CA-BDF-FLATS???

Mountain Center

Toro Cam:

http://www.alertwildfire.org/inlandempire/index.html?camera=Axis-ToroPeak1&v=fd40728

AA 310, T72, T100, Copter 301 enroute

BDF FS NET

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Near Pinyon Flats Campground off Hwy 74. Camera has been zoomed in and is showing the flame front.

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Spotted across the road. Maybe a good time to request a VLAT.

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Throwing spots and about to push up hill.

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Throwing some spots with ease :anguished:

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AA is only calling it 2-3 acres with a MROS with a good wind. Potential for 500 acres.

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WildCAD rundown

BC 33 BC 52 BRAVO 73 CREW 5 E334 E339 E35 E353 E356 E50 E51 E54 E5R E7372 HT 1CK PT58* WT56

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Was there on T-3 Striketeam in 1996-97? Fire aligned with winds and slope burned over 2000 acres and lost 12 structures.

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Flyron - July 3rd 1994… plus one brand new Model 14 - the Palm Fire

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Looks like some squirrelly winds, right flank pushed south for a few minutes on the camera.

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The added concern is the mid afternoon wind that shifts from the desert valley and push West to Southwest…Will push right up towards Toro and back on Pinyon…

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Yes, the Palm fire made that run like a freight train. The spots landed around all the structures. Even the fire station (RVC 30) is in the path.

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That was a scary day back then. First time I saw a Sky Crane come really close to crashing from downslope winds.

Actually 19,200 acres & 7 homes lost:

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Desert interface fire
1994 Palm Fire
2002 Pines Fire
You get a 90 degree wind shift about every 6-8hr.
27 yr old fuel bed, the Red Shank is nuking like its September and not June.
Who wants to bet this will be the 1st team deployment of 2021 in California? I got $100 on Fed Team 10 before day break will be ordered.

On a serious not, SA and 1 foot in the black. It hasn’t even gotten hot yet. This will burn a few thousand acres before its all.over with.

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I believe team 10 is in Utah right now

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No way that new smoke to the north was a spot…new start within 1000’???

ALERTWildfire | Inland Empire

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Looks like it chewed through the retardant

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Looks to be lined up with Shumway Ranch Road, it has 4 structures back there with no water source and the drive in is Type 3 only with very tight turnaround at the very end.

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Watch the playback on the camera, it could most certainly be a spot as the fire was hung up in that confluence. Judging from the smoke it looked to be in an eddy effect which could have thrown a spot laterally with the rotational winds. I’m hoping that’s the case and not the adverse which would be someone out there to do no good. Heads on a swivel

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Watched from its start. It’s all one incident.

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