Can you see the smoke?

Excellent video.  Gotta love the voice cockpit prompts; 'throttle.... throttle.... ' at 3:30 and 'landing gear....'  at 4:00

The comment about 1:45

RacinRob - you were seeing the column from the American Fire on the Tahoe NF.  I think they are at about 60% containment on that one last I checked.

The Rim fire is out of control.  We had to evacuate several of our field crews.  Here's a link to the current fire perimeter - as Mike stated, it has blown from 15K acres to 105K acres in the last 48 hrs.  Several communities at risk, almost took out the Forest Service Ranger District office in Groveland - still at risk.  Has burned through some prime trout fishing stream/rivers as well.  This one will be interesting to watch.

http://www.mymotherlode.com/news/pdfs/PIO_Dsize_land_20130822_2330_Rim_CA_STF_2857_150dpi.pdf

I spent six years on the ranger station above Groveland when I was a kid, saw my father come home many times covered in pink borate and/or soot. Those firefighters have one of the toughest jobs around.

Crazy cool video, this fire could go down as one of the states worst, we got a ways to go on this one.

My son and I were fishing the Delta today, Friday the 23rd, That's one huge cloud of smoke. It is very visible.

Latest update is just over 125000 with 5% containment that puts this at the 15 or 16 largest fire in the history of the state

Wishing I was there working. Dont think the wife would forgive me if I didnt make it home in time for the newest addition being born