This is a steep river canyon and fairly narrow. This is how it burns giving the conditions in mid afternoon. It had some long runs in lighter fuels to get established before it hit heavier fuel.
I would hope it slows down tonite with the down canyons and higher RH and lower temps. This will be the time hopefully punch line into the canyon. This is how we use to do it. As impressive as it looked today burning it’s no Butte Fire. At one point AA was looking to find a place or ridge to build line to the river. Hopefully tonite they can get some line built on both side of the river.
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Affirm. Been on several fires there and spent some time on that river. Once you get above Electra it gets tougher.
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From the SF Chronicle:
Electra Fire in Amador County: About 100 people sheltering in PG&E facility as wildfire explodes to nearly 1,000 acres Electra Fire in Amador County: About 100 people sheltering in PG&E facility as wildfire explodes to nearly 1,000 acres
Vegetation Fire Electra Road about halfway between Highway 49 and PG&E Electra Powerhouse. Fire on both sides of Electra Road, anchored at River. Persons at Box Beach advised to shelter in place. Evacuations started off Setter Ranch Road (North/above fire).
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About an hour ago they got Electra road passable enough to get the citizens out that were sheltered.
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From North Ops at 0730: CA-AEU Electra Fire: 3,034 acres brush and timber, 0% contained. Structures remain threatened. Evacuation Orders and Warning remain. Threat to power lines and power infrastructure.
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450 structures threatened
1225 personnel assigned
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Type 1 IMT, CAL FIRE IMT 3 (See), is being activated for this incident
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Frequencies assigned today:
Air Tactics FM 167.950
Air Ground 159.270 t192.8 (cdf tac15)
Victors assigned 123.175, 133.225 123.025 (TOLC)
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MODIS/VIIRS satellite heat detection for #ElectraFire SE of Sutter Creek, CA. Data always at least 3 hours old, locations approximate, sometimes false positive. Never rely on this data to ignore an evac order! #CAfire #CAwx
Open #GISsurfer map: bit.ly/3yk9zjC
— Objective is to keep the #ElectraFire east of Highway 49, south of Highway 88, north of Jesus Maria Road, and west of Highway 26 and Railroad Flat Road.
— Continued threat to critical power infrastructure
— 1,225 total personnel assigned
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Very early in the burning period. Let the sun get on this and warm things up a bit. Saw AA fly out about of Columbia about 30 ago. Too much drift smoke to see anything for the time being from my house. Like norcal74 stated it gets tougher of a fight when you get above Electra. We don’t have the conditions we had during the Butte fire but these folks have a tough road ahead of them. Three grand is still a good chuck of real estate.
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Current IAP for Electra
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BLGb-ntrz88zRxnHYQwCwMaFsyb7N-bE
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Shout out to the local unit and Sac team for turning around such a thorough IAP so quickly. No small feat to apply such organization so early in an extended attack incident.
Pretty bad setup for a slope-driven run into neighborhoods when the upcanyon winds start this afternoon.
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*Mod Note: There were a couple of cautionary notes out yesterday respective to keeping things on track. Today, if it does not directly pertain to the Electra, it’s probably going to be deleted. We are not going have a bunch of trails in these threads. Keep it confined to the topic at hand
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