Rabbit Fire (2023): How the Rabbit Fire entered an ozone investigation

The Lakeview incident northeast of Gilman Springs Road appears alongside the Reche and Highland fires in the air district’s exceptional-events documentation. That grouping belongs to an air-quality analysis; CAL FIRE maintains a separate incident record for Rabbit.

Incident record

Reported start14 July 2023
Location in the incident recordNortheast of Gilman Springs Road and Jack Rabbit Trail, in Lakeview
County listingRiverside
Reported footprint8,355 acres
Recorded containment100%
Containment entry22 July 2023

How the Rabbit Fire entered an ozone investigation

For an emissions or exposure history, keep the incidents separate before considering their combined influence. The presence of all three in one analysis cannot by itself assign an individual monitor reading or the entire ozone episode to Rabbit.

Sources