Incident Media Photographs

Firefighters with the Bureau of Land Management's Fairbanks, Alaska-based Midnight Sun Hotshots perform mop-up operations along South Fork Trail in the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park. 
A particularly dirty job, the crews were cold-trailing (where firefighters use their hands to verify the ground/ash is cold to the touch) along the southeast flank of the Coffee Pot Fire that has burned 12,843 acres as of Sept. 4. The southeast flank of the fire runs along the South Fork Kaweah River.
 

Firefighters with the U.S. National Parks Service’s Arrowhead Hotshots perform burning operations along Case Mountain Ridgeline on the Coffee Pot Fire, Sept. 1, 2024. The firefighting tactic was deployed in an effort to remove excessive fuel build up ahead of the northwest flank of the fire. 

THREE RIVERS, California (September 4, 2024) Firefighters with the Bureau of Land Management's Fairbanks, Alaska-based Midnight Sun Hotshots perform mop-up operations along South Fork Trail in the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park.

Firefighters with the U.S. National Parks Service’s Arrowhead Hotshots perform burning operations along Case Mountain Ridgeline on the Coffee Pot Fire, Sept. 1, 2024. The firefighting tactic was deployed in an effort to remove excessive fuel build up ahead of the northwest flank of the fire. 

Firefighters with the Bureau of Land Management's Fairbanks, Alaska-based Midnight Sun Hotshots perform mop-up operations along South Fork Trail in the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park.

A particularly dirty job, the crews were cold-trailing (where firefighters use their hands to verify the ground/ash is cold to the touch) along the southeast flank of the Coffee Pot Fire that has burned 12,843 acres as of Sept. 4. The southeast flank of the fire runs along the South Fork Kaweah River.

U.S. National Parks Service’s Arrowhead Hotshots perform burning operations along Case Mountain Ridgeline on the Coffee Pot Fire, Sept. 1, 2024. The firefighting tactic was deployed in an effort to remove excessive fuel build up ahead of the northwest flank of the fire. 

National Parks Service’s Arrowhead Hotshots perform burning operations along Case Mountain Ridgeline on the Coffee Pot Fire, Sept. 1, 2024. The firefighting tactic was deployed in an effort to remove excessive fuel build up ahead of the northwest flank of the fire. 

U.S. National Parks Service’s Arrowhead Hotshots perform burning operations along Case Mountain Ridgeline on the Coffee Pot Fire, Sept. 1, 2024. The firefighting tactic was deployed in an effort to remove excessive fuel build up ahead of the northwest flank of the fire. 

Firefighters with the U.S. National Parks Service’s Arrowhead Hotshots perform burning operations along Case Mountain Ridgeline on the Coffee Pot Fire, Sept. 1, 2024. The firefighting tactic was deployed in an effort to remove excessive fuel build up ahead of the northwest flank of the fire. 

U.S. National Parks Service’s Arrowhead Hotshots perform burning operations along Case Mountain Ridgeline on the Coffee Pot Fire, Sept. 1, 2024. The firefighting tactic was deployed in an effort to remove excessive fuel build up ahead of the northwest flank of the fire.

U.S. National Parks Service’s Arrowhead Hotshots perform burning operations along Case Mountain Ridgeline on the Coffee Pot Fire, Sept. 1, 2024. The firefighting tactic was deployed in an effort to remove excessive fuel build up ahead of the northwest flank of the fire. 

Firefighters with the U.S. National Parks Service’s Arrowhead Hotshots perform burning operations along Case Mountain Ridgeline on the Coffee Pot Fire, Sept. 1, 2024. The firefighting tactic was deployed in an effort to remove excessive fuel build up ahead of the northwest flank of the fire.