CA-BTU-Camp.

[norcalscan]

0715 update: Quick IR update and a view of the MODIS/VIIRS of the spot fire mentioned above near Cresta PH. This map product is yesterday’s Ops map (with Friday night’s perimeter on the map), put onto Google Earth. Ignore that perimeter, I have last night’s IR perimeter, flown at 910pm last night, in the bright thin red line. MODIS/VIIRS satelite hits are last 24hrs, with passes roughly 1-2am this morning.

Overview

Here’s the blowout near Cresta Powerhouse. It doesn’t bode well for the Oro-Quincy Highway. Those MODIS hits out there are all 100% confidence at 247am this morning.

Big Bend Area - looks like as of 1-2am MODIS hits it is still inside the bend, but has definitely been working around the Big Bend Mtn itself.

IR Interpreters notes accompanying last night’s IR flight data:
Very minimal heat perimeter growth occurred compared to previous day. The heat perimeter continues to progress north and has passed Dogwood Creek near Hwy 70, has reached the Fall Creek Drainage, and continues to progress toward East China Point. Intense heat is present all along the northern edge of the heat perimeter. The heat perimeter continues to progress east towards Big Bend Mountain, with intense heat present along the edge. A pocket of Scattered heat remains near Hwy 149 and Dry Creek, with a pocket of intense heat still present southeast of the Durham Pentz Road and Clark Road intersection. Pockets of intense heat are present near Doe Mill and Nimshew Ridge, with continued perimeter occurring. The heat perimeter still remains to the east of Hwy 32. Intense heat is present near Paradise Lake and has cross Little Butte Creek and is beginning to encroach on residential areas near Rosewood Drive and Woodward Drive. A significant amount of scattered heat remains throughout the interior of the heat perimeter.

[fire955]

Sunday 11/11 0600hrs 209 Info:

109,000 Acres @ 25% Containment

Residences Destroyed - 6,453
Commercial Property Destroyed - 260
Sadly, Fatalities Increased to 23

Critical Resources Needed:
4 - Alpha Strike Teams
4 - Charlie Strike Teams
1- OPBD
8-DIVS
6-HEQB

Total Personnel Assigned - 4,050

Remarks: CALFIRE IMT4 will enter Unified Command with USFS IC Griffin

[norcalscan]

0930: Great news Air Attack and Helco are up and was able to sneak 4 heavy copters up out of Oroville Helibase through limited visibility and will be working Divs D big bend, Y cresta, N magalia and K doe mill ridge. Those are the only spots they can get in with the smoke at the moment.

Sounds like they’ll get fixed wing to work the entire Branch 1 piece and what blew out early this morning. AA was telling Lead plane in briefing that if they don’t keep up and catch the blow out, it will outflank Lake Oroville to the south.

AA, Lead, and Ops Manager in a copter will be discussing their plan over Branch 1 here shortly 10-1030am
edit: I’m off intel until around 130pm

[TemptorSent]

AA ordering 2 VLATs and 5 Type-1 Tankers.

[Rangercurt]

VLATs 912 & 944 just departed heading north from McClellen at 12:34 pm.

[fishcop]

Spot fire across Lake Oroville on Goat Point, Div D. From the latest satellite pass, looks like its making a good run to the east in Div A as well.

[norcalscan]

Thanks @fishcop, did you hear any ground truth to the spot at Goat Point, or just the MODIS hit? The confidence on those hits are high but not 100%. It’s a pretty significant ravine in there at the lake and MODIS can catch reflected heat off the opposite wall of the ravine.

That spot at Encina Grande Rd below Bloomer is significant as well, but only at 70% confidence.

[Jimw360]

I heard it was reported by a park ranger

[fishcop]

@norcalscan, that was overheard on the scanner, sounded like someone who was “boots on the ground” had eyes on it. The MODIS hit seems to confirm it.

Edit: Just confirmed by Div D

2nd Edit: Jumped the gun, Div D is reporting a separate spot across the lake from the spot on Goat Point. Scanner is very scratchy, but I believe that’s what he stated.

Update: First spot is confirmed by helicopter at 150 acres, still contained to the peninsula. Still trying to determine if there is a 2nd spot.

[Dilly]

That’s what I heard too.

[gillis]

Quick Look into the Feather River Canyon activity last night. There were areas receiving 50+ mph an hour winds, strong enough in spots to hold the truck’s door closed.

[norcalscan]

1545 update: Getting ground reports with air confirmation and MODIS that it’s spotted onto the Bloomer side around Section 13 on the Ops map. Going to try and work with two copters to keep it in check while they get ground resources in there. They’ll get the tankers working up near the top near the communications site.

The Goat Point spots appear to have had the attention of the copter on the peninsula with all the high tension power lines and Rocky peak, but then either got smoked out or moved to Bridge Dip area. All the focus has moved to the Bloomer side now.

[Jimw360]

At the end of flight time, airtac did not feel the line would hold on Bloomer…could be a interesting evening/night

[9270]

BCSO just confirmed 29 lives lost

[Exsmokey]

Per Cal Fire 0700 update the Camp Fire went to unified command with the USFS as of 0700 today. Maybe we will get some decent maps if this fire gets listed on InciWeb.

My heart aches for those who have lost loved ones on these fires. I’m hoping and praying that no more bodies are found. Terrible.

[fishcop]

Maps are available here:

https://ftp.nifc.gov/public/incident_specific_data/calif_n/!CALFIRE/2018_Incidents/CA-BTU-016737_Camp/GIS/Products/

[SmokeyBehr]

Mapping flights are up over the fire: N149Z and “ALLIED1” are flying patterns over the fire area.

[fishcop]

New IR map is up:

20181112_Camp_IR_map_11x17_topo.pdf

[pyrogeography]

Here are Google Earth maps with last night’s IR. Sorry to be out of the action, everyone, this fire has us all spread out across the landscape.

[norcalscan]

0745 Update: Yesterday afternoon into the evening became a pretty big mess down in the Cherokee and Bloomer pieces of Lake Oroville.

Map data is today’s Ops Map overlaid onto Google Earth, with IR data from 6:48pm Sunday night, and MODIS/VIIRS hits from the last 24hrs with the most recent passes around 0200 this morning.

Most MODIS/VIIRS data here in Div E, QQ and D is at 100% confidence at 0200 this morning. The farthest hits south in Section 3 on the Cherokee side are much lower confidence, and with wind direction probably false hits from the smoke plume.

Branch 6 and Div A/Y up near Cresta, they had some retardant work a few days ago up here, and I think they dropped some more yesterday. Ground is trying to hold it in Y along Dixie Rd. The P-Line along Branch 1 is their contingency (probably primary at this point).

Div K - the stubborn piece on the NW side just below Hwy 32 around Santos Ranch Rd. Carving out primary and contingency lines to keep spread in check to the north and west. MODIS/VIIRS confidence hits here are lower.