"Firefighters at the Idaho National Laboratory are battling a range fire that has burned more than 47-square-miles and prompted the evacuation of employees.
INL officials say today's blaze got to within 300 yards of a mothballed test facility near the lab's Materials and Fuels Complex. Only essential employees are being asked to report to work at the complex on Wednesday.
Winds gusting up to 55 miles per hour were pushing the fire northeast toward Mud Lake Tuesday evening.
Shortly after the fire was discovered, all personnel at the lab's Power Burst Facility and two other units were evacuated.
The INL complex stretches across an 890-square-mile federal reserve and is located about 15 miles north of Idaho Falls. "
When we walked outside of the apartment we thought we had entered into a movie where a terrible monster was about to strike us while others conversed who's sinning caused this dark cloud of smoke to cover Rexburg. Everybody went outside to take pictures of the sky. It was actually really weird looking, it really did feel like a dream world. The ground and everything was heavily tinted orange. You really just couldn't stop looking at the sky. The smoke had blown from wherever the lab is and had completely covered Rexburg like a blanket making it look like night except when you looked to one side of the city you could see complete blue skies with white fluffy clouds. The blue skies it was made it really look weird, I'm pretty sure it would've been completely dark like it really was night but the light coming from the side kept everything lit..just eerily.
Here's some cool pictures even though it really can't capture how it really looked:
this last picture is kind of crappy but you get a sense of how the sky was all the way across
this is one that my old roommate took and put on facebook
INL officials say today's blaze got to within 300 yards of a mothballed test facility near the lab's Materials and Fuels Complex. Only essential employees are being asked to report to work at the complex on Wednesday.
Winds gusting up to 55 miles per hour were pushing the fire northeast toward Mud Lake Tuesday evening.
Shortly after the fire was discovered, all personnel at the lab's Power Burst Facility and two other units were evacuated.
The INL complex stretches across an 890-square-mile federal reserve and is located about 15 miles north of Idaho Falls. "
When we walked outside of the apartment we thought we had entered into a movie where a terrible monster was about to strike us while others conversed who's sinning caused this dark cloud of smoke to cover Rexburg. Everybody went outside to take pictures of the sky. It was actually really weird looking, it really did feel like a dream world. The ground and everything was heavily tinted orange. You really just couldn't stop looking at the sky. The smoke had blown from wherever the lab is and had completely covered Rexburg like a blanket making it look like night except when you looked to one side of the city you could see complete blue skies with white fluffy clouds. The blue skies it was made it really look weird, I'm pretty sure it would've been completely dark like it really was night but the light coming from the side kept everything lit..just eerily.
Here's some cool pictures even though it really can't capture how it really looked:
this last picture is kind of crappy but you get a sense of how the sky was all the way across
this is one that my old roommate took and put on facebook