Tanker pattern looks like LAX on day before Thanksgiving
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I gladly pay for a full desktop pro license every year for caltopo and suggest anyone who responds to fires as an IA resource do the same. Having professional level mapping available in my pocket before the team arrives is a game changer…
Caltopo if you are reading, please make mapsheets upload from a mobile device a priority. The ability to upload the different gis products on the fly, like last year’s contingency map for this area would make opening dozerline much easier.
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But who hosts a layer for 2024 contingency?
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The nifc server, or team boxs. If you know when the last fire was in the area the archives should have an ops or contingency map still stored. I also try to keep the last ops map from every fire as you never know when you will be back to that area before a team is inplace
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IAA HUB/ EGP SITE
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Yeah but @NaterD15 what are the sources in there? FireGuard, Modis, Firis etc. I would say your using “mixed” mode. EGP aka Innterra is a viewer.
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Yeah my point its on a map - i started doing this for TAK i went back evey year for 10 years and every final ops map available on an ftp site to view. You know the name of the fire and year you can download it. It would be great as a feature layer to catalog an entire year worth of dozer line but someone/agency has to do the work to merge and host. This is a good reminder to get 2024 done!
Back to the fire
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9457 acres 5% contained
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Just did a Lookout Livestream with a bonus feature about how NorCal water gets from the Delta to Castaic Lake.
https://youtube.com/live/C_HFZyi7P_o
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New start, Bouquet canyon… or Vasquez canyon… Spanish canyon …units investigating. Engines see something.
Contact with RP, see the main fire.
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Canceling response excluding nearest engine, UTL
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Team Order?
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Ok just to let you know, I’ve taken you off my Christmas list!!! But I still will follow your inputs on what’s above us. 
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2 previous years of heavy rain has secondary growth at full maturity. Combined with the this years dry conditions is putting so much of SOCAL in danger. The good news is my buddy the “19th watch out” is doing some cumulus over timus modelling to predict the fires behavior.
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Blocking pattern so likely see more inside sliders, the cold air will either lead to more strong offshore wind events or back door cold front that brings lowland snow.
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