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A Controlled Burn Fills The Sky With Smoke

Nov. 29, 2007
Categorized in: Photos of Los Gatos
Tagged with: controlled burn, fire, san jose

The LeDiet Burn on Mt Hamilton, over San Jose, CA, as seen at 1:30pm in east Los Gatos on 11-29-07

It's ironic (and annoying) that a few nights ago, we had a "spare the air night" and were asked to not burn wood in our fireplaces on a cold and gloomy night. But within 48 hours, the California Department of Forestry was doing a little burning of its own - 1400 acres on Mount Hamilton.

Controlled burns are intended to reduce fire risk and provide some other benefits. (It is supposedly good for the habitat of the area, but I have a feeling that more than a few animals lost their lives in this burn.) But why do it now, when the rainy season is just around the corner?

I don't know the answer to that. I do know that it's a 3 day burn. The air is bad. I can't believe that this is allowed when a fireplace isn't. It's unfathomable to me that the air now isn't far worse than earlier in the week. Will they burn again tomorrow? It appears so.

By late afternoon, there was so much smoke that the plume could no longer be seen. View from Harwood Road, Los Gatos, 11-29-2007

NBC 11 has a nice slideshow with better pics than my Treo could capture. Enjoy.