Timelapse from the USGS camera at Crane Flat Helibase taken on August 24, 2013.

This is edited file footage, as compiled by the Associated Press, for eventual media voice-over reports. Most of the scenes are self-explanatory.

A long-form narration of the encroaching Rim Fire. Film date and specific location is unknown. If you want to see a DC-10 just a few hundreds yard from the gentleman filming, skip to about 10 minutes into this:

Although identified as May 22nd and 23rd, this appears to be a Yosemite area time-lapse camera view of the Rim Fire on August 22nd and 23rd. Additional time-lapse videos are on mymotherlode.com where all of the latest Rim Fire news is found.

The passenger window view of the Rim Fire on a commercial jet at (claimed) 30,000 feet.

Footage from Friday August 23rd at 4:15 PM

It is forgivable for a television journalist from England to mispronounce “Tuolumne”, but how does this London reporter pronounce “Yosemite”?

It is unknown who filmed this, but many of these scenes are powerful.

Here is additional footage of the DC-10 drops in Tuolumne City on Friday.

DC-10 makes a drop in the Ponderosa Hills area (near Tuolumne City).