Table Rock Road Fire

The new fire located near the table rock overpass quickly shot up a large column of gray smoke and drew an immediate response from the air and ground.

Table rock road fire.

Resident taylor kemp said he. The pit toilet was disgusting and didn t even have toilet paper. Sparked by illegal fireworks the blaze burned and blackened the sagebrush covered landscape. Firefighters say the table rock fire was caused by someone lighting fireworks.

The hike itself was very pretty though and i m glad we did it but if i were in the area again i would choose a different hike. Sitting on the western lip of it is a usfs fire lookout station that is staffed through the fire season late june september. The views from here on a clear day are spectacular. It s been a year since last june s table rock fire in the boise foothills destroyed 2 500 acres of wildlife habitat.

Multiple airplanes and helicopters rushed to. The road getting to table rock is very bumpy and it takes a long time to get to the parking area. The table rock fire scorched 2 600 acres of the boise foothills and threatened hundreds of homes sending fire crews scrambling to contain the flames that raced up one hillside and down the next. A grass fire that burned about a half acre along table rock road near wildhorse lane late monday afternoon was human caused according to boise fire department investigators but they can t say.