2100: summary of the day - have been busy away from intel. Notes where I can but couldn’t keep the big picture painted in my head.
Map Data: Friday Ops Map with IR data from 543pm Thursday. MODIS/VIIRS data of last 24hrs, with recent VIIRS pass about 1230pm Friday. Green highlights are primary lines, yellow alternate, purple contingency.
Overview of Ops, black line, plus what still has some heat.
Branch 11 in the Bloomer and Berry Creek area. A lot of fire right up to completed dozer line which is good and will hopefully be black line in the next 24. Div MM fire behavior this morning was backing fire with no significant threats.
Branches 6 and 10. Successful firing ops holding around Stirling City. Lots of heat right up to the primary line on Div U, not sure if firing or wild, but no MODIS/VIIRS hits on that spot 14 hours after IR data. A lot of firing ops in Branch 10. Div CC burn last night was holding but it was pretty dirty, mosaic though the burn. They created a Div DD in the Grizzly Creek area. Div LL firing ops the fire got hung up at Priscilla Spur (mess of heat near green line bottom of map). They wanted to get a good hook along that line to the south. They’ll try again tonight. Up in CC/DD they are building some check lines way out on the ridges around Grizzly Dome into the creek and Duffy Dome incase they want to fire off the bowl there and tuck in the box a bit from the current proposed alternate line.
President visits the area Saturday, landing at Beale AFB. Unknown time at the moment. 30mi TFR radius around Beale and Chico. All firefighting aircraft are exempt in the TFR as long as they are within the confines of the actual fire TFR. Expect some interesting radio traffic, maybe even coordination between Air Attack and the combat air patrol. When President Bush visited Redding during the 2008 fire siege, he did a fire tour west of Redding. Air Attack was in contact at the time with updated locations etc. of Marine One.