CA-BDF-Line ???

Seeing a header on North Side of Big Bear…
Haven’t seen anything on it? What fire is it?

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Line Fire around Snow Valley

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My bad…thought it was out?!?

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Dropping Fixed wing up there


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It will be awhile, it’s in a area called the arctic circle by the locals it runs from Big Bear to just before the ski resort, it’s a steep and nasty piece of country, not surprised they are not putting crews in that area…

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Activity is picking up were Bear Creek hits the Santa ana.

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AA and a Lead up over the fire, looks like they might start dropping tankers again soon.

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She’s really cranking now. Kind of reminds me of the Apple Fire in how she looks right now. Could get a lot worse, unfortunately. Because the reality is that most of that area has not burned in a long long long time. The overgrowth is extremely dense. I suggested as much a few weeks ago that this particular area would be a point of concern moving forward.

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Is this in Div U? The Lead Plane is down in that area.

13:21 Two LATs taking off from SBD. Tanker 15 and 41.

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Aligned with slope & wind

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add tnk 910…vlat…over fire now

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Looking at the Ops map everything looks to be inside the lines still.

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BDU Just sent a strike team and crews. From what I was told there is no line on this part of the fire.

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Based on aircraft flight patterns, kinda looks like its moving up the Santa Ana River drainage not Bear Creek

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Very few fires I know of that ever bounced back to explosive activity after being snowed on. The Line Fire’s tenacity is in the league of it’s own.

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It didn’t snow everywhere, didn’t even rain on it everywhere

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The Line Fire has been rained on several times throughtout its burn.

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Don’t have to tell me, I was there: it didn’t rain everywhere on the fire. And 1000 hr fuels that are already burning don’t care about a little intermittent precipitation, they will just take it and keep on going.

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Looking from Lucerne Valley

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Desert and Keller view

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