Cascade Complex Fire Pictures | Audrey Jeanne's Expressions

My husband called this afternoon and we had a leisurely 40 minute conversation, the first in a very, very long time. He mentioned that there was a website I could go to with incident photos and reports (why didn’t I know about this 3 weeks ago is my next question to him!!!) The website has about 50 photos from the fire that he’s been on for most of this month.

When things heated up earlier this week (and their fire camp burned over) he told me about 3 historic log cabins that were near him and were so cute. He was really upset that they didn’t make it. Here’s a picture of the firefighters doing their best to try to shield them. They’re actually wrapping the structure with a metallic reflective shield. My guess is that just the heat of the fire would have been enough to ignite the super dried out structure.

This next picture is of towering clouds that the flames produce. They soar 35-40,000 feet in to the sky and then ice forms at the top of the clouds and the weight becomes too much for the cloud to sustain and the wind comes rushing back down as the cloud collapses. When this happens a wind is produced that spreads the fire in a wild, chaotic fashion. So they are spectacularly beautiful and very dangerous.

Often this week, they’ve had an inversion layer which acts like a blanket and "smothers" the fire with pressure which also holds in the smoke like a fog. Steve said they’ll wake up and can barely see the other side of their tent because of the fire "fog" that settles over the camp.

This is their camp as the flames were approaching. These helicopters are truly amazing and their crew are real heroes. They battled for hours to keep the camp safe. The camp Steve is in is the Incident Control Center (or it’s called something very similar in name)

This is some amazingly beautiful country. I love the mountains and tall trees so it would be easy for me to consider living in a place like this. I’m not much for shopping or city-life (though I do enjoy a good play or other artistic presentation!) I guess I’m just a mountain-girl at heart.

These are the flames as they were coming across the highway. Steve’s fire is part of the Cascade Complex Fires, his is the North Fork Fire that has threatened the community of Warm Lake and closed Warm Lake Highway.

He’ll be leaving there (fingers crossed) tomorrow. They’ll rest for a day or two and then may go on to another site.

One of my friend’s (Trice Workman) brother’s home was spared last night, but I haven’t heard any further today. He lives near/in Missoula, Montana. Pray for him, his neighbors (who lost their homes) and his family.

Audrey Jeanne Roberts

THE PROVERB OF THE DAY: Prov 17:12-14
Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs
than a fool in his folly. If a man pays back evil for good,
evil will never leave his house. Starting a quarrel is like breaching a dam;
so drop the matter before a dispute breaks out. NIV

13 thoughts on “Cascade Complex Fire Pictures”

I am so glad that you had time to talk to your hubby. It must be hard having him away with so much danger around him. The pictures tell such a story. Keeping their safety in my prayers.

The pictures are awesome! How very scary to see what Steve if facing. I am so proud of you for being such a brave and understanding spouse to let him go to others in their time of need.

My husband was (before we had children) and my brother-in-law is a fireman.

I will keep them in my prayers.

I’m glad Steve is getting a chance to get some real rest. Wish he were headed home to you!!

Audrey, it’s at difficult times like these that you really do have to depend on and trust the Lord to see you and your loved ones through. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your husband. Where I live in the UK we complain about the weather, if we don’t have a good summer, if it always seems to be raining and of course the flooding we are having in England. Of course we do, we’re only human but at the end of the day I always count my blessings that WE do not have the extremes that some places do. So wherever we are there is always something for which to be thankful.

Steve should be home very soon 😀 All I can say is, “Don’t mess with mother nature.” She doesn’t play fair.

Hey Just came upon your web page searching more information about the Cascade Complex Fire. My husband is in that camp also. Tuesday will be his second week, and I got news just yesterday that they may keep him there for another two weeks. I was soooo hoping to get to see him this week but, it looks like I’ll have to wait a couple more. It’s nice to be able to talk with someone else who goes through the same thing as I do. I live in North Carolina.
Kasey

Those are incrediable pictures, to be able to see what goes on. How scary to have a forest fire, I live on a mountain with forrest all around me. there was a fire on Thursday just 15 miles from here, but with the rain they got it under controll. Thanks for sharing these pictures.