USFS confirmed the station at Keller Peak was destroyed in the Line Fire.
One near Buck Point is likely also a casualty of the Bridge Fire, but nobody has laid eyes on it yet.
Normally no, data transfer would be automated*, often by cell modem nowadays in remote sites in the western U.S. like these. But fire or other disaster could affect power/comms without destroying the station. So eyes are needed to confirm what's gone on and whether return to service is feasible.
* Exception: a very few sites in the Sierra were still hike-in data retrieval, last I asked anyway.
P.S. not sure what happened with this being a new topic; I was replying to an old thread as far as I knew.
Slowest_Hiker wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2024 5:11 pmP.S. not sure what happened with this being a new topic; I was replying to an old thread as far as I knew.
I created a new topic for your post, since it wasn't related to the Gleason topic. To which topic were you trying to reply?