{"id":793,"date":"2015-07-22T23:15:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T05:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/?p=793"},"modified":"2017-02-28T23:29:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T06:29:26","slug":"glacier-wildfire-evacuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/glacier-wildfire-evacuation\/","title":{"rendered":"Glacier Wildfire Evacuation"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDITED 07\/23\/15 to add pictures.<\/p>\n

Ugh – this is my third attempt!<\/p>\n

This will be a short post – the ghastly wifi here ate my first attempt at this post last night and I had to rewrite! (And it still didn’t go through. I hope the third time’s the charm!)<\/p>\n

My lodge went on full evacuation\/abandon ship status yesterday afternoon. I was the guard on duty so I helped handle getting everybody out.<\/p>\n

The winds were very strong…and heading and feeding the flames right for the lodge. We watched the plumes grow bigger and darker.<\/p>\n

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Getting smoky. The mountains are obscured.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The smoke was starting to get darker.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Park Service upped the evacuation status to “ASAP!”<\/p>\n

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Ms. Vandura waits patiently as the plumes get yet darker.<\/p><\/div>\n

Ashes were raining down on me when the property manager told me to “Go, now.” We had stayed behind with a handful of employees tying up what loose ends we could and doing final sweeps.<\/p>\n

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The ridge directly above the lodge just after the evacuation and just before the rest of us got out.<\/p><\/div>\n

Update: Still spreading. The area directly across from our current campground has now also been evacuated. The fire is encompassing 2,000 acres from what I was told and the wind is again strong today and headed right for us. We’re on standby status.<\/p>\n

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The smoke hanging over the campground the night of the lodge evacuation.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A smoky sunset at the campground.<\/p><\/div>\n

Update: Had awakened with a large migraine-type headache and blowing blood into a tissue from smoke irritation. We had to abandon campground. The fire so far has grown to over 4,000 acres, destroyed a historic cabin and fried a vehicle left behind by a backpacker.<\/p>\n

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The sky above the campground just before I evacuated. You’re supposed to be able to see the mountains.<\/p><\/div>\n

We’ve relocated now elsewhere by the park!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wildfire!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[56,120,173,174,118,84,11,18,119],"tags":[50,156,21],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ridge_1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/1388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}