Incident Media Photographs

Smoke Column seen from a boat on Lake Chelan Photo Credit Justin Dominguez

Night time with flames on the Pioneer fire from a dock  photo credit Justin Dominguez

Boat on Lake Chelan with the Pioneer Fire in the background photo credit Justin Dominguez

Fire Fighter pulling a hose with fire in the background on the Pioneer Fire.  Photo Credit Samson Olsen

Flames in the trees on the Pioneer Fire seen from Lake Chelan_photo Credit Justin Dominguez

Smoke in the mountains from the Pioneer Fire from Lake Chelan photo credit Justin Dominquez 

Smoke on the Pioneer Fire seen from Camp Lucerne Photo credit Justin Dominguez

Night time fire on the Pioneer Fire seen from Lake Chelan photo credit Justin Dominguez

Smoke column on the Pioneer Fire seen from Lake Chelan photo credit Justin Dominquez

Flames in the trees on the Pioneer Fire seen from Lake Chelan  Photo Credit Justin Dominguez

Night time photo of Pioneer Fire with flames lighting up the night photo credit Justin Dominquez

Nearly every day, the fire IMET (incident meteorologist) will release a weather balloon from the incident command post. The instrument attached records data from the atmosphere including temperature, humidity, wind and pressure. This information helps determine how our fire may behave. This information is then transferred to the ground by GPS satellites. Yesterday, our balloon reached nearly 81,000 feet!