Lookout Fire Time-Lapse Video Taken from the Roswell Communication Tower for the Period of Record Aug. 10 - Oct. 23, 2023.

A lightning strike fire started on Saturday, August 5, within the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, between the base of Lookout cliff and the ridge dividing Lookout and Mack Creek drainages.  As of today, August 7, the fire is 2.5 acres. Two helicopters are traveling between the Blue River reservoir and the fire carrying water. The plan is to keep knocking back the fire until ground crews can get a line around it and contain it.  It is burning in steep terrain, in old growth with dense understory, which is making it a challenge for experienced ground crews.  In addition to the helicopters, a hotshot crew has been assigned to the fire, most likely starting August 8.

These images were taken from remote based StarDot and NetCam IP cameras positioned 13 meters up the Roswell Communication tower located in the north east side of the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest. Andrews Forest LTER collected and manged these data in real-time and compiled a final time-lapse video of each camera using a multi-threaded python program.

Additional Resources:
Andrews Forest LTER
Andrews Forest Youtube
InciWeb

This material is based upon work supported by the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest and Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program under the NSF grant LTER8 DEB-2025755.