1095 acres, 0% contained this morning. Team 15 in place. Staffing at 360 personnel. Fire was active at times overnight. Heat advisory issued for the mountains of SB Co with temps in the 90’s. Nearby at Wrightwood it is already 90F and 8% RH. Mt. Baldy ski area still threatened.
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Perhaps. I’d like to think the fire effects aren’t too extreme, unless it is a running crown fire. The fuel isn’t that continuous up there, and mature stands are fire resilient (thick bark on the conifers, minus the high elevation species). Quite a bit of heavies from drought/beetle mortality, which is likely keeping this fire active, but the hardwoods will re-sprout.
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When I was watching the fire on Sunday there were some mature trees on the steeper aspects that appeared to survive, despite pretty complete consumption in some pockets (see attached pic). Hoping that less continuous fuel helps higher up allow for some somewhat “good” fire despite the WX. Would be a shame to lose all the old-growth timber in that part of the BDF. Pretty smoky in the IE and OC coastal basins as well this AM.
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From Bailey Peak at 1135… looks like the fire has aligned with some terrain. Probably a dynamic day for fire growth, unfortunately.
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Vista getting heavily established on the eastern slope of Coldwater Canyon. Small solace is that it’s burnig right into the Nob Fire (2023) scar which should slow this eastern spread somewhat. But todays conditions are extremely volatile and this thing is already cranking before noon.
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One media helicopter coming on-scene but live streams have been non existent this year
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Tkr 137 was on scene and departed. Tkr 3 is on scene now. Based on the Inciweb map, looks like Baldy Ski area is pretty close to being impacted.
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DISCLAIMER: Takes this with absolutely a grain of salt for this is not official
It --appears-- as though the fireline has already extended out of the bowl of the Coldwater Canyon and is now flanking/wrapping around the ridge just above the Nob Fire burn scar with relative ease.
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CalFire Intel 641 has mapped the fire at 1,295 acres about 30 min ago.
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NIFC stating 1295 acres, 0% containment last night. SBF Twitter page states same. However, WatchDuty states 2354 acres.
Last nights NIFC update: This morning, California Complex Incident Management Team 15 assumed command of the Vista Fire in unified command with the San Bernardino County Fire Department. Today, the fire behavior was very active on the northeast flank, the fire made two runs towards the southeast area encircling the 2023 Knob Fire. On the northwest flak of the fire produced heavy smoke as it continued to burn dead and down fuels during the hotter parts of the day. The weather consisted of light winds, and as a result, smoke lingered and moved slowly to the east. The fire made its way towards Devil’s Backbone and bumped up to the trail and is holding, making for a good firebreak that should help to mitigate potential spread. Firefighters were able to stop the spread of a two spotfires controlling the perimeters.
This evening helicopters will be working overnight, and ground resources plan to employ them to drop water in areas to that experience flare-ups, helicopters will also be used to drop water in the southeast flank to help cool the fire edge. Crews will also be working throughout the night constructing direct handlines around the spotfires.
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Update from last night, 2810 acres, 17%contained. Weather was overcast with subtropical flow (higher RH) and the fire bumped into higher terrain features aiding in slowing the fires progress. Minor smoke production yesterday on Bailey Peak 1 cam, no smoke this morning.
EDIT: Fire Weather Watch in effect for the area due to possibility of high based thunderstorms with dry lightning possible and 45-60 mph outflow. Could create challenges.
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No smoke production for last 24 hours. Minor hot spots visible from Bailey 1 cam over last 24 hours, but no runs, no torching and minimal growth. From last nights Inciweb update: 2887 acres, 31% contained.
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This mornings update: 2936 acres, 59% contained. Switching to suppression repair. Closure order from Baldy Village up and over to Lone Pine on paper as until October 31.
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No change in acreage. Now 79% contained.
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