Links with photos and more information about the fire.

• Grizzly Gulch Fire map – Map provided by state showing affected area.
• South Dakota Fire Update – This site is maintained by the state. It has the latest updates, maps, and photos.
• X-Rock 101.1, 103.5 – This station provided live coverage the fire, taking call-ins, etc. Many people affected by the fire listened to this station. They were even told the fire officials listened to the station to keep track of the fire’s progress based on the information callers provided. You can listen to them over the internet from their web site.
• KOTA – KOTA TV has been providing regular updates on the status of the fire.
• Warner Images Photos – Tom Warner is a photographer and pilot. He has some interesting photos on his site.
• Deadwood Digital Television – This site has several pages. Below are direct links to this sites various photo pages.
  • Fire in Deadwood
  • Sunday Morning
  • Support Crews
  • fast “phone” download..
  • The “Feds” are about to take over..
  • Returning home..
  • The “mop-up”
  • “day 1” from other angles..
• Deadwood Fire – Photos on Blackhills.com
• NOAA Fire Weather – This site provides weather forecasts for fire areas.
• National Interagency Fire Center – Information about all of the fires

Sample photos – Click to see larger versions

Most photos are samples of what can be found at the various links above. Thanks to State of South Dakota, dvdtv.com, blackhills.com, and warnerimages.com for providing photos on their sites. Fire photos from these sites are no longer available.

Updates

• July 25, 2009 – Invalid links removed.
• November 11, 2002 – Several links are no longer valid so have been removed. Other information has been copied down to preserve the information.
• July 8, 2002 5:15 PM MT _ The fire was officially contained at 6:00 PM on Sunday July 7, 2002. I added warnerimages.com link and photo. This will probably be the last update to this page.
• July 6, 2002 2:15 PM MT – The fire is standing at 10,700+ acres and is 85% contained. Added a couple of pictures I took.
• July 4, 2002 5:00 PM MT – The fire now covers 10,000+ acres and is 50% contained. Added some more links, added some more sample photos, and cleaned up some other things.
• July 3, 2002 11:30 PM MT – The fire now covers 9,800+ acres and is 50% contained. Found some more links and added some pictures.
• July 3, 2002 12:30 PM MT – Some of the sites changed their links. For those sites with multiple pages, my links now just point to the main page. The latest reports are the fire is now over 9,000 acres.
• July 1, 2002 8:10 PM MT – More links to more photos.
• July 1, 2002 2:45 PM MT – Added link for NIFC.
• July 1, 2002 5:55 AM MT – Add dwdtv.com page three link above.
• June 30, 2002 9:30 PM MT – This page was created and the information from the home page was moved to this page.
• June 30, 2002 6:00 PM MT – Another link to more pictures added.
• June 30, 2002 12:10 PM MT – The Grizzly Gulch fire, also referred to as the Deadwood fire, which started on Saturday June 29 is only causing smoke for us. On Saturday evening, around 10:00 PM MT, the front moved through and changed the wind direction. It caused the smoke to blow towards us and it was very smoky in our area. If you looked out the window, it appeared like a heavy fog was in the area. On Sunday morning, around 8:00 AM MT, the smoke smell was still a little strong, but better than the night before. You could see smoke in the distance. By noon, with the wind changing directions, the smoke smell was gone.

Map of the area

To give you an idea of where our house is located in reference to the Grizzly Gulch fire, also referred to as the Deadwood fire, below is a map of the area. The red star to the left of Rapid City, on the lower right end of the map, is where our house is located. In the upper left end of the map is the Lead Deadwood area. The red arrow shows the approximate location of where the fire started. It headed NE and as it headed that direction, it spread wider, coming to Deadwood. When a front passed through around 10:00 PM MT, the wind switched to the NW, causing the fire to spread SE. The red circle shows the approximate area that has burned as of Sunday evening. The green circle shows the approximate location of the evacuation area. Our house is located about 22 miles from the burned area.

This image was originally found on the South Dakota Web Site.