Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Fountain Fire/archive1

Fountain Fire

Featured article candidates/Fountain Fire/archive1

Nominator(s): Penitentes (talk) 19:01, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about the Fountain Fire, a large and destructive wildfire in rural Northern California in 1992. The fire itself largely took place over two dramatic days in late August, but its effects persisted in the region long afterward. It destroyed multiple small communities along the State Route 299 corridor and was only contained by the efforts of more than 4,400 firefighters, making it one of the most destructive and expensive wildfires in state history; as fires in the Golden State have gotten bigger and badder it no longer makes any top 10 lists but remains no slouch. The article was successfully nominated for GA in January 2023 and received a peer review in February 2024. This is my first FAC nomination.

Penitentes (talk) 19:01, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kusma

Reserving a spot for a review. —Kusma (talk) 21:30, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Lead: what is "long-range spotting"? (Googling I get things about hunting telescopes).
Background: TIL {{rp}} has a quote option. I am not sure I like it, but my personal preference is not a FAC criterion.
Could you say something here about what the vegetation / forests in Shasta County were like before the fire?
August 20: " Investigators found pine trees two–three feet (0.61–0.91 m) in diameter snapped in half.[15][19] Such vortices have been recorded ..." so was this snapping blamed on fire vortices?
A map of the local area helping the reader see what is where (a bit more zoomed in than the main map) would be great to understand this section better.
August 21: again, I do not understand what "more long-range spotting" means here. The dab page spotting and wikt:spotting are both not helpful.
August 22: what is a "hand line"? (I apologise for my lack of fire and firefighting related vocabulary)
Firefighting effort: is it worth giving more context on the $22 million by using {{inflation}} or similar?
Criticism and response: "it interviewed 24 different fire officials" here, "it" is "the report"; did the report really do interviews?
Closures and evacuations: how long did the evacuation order last?
Salvage logging: " 10 families belonging to the Pit River Tribe of Native Americans occupied Smith Camp " had occupied?
Herbicide application and replanting: link second-growth forest.
Cause: this section comes a bit late for my taste. Perhaps before "Effects" might work just as well or better?

The prose is in excellent shape already. Some specialist terminology could perhaps be glossed/avoided, but overall I find very little to complain about. I am amazed that this is your first FAC. —Kusma (talk) 22:14, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]