Smoke and smell in my neighborhood!

Hikngrl · Posted: 6/29/2005, 6:33 am Post subject: Smoke and smell in my neighborhood!

What fire would that be from....?I smelled it as soon as I walked out the door this am! And the smoke is hangining heavy in the air to the west of me.
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Al_HikesAZ · Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 263 Location: Scottsdale, AZ

I don't know where you live, but there was a fire yesterday at 311th Ave & Indian School Road in Buckeye. They evacuated about 100 houses and it burned a couple of hundred acres before it was contained.
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Daryl · Posted: 6/29/2005, 10:35 am Post subject:

Was pretty thick at Higley and McDowell this morning too.
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mike · What box? Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 3134

Diane, I would imagine your smoke is probably from the Cave Creek Complex fire. The air is heavy with it here in Scottsdale, too. As soon as I opened the door to leave for work this morning, I noticed the smell.
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BoyNhisDog · Posted: 6/29/2005, 12:51 pm Post subject:

Diane, I was up in the Phoenix area doing a bunch of mapping today. We could see the huge plume up north and the smoke filtering down. When we were over Scottsdale we could smell woodsmoke. It is the Cave Creek burn.
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Davis2001R6 · Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 5591 Location: Italy

Well now there is a fire in a river bed in buckeye. saw it from the beginning while on the flight-line today.

Hnak · Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 1766 Location: Prescott, AZ

It has cleared up now, but at noon it was hazy and I could smell smoke in the air.. Come on monsoons!
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desertgirl · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 3350 Location: Chandler, AZ

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Nighthiker · Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1714

I noted the fire in the Goldfields while heading home this afternoon. As you head out to the First Water Trailhead the Goldfields are west of Apache Trail and extend west and merge with the Usery Mtns.

Trishness · Posted: 6/29/2005, 6:08 pm Post subject:

I also saw the smoke from the Ghost fire on my way home from work. Only thing I heard was the same as Mike noted.....its about 5-10 acres but the smoke plume is very apparent from my patio in AJ. As Nighthiker posted, it's on the west side of highway 88 on the way to Canyon Lake but I wasn't able to find anything about it on the 'net or even the Tonto National Forest webpage.

We smelled smoke this morning at my office in Mesa (Just south of the 202 at Country Club) this morning from wildfires too....I'm guessing from the Cave Creek fire.

I'm hoping the monsoons get here soon too!
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BoyNhisDog · Posted: 6/29/2005, 7:18 pm Post subject:

oriole_scott · Joined: 18 Jul 2004 Posts: 166 Location: the cornfields

The smoke was bad up north this morning, too. Coming up to Red Butte on 64 (just south of the Canyon), you could see an opaque band of smoke at ground level stretching off to the north, east, and west. I figured there must have been a fire close by, but once the wind picked up it all blew away. Later, I saw in the local paper that the smoke was from the Cave Creek fire...
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Hikngrl · Posted: 6/29/2005, 9:00 pm Post subject:

On the way home from Willow Valley this evening there was a huge band of fire on the northern side of the free way several miles off the freeway. I didn't notice it this morning so it kinda freaked me out. You could see flames the further east you got.
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