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Knot Lake Fire
2nd August 2009
This is the normal view through my window (at sunrise)
This is what it looked like in the afternoon of August 1st.
You can just see Mount Monarch on the left.
I emailed and phoned the fire information to the BC Forest Service
and eventually a helicopter landed in the meadow behind my cabins.
The men told me the fire was at the head of Knot Lake.
This is a map I drew of the Lonesome Lake Fire of 2004.
The northernmost tip of Knot Lake is at the bottom left.
Nuk Tessli is at the bottom middle.
Lonesome Lake is at the top left.
In 2004 the fire travelled from Lonesome Lake to Charlotte Lake in two days.
The dominant wind comes from the west. (Nuk Tessli means West Wind).So I phoned for a plane and I and the 4 clients who had arrived only a few hours earlier flew to Nimpo Lake.
(I am sitting in the back with the dogs.)
A quick glance at the cabin. (It is in the middle of the picture)
Will I see it again like this?
We're off the water....
And swinging round at the head of the lake
(The small lake in the foreground is Boundary Lake, to which we often canoe and hike.)
You can barely see Charlotte Lake as there are half a dozen other fires in the Chilcotin
and it is smoky everywhere.
At Nimpo Lake the sun was setting into the smoke coming from the Heckman Pass Fire,
the one that is closing highway 20 to Bella Coola.
And when I got back to my winter place at Ginty Creek,
a smoke-red moon hung in the sky.
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