Sunday afternoon lightning in the hills northeast of the valley caused a hillside conflagration that roared a column of smoke into the sky. Approximately 238 acres(1) of steep sagebrush slope above Indian Creek near Hailey burned. The blaze was responded to by local & Bureau of Land Management fire crews who contained the flames with the help of helicopter and aerial tankers.
Steve Ferguson of Sun Video Productions was on the scene & kindly dropped of this video footage of the events, combining some scenics of the dramatic early evening skies rainbows, thunderheads & sunset.
The photograph was taken from the opposite hillside to the south on the following day. Glimpses of the charred hillsides can be seen from Hwy 75 looking toward Ohio Gulch & from locations in Hailey as well.