Forest Fire Closes Devil's Highway 666; Our Favorite M/C Road.

[beemerdons]

https://www.azfamily.com/traffic/Fire-forces-shut-down-of-Arizona-highway-123028598.html# Dave C. and Greg M. sent me this link on the Wallow Fire that is now burning up Eastern Arizona. What a tragedy, we just lost the famous and historic Greer Lodge to fire last month. It would be so sad if we lose Alpine and Hannagan Meadows! We have half a dozen fires burning here in Arizona!

 

[Good2Go]

Bummer. I know of a few groups that have a ride planned through there this weekend.

 

[SkooterG]

Major bummer.

Hope Alpine and Hannigan Meadow are spared.

 

[oio]

Rode 191 from Alpine to Clifton on Sunday (5/29). Bummer about the fire. That is one of the best motorcycle roads in the country.

 

[Wolfhound]

I read Hannagan Lodge was saved & 50 firefighters were stranded their due to road closure but being supplied by air. The fire map shows the fire has moved across 191 & thru the meadows.

 

[SkooterG]

Yo Robbie! What cave did you come out from?

Got a link to the fire map?

Glad Hannigan meadow was saved.

 

[beemerdons]

I read Hannagan Lodge was saved & 50 firefighters were stranded their due to road closure but being supplied by air. The fire map shows the fire has moved across 191 & thru the meadows.

https://azstarnet.com/news/local/wildfire/article_d98ea718-621a-5cb7-8438-02114d054097.html

 

[beemerdons]

Yo Robbie! What cave did you come out from?

Got a link to the fire map?

Glad Hannigan meadow was saved.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/crews-in-arizona-work-to-protect-several-small-communities-from-2-large-approaching-wildfires/2011/06/05/AGnQQRJH_story.html

https://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/06/04/20110604arizona-wildfires-wallow-fire-ON.html Here is the fire map as of 0500 today.

 

[Bugnatr]

Saw this on our local news last night. Wish I could send you some of the rain we are getting today. Fire sucks, I rode through that area a few years back. Real nice, felt just like riding around some of our eastern Sierra's.

 

[beemerdons]

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wildfires-rage-192k-acres-arizona/story?id=13770377 So damn sad, the fires across Arizona are getting worse by the minute; high winds and high heat are making the firefighters jobs absolutely impossible!

 

[CAJW]

Sad news Don. I hate to see my former home state burning again and hope is doesn't get to the magnitude of the Rodeo-Chediski fire of 2002. Positive thoughts go out to the fire fighters and residents for a good outcome for all.

 

[pinhead]

The smoke from this fire here in Albuquerque, 200 miles away, is amazing. Having lived in the mountains of Colorado for 21 years, I've been downwind of a fair share of wild fires, but I've never seen smoke this thick and sustained so far away from a fire. Welcome to New Mexico, I guess.

I sure hope those firefighters catch a break soon and are able to get this blaze under control.

 

[beemerdons]

https://www.christianpost.com/news/wallow-fire-engulfs-300000-acres-still-uncontained-50941/ 300,000 acres are now burned, fire is still not contained!

 

[Wolfhound]

Incident map & info :

https://inciweb.org/incident/2262/

Rode the bottom of UT with my Wife on a 4 day trip a couple of weeks ago & about to take a month Motorhome/Jeep trip as far as Montgomery AL in a couple of weeks.

 

[NMRoadRunner]

The smoke from those fires is making it hard to see here in Albuquerque, we have to shut down the airconditioners in the afternoon to stop pulling the smoke into the house. But the sunsets are nice!

 

[beemerdons]

https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/crews-protect-resort-town-971658.html Sadly, the fire is getting worse; and, it now appears arson was the cause!

 

[beemerdons]

https://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droman/mesomap.cgi?profile_id=3V768SA529JBn7K&waiver=NS2gfuJLCsz4UrAj3PXEhQg8LJ6t3HqUJ8h85p7XW9iTA8W2828 MesoMapping

 

[beemerdons]

https://inciweb.org/incident/2262/ The Arizona Wallow Fire just keeps getting worse and growing bigger, devastating and so damn tragic!

 

[beemerdons]

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/10/arizona-wildfires-burning_n_874973.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk1%7C69958 5% containment.