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Fool Creek Fire
Ahorn Fool Creek
Blowup, July 31, 2007
Photographs by Bill Luthin
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1:42 pm Quiet day, smoke drifting north
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1:47
First sign of blowup (far left over Choteau Mountain)
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2:06
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3:33
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Plume from the Ahorn fire, 3:58 pm
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Looking east toward Pine Butte and Ralston Gap: Smoke stream from the Ahorn on the right
converging with smoke from Fool Creek on the left
4:46
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4:19
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4:27
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5:21
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5:26
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5:31, looking north
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5:43
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5:47
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5:52
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6:05
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6:06
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6:11
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7:09 (I)
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7:09 (II)
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7:09 (III)
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7:09 (I-III assembled)
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7:11Ear Mountain still clear
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(Note contrast between smoke-tinted light in foreground and clear light on slopes under Ear Mountain)
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7:12 Choteau Mountain obscured by smoke
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7:48
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7:51
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7:52
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7:54
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8:02, looking north
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The End
(We wish…)