - I hope to release all this footage on Blue-Ray some time in the future. :-)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
After seeing a good number of other T/L Station Fire videos, yours is the best. I was shocked to see how many views it is getting- very cool!
taofledermaus 2 years ago
Thanks! Yes, I was surprised how fast that one took off. I saw some pretty cool uploads from other viewers - a few I was quite envious of! I just finished uploading the compilation of all the best footage I filmed during this event. I'll be curious to see if the public is still interested or if it's already "old news" by now!
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
Everyone has such a short-term memory these days. Not sure if you saw the one T/L video on the Featured Videos- the one where the photographer carefully set up his camera to film 3.5 hours- and ended up getting a great shot of a big street light pole across the street with the smoke in the background. Maybe I'm just too critical.... "Featured Videos..." meh!
taofledermaus 2 years ago
Hahahaha! XD No, I didn't see that one... and it got featured, too? XD OK, yes it's true - there's some real junk getting huge hit counts... I guess there's no accounting for taste and quality where the general public is concerned - maybe there's a certain amount of bot and random-selected material, just to try and keep from playing favorites too much with the big guys. Dunno, but it IS interesting!
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
Oh yeah, they featured that blunder. I'm thinking to myself, "You didn't SEE that street light in the middle of the frame when you set up your camera?" It's unbelievable- the garbage YT pushes on the front page. But.... perhaps indirectly, it somehow directed viewers to find your work. Maybe there is some justice.
taofledermaus 2 years ago
Same day I saw this plume from the hills of Moorpark 30 miles away and it could have been a nuclear mushroom cloud.
Incredible sight to see live.
Kettle17 2 years ago
I would think it should be pretty amazing from there! Do shoot and upload some video for us to see :-)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
man fucken california always burning up and shit wtfuck
klumzycuhz 2 years ago
Bro I am so happy to see your videos getting the views!
Hope you are doing awesome! Awesome video and music friend!
-dj mastervolume
stillsavinglives 2 years ago
Thanks so much for stopping by! Yes, doing well, so long as that fire stays well to the east! Have a great day :-)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
Great colors.
LukeyBop 2 years ago
Thanks! Under exposure and a polarizing filter help a lot with saturation. :-)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
Nice video - how do you make HD time lapses?
starrynte 2 years ago
I use a digital still camera to shoot the pictures, one at a time, then make all the still images into video using software.
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
What size do you take the pictures in?
starrynte 2 years ago
Anywhere from 2272x1704 to 3648x2736, depending upon conditions and what it is I am shooting.
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
And later do you resize it? (which seems to take quite some time for me)
starrynte 2 years ago
Crop and scale (again, depending on what I am shooting) - yes it is VERY time consuming!
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
Here in LA the smoke plumes seem like they're not moving...... :/
clubpenguins100 2 years ago
Right now there's almost no wind at all in this area - so the smoke is probably rising straight up and "pooling" around the source. It's been totalling overcast with smoke plume most of the day here in Santa Clarita, but oddly, there isn't much smoke or ashfall at ground level. It's pretty weird
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
Gosh. I'm praying for the people in your area. Are you safe from harm? I hope so.
Maymona13 2 years ago
what the thing spinning in the sky?
DarkMCR666 2 years ago
It was a large, 767-sized jet aircraft circling the west side of the fire - about 7 times around before it finally left the area. Dunno what it was up to...
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
Could it have been Evergreen's 747 supertanker?
grumpybb 2 years ago
It was about that size, but it only had two engines... Could have the DC-10 tanker.
It was flying VERY slowly, and at a high angle of attack. It didn't seem like something an airliner would do, even if loiting near Burbank A/P awaiting clearence. It made 7 very wide, slow circles west of the fire, then headed south and out of my view.
JcmdiStockFootage 2 years ago
Awesome video!
jularella 2 years ago
Thanks so much for watching and the nice comment! :-)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
Your welcome!! and thanks!!
jularella 2 years ago
I remember seeing it from the 605, it looked like a mushroom cloud!
xdjvenomx 2 years ago
I saw a number of those - pretty scary-looking!
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
i remember seeing it from my house a bit after sunset. looked like a star destroyer =p
IVtomatoXX 2 years ago
I've seen some pretty interesting shapes in cloud formations... I have one video on my JCMDIStockFootage channel that looks like the next generation Starship Enterprise!
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
Ottimo!!!!
Giuliano
giulianopietra 2 years ago
Thanks so much!
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
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CAROLYN909 2 years ago
wow this is fantastic..the skies in colorado have been eerie from this..the sunshine and moonlight both have looked red. thanks for this video
karmacomacure 2 years ago
I've been hearing of smoke effects from your area - just amazing! Thanks for watching and commenting. :-)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
INCREDIBLE pictures :O awesome 5/5
supercellstorm 2 years ago
Some amazing sights around here to shoot - thanks for checking it out! :-)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
Thank you for these beautiful pictures ;) is amazing to watch this intense form clouds of smoke at their peaks, the cool air in the upper layers of the atmosphere that helped the fire itself convection and moisture generated by the natural fuel (trees, shrubs and other plants) grow these clusters are in some cases, they form thunderstorms :).
supercellstorm 2 years ago
I live up in San Luis Obispo and I have ashes on my car (and I'm 3 hours away from LA!)
MADDOG6400 2 years ago
That's amazing! I keep hearing reports from all over the southwestern states about ashfall from this fire! Thanks for the info =)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
No problem. I also been hearing that Colorado has been really affected by this (the sun looks really red there.)
The only thing that's probably affecting us from the fire is that it has pushed the marine layer away from us (I'm by the beach) and because of that, it's really hot over here.
I'm assuming you live in LA. Please take care and God Bless!
MADDOG6400 2 years ago
All of these are very nicely done! I am so sorry for those who have lost their homes. But I've said it before - when you choose to live in a desert, no matter how breath-taking your view is to do so, you have to live with desert wildfires. Southern California is predominantly desert.
marsbreakfast 2 years ago
It seems like no matter where one lives, there's always SOME sort of natural disaster waiting to happen - floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, ect. I guess no one ever said life is a safe occupation!! Thanks for watching and commenting =)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
thats very impressive for a wild fire, there must be alot of fuel to that thing.
Cjohnsonmyer014 2 years ago
They're saying there's at least 40 years of old-growth fuel up there - it's no wonder it's so intense!
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
i saw the ufo
justlittlemewill 2 years ago
ITS A VOLCANO!
artmak5 2 years ago
Sure looks like one!
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
woow...have you seen also all the airplanes flying around there? :D
dentavaly 2 years ago
I think it was mostly one 767-sized jet making 7 or more circles. Dunno what it was up to, though!
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
this fire made me get sick :(
lol
pokemonzapdos 2 years ago
I've been hearing of a LOT people getting sick from all the smoke. Hope you get better soon!
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
that is some crazy shit
nicely filmed
hope they get it under control soon
sheepball 2 years ago
Me too. Thanks for watching and commenting!
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
The plume was recorded as high as 20,000 feet. That is high enough to get the smoke to nebraska.
redbaroniii 2 years ago
I was wondering about that. It's hard to estimate from ground level without triangulation and such. Thanks for the info! =D
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
You're an idiot.
freakincrod 2 years ago
I live in Colorado and there is some haze blowing in from the fires. I'm thinking about you guys in L.A. Hope it's over soon!
filmflim 2 years ago
I'm amazed that it's getting that far! Thanks for the thoughts and info =)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
FIRE!!!!!!
Sausage81 2 years ago
Spectacular! The time lapse gives an amazing visual of what it's REALLY doing. I checked out the other footage too, (wasn't aware of the other channel), and it even further elevates how monstrous it is. Superb photography, as always.
anmoose 2 years ago
I've always loved time lapse just because of that! Thanks for the great comment! :-)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
Any chance hurricane Jimena, can bring much needed rain?
My heart goes out to every one in LA and I pray for the safety for the brave firefighters. They are real Heroes.
adivawoman 2 years ago
I'm hoping we'll get at least a LITTLE rain from that, but it's pretty rare that hurricanes make it this far north and still have anything left in them besides a lot of high clouds. Thanks for the thoughts! =)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
I live about 80 miles from that fire. You can't even see the mountians that surround the valley anymore. That far and this morning my car was covered in ashes.
Gummybearred 2 years ago
It's amazing how far the smoke and ash is traveling! Thanks for the report :-)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
love this! i love that like all your videos are from where i'm from so i have an idea where everything is in the videos xDD
TwoPointProductions 2 years ago
I always found it interesting to see other footage from this area as well - seems to give it more "value" in some ways if it's familiar. Thanks for checking it out! =)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
am i right?
Gatty060 2 years ago
Wildfires are indeed a natural event, if they start naturally. But many of our fires are intentionally set by people.
There is some controversy about fire suppression actually making natural wildfires more intense and dangerous, due to the un-natural build-up of old-growth vegatation (fuel). The best protection against fires would probably be to build more fire-proof structures, perhaps out of steel and concrete rather than wood and tar paper.
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
n2c. to ansewr your'e question. i think all of them are being caused because cailifornia is the wildfire state i call and its being caused naturaly. think of this. as the oppsoite of nature doing nature's work for her/whatever it is
Gatty060 2 years ago
What's causing all the fires?
N2CBiohazard 2 years ago
Many of CA's fires are set by arsonists, although sometimes they start by lightning, winds blowing trees down into power lines, car fires on the side of the road, etc. One thing for sure - we sure do have a LOT of them!
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
nice spacey new age music..LOL
xpez 2 years ago
I just sat down and played that one day. Experimental stuff, like most of my music! XD
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
Thank God that the winds came from the south!!!
rjpinnell 2 years ago
Seems like it's been switching around lately - giving just about everbody a dose some some degree!
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
notice the birds flying around in circles many times lol
medfordORlightning 2 years ago
It's kind of hard to see unless you watch it in HD full-screen, but that's actually a 767-sized jet circling just to the west of the fire! Not sure what it was up to, but it was getting a great view from there!
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
how far away are you taping from? ive never seen anything of this scale in person...it's mind blowing
funnyfootlong 2 years ago
This was shot from roughly 10-15 miles away and even at that range the plume was huge!
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
Its look like a volcanic smoke
mcbong10 2 years ago
I was thinking the same thing while I was filming - pretty amazing sights to see in person..
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
you have way to much time on your hands...
FrancescaM1987 2 years ago
I wish there were more hours in the day... So much more I could be doing!
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
its a setting. its not like hes sitting there taking pictures the whole time
brentchico 2 years ago
Whatever; they are spending that time recording history. Many of us seem to have the time to waste to view the footage. ;)
westkan 2 years ago
Yeah..
turb0strid3r 2 years ago
if you want to make humorous comments, go ahead, it's a free country. but it strikes me as unbelievably immature and very inappropriate. people have lost their lives already, countless homes are in danger, and massive amounts of beautiful wilderness is being destroyed.
godfatherNYC 2 years ago
this is why i want to move to seattle
3pepper9 2 years ago
LOL.
the helicopters/airplanes looks reallly tiny.
T^T i really hope the fire goes out soon....
and i pray for the families of the two firefighters thata died!
alicekim1995 2 years ago
What's really amazing is that little tiny-looking airplane that keeps circling is actually a 767-sized jet! Really puts the huge size of that smoke cloud in perspective. Thanks for watching :-)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
Crap! Some firemen have already died!?
imskilled94 2 years ago
Yea - two were killed when their vehicle went off the road in heavy smoke. A number of structures/houses have been lost as well. It's been a rough one...
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
two actually
ShayminIsAwsum 2 years ago
0:14 airplane.
HellsDevineSword 2 years ago
those were airplanes man and thats comming from a believer in ufo's
Tornado092890 2 years ago
Yup - if viewers watch it in HD and freeze the vid they can see it pretty clearly - a 767-size jet aircraft! :-)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
Amazing how it is so hard to fight the fire when it first started small...
Anyways yeah that place gets burnt all the time...
aspottedcheetta 2 years ago
did you guys see all those UFOs?!?! wholly shit!! they were going crazy!
1androo2 2 years ago 2
i kno lol!!!
watevva 2 years ago
excellent photography skills, man!
hhairball9 2 years ago
Thanks so much for the great comment! :-)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
Wind must have switched again - it was right over us (Santa Clarita) this morning. Hope they get it out soon!
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
We have it in Los Angeles also
AzNpRiDeHoMeZ 2 years ago
Its called the pretty wildfire. Once there was a pretty wildfire. It was so massive and pretty that everyone in california died. The End
Gatty060 2 years ago
i live 300-350 miles away from the fire and it is easily visible....
socalfarris90 2 years ago
Wow - I had no idea it was visible from that far away! :-O
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
UFO at 0:15!!!
IRickyValentine 2 years ago
Pause, its a plane.
One3teen 2 years ago
That UFO is what we call a bug...
Genoc1d3r 2 years ago
dumbass its a plane its going so fast cause of the fast forward
abcoffofme 2 years ago
Very awesome bro, sick
Btw how much was the camera+lense that you used for that?
Darthvictor12 2 years ago
I shot this with a stock Canon SX10-is, got it at Wal-Mart online (seriously - stop laughing! XD) for under $400 :-)
It's a decent camera, AND the firmware is hackable with CHDK... very cool.
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
errr where my comment go of me asking why the sky in this video looks blue like it really used to be in the 1980"s?.
anyways you said you used a filter because i asked why it was so blue in this because its not blue like that anymore.
so yes the sky used to be this blue a lot of days. dont let anyone say different to you because it was. big difference huh....
lukeslandspeeder 2 years ago
Yer comment is still there - but it's back a ways now... been gettin a LOT of activity on this vid.
Yep - I seem to remember a less hazy, more blue sky from 20 years ago, too. Too much fargin' pollution most likely.
It's still a nice deep blue sometimes in winter, right after heavy rains but rarely in the summer when it's dry and hot.
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
thanks man. glad you agreed. 8) take care and dont get roasted out there!. 8)
lukeslandspeeder 2 years ago
all this smoke and haze is drifting over to colorado. i can barely see my own mountain range. DAMNIT! just kidding its to bad thats doing some real damage over there
kruns11 2 years ago
lol not really a lot of damage but yea its doing some damage
we can breathe but like 128,000 acres have burned so yea its done a whole mess of damage
Peruviandude96 2 years ago
well there are fire stoppers but what was smokey the bear for well he's working hes suppose to stop not create them why smokey why
pimppain1 2 years ago
I live in los angelees
mentolord 2 years ago
You could probably see this fire fairly well from there, depending whether there are mountains inthe way or not.
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
That plane circled around like a million times... i bet it was like a news plane or something like that....send a sky full of those choppers that carry the water and just put it out that way. but the smoke will billow...use dirt....
mikeloire04 2 years ago
i bet plane at 0:30 was like WAHT?!?!?
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mikeloire04 2 years ago
well, 2 things. 1. california has wildfires naturally, and you can't stop arsonists. 2. Firefighting choppers do not have "capsules", and the retardent doesn't suffocate the flames. Dry chem powder extinguishers and CO2 suffocate flames, but, if we dropped that, we'd have alot of dead people on our hands, so that doesn't work. I agree on killing arsonists, but its impossible to live in a wildfire free california. thats why we have the forest service and LACoFD. And, arson investigators.
EMT667 2 years ago
mikeloire04 it wasnt started by us. the temparutes were wayyyyy to high. i live in NY but i saw the news and it said it was like in the 100's. even 110 degrees.
roju0229 2 years ago