An AJ’s Towing operator recorded aircraft supporting crews at the Floriston Fire near Truckee on Sept. 16. Thank you to the firefighters and emergency teams protecting our communities. Follow official sources for safety updates. #FloristonFire #LakeTahoe

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🚁 Hitting the Floriston Fire from the air and ground.

Air tankers and helicopters supporting the #FloristonFire have delivered over 474,000 gallons of water and over 88,600 gallons of retardant, logging more than 122 flight hours — including 13-and-a-half hours of night operations.

A dramatic timelapse video captures the Floriston Fire sweeping across California, demonstrating how quickly wildfires can spread.

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Next Generation Fire System imagery from #GOESWest and #GOESEast provided views of the #FloristonFire thermal signature and smoke plume as it burned near the California/Nevada border on 16 September. More on the CIMSS Satellite Blog: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl... #CAwx #NVwx

Visible smoke on the eastern side of the #FloristonFire seen from the Amtrak California Zephyr. Westbound I-80 remains closed near the California-Nevada border.

Time-lapse of the start and growth of the #FloristonFire north of Lake Tahoe in Nevada County. Look to CAL FIRE Nevada Yuba Placer Unit for incident updates and see conditions live from multiple ALERTCalifornia cameras at: bit.ly/4yHvfDB

#FloristonFire: I-80 & Floriston Way, in #NevadaCounty, CA. It has grown with a dangerous rate of spread, prompting an evacuation warning for the NCO-E105, NCO-E106, and NCO-E379 zones. I-80 is closed at the #NV state line, as the fire has grown past 300 acres.

WTH? I left my house a few minutes ago to walk my dog and saw this. Looking from east across the Truckee Meadows (Reno) toward the Sierra Nevada about 1 p.m. Sept. 16. Peavine Mountain on the right has the blackened areas from the #hawkfire. Steamboat Slough in foreground. #FloristonFire #Floriston

Notable new wildfire (#FloristonFire) near the CA/NV border just west of I-80 in the Sierra Nevada. This fire is burning fairly aggressively in at least patchy heavy timber under elevated, but not extreme, fire weather conditions (breezy winds and low relative humidity). #CAwx

#FloristonFire: I-80 & Floriston Way, in #NevadaCounty, CA. It has grown with a dangerous rate of spread, prompting an evacuation warning for the NCO-E379 zone. I-80 is closed at the #NV state line, as the fire has a potential for at least 200 acres.