Helotes Fire

[EdSA]

You might have seen it on the news. I thought I would share a few pictures.
4 acres in area, 70 feet tall
Projected $1.7 million to extinguish

[Al Buckner]

Eddie, I saw the end of the news story and missed what this actually is burning.

[JPalmer]

An 800-ft. wide and 80-ft. tall mulch pile.

That's freaking crazy.

This thing could burn on it's for for a year or more.

[EdSA]

It is a giant pile of wood. All the big logs and limbs burned 2 weeks ago. Now the fire is slowly cooking all the wood mulch deep in the core. The smoke plume stretched for 15 miles from the site.

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

Exactly where is this? You have a bunch of people coming down to SA for the Expo/Convention and I know some of us may want to go by and see this-it has been on the news in Dallas/Ft Worth

[EdSA]

It is in the little city of Helotes (in NW San Antonio). It is approximately 20 miles from Downtown San Antonio.

FYI - On the downwind side it will smoke your clothing up for days. On the upwind side it is all private land.

[lscottpht]

The road in has been blocked, I think now, and they have or are bringing people in to take care of the fire, rather than let it burn out. A friend of mine has been covering this for the local news in SA.

[dreemes]

Very nice shots!

Fires like this sometimes create some neat effects as they create their on wind. Sometimes you will see a tornado of fire.

[Nocturnus]

All that I could think of when I saw this on the news the other day was "Springfield tire fire" from the Simpsons.

[ramblinray]

Isn't there a place in Pennsylvania or east of the Mississippi river somewhere that has been burning for years. Snow doesn't even stick in the winter.