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Sometimes it never pays to want to sleep in your own bed. No sooner had I gotten home to San Jose then I got the tweet form CAL Fire about the Crown fire in Southern California. I was only an hour away from that fire Thursday.
The fire is contained at 62% as I write this and is 13,918 acres in size. It was a large fire but LA County Fire got a handle on it fairly quickly and when I left the area last night it had mostly laid down and there were no large flames mostly just spot fires.
I just barely had enough time to relax and make dinner after returning from Lassen county when I get the CAL Fire twitter. Kern County Fire was battling a blaze south of Tehachapi and it looked like it was a big one.
The initial report was 400 acres and 30 plus structures lost with 150 structures threatened. 
I would have time for a quick nap then load up the car and head south. The drive would only take four hours.
I wanted to hit the road at 1 a.m. but I over-slept my alarm and didn’t get up till 5 a.m. (I guess I was more tired from the drive back from Lassen than I realized). I made quick time down I-5 and made it to Incident Command in Tehachapi around 10:30 a.m.
Yesterday I drove up north past Redding into Lassen National Forest for my first fire of the season. We had a wet winter so the season is getting off to a slow start. The Russell Fire was the first major incident up north.
The fire was in a remote part of the national forest making it not a very newsworthy event outside of the Redding area but it provided me the opportunity to get out and shoot.
There are a few pics in the archive here.
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