Strike team of ambulances requested to Chester to stage at high school. 2 heads. 1 going over Stovert mtn and others towards Chester
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Chester AAB being impacted
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On the scanner feed, local resources and taskforces being formed and dispatched to Chester Structure Protection Groups, immediate need.
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Do you have a link for the scanner feed?
It was posted 2 days ago. A lot of posts since then.
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Thank you, I couldn’t find it lol
Caltopo map is behind and probably won’t be updated until after 1700 West coast time.
I added wind overlay lines. 26 mph gusts at 1400 are driving the heads right north into this area, out of 196 degrees S-SW.
https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=40.27823,-121.2482&z=11&b=t&o=f16a%2Cr&n=1,0.25&a=mba%2Cfire%2Cmodis_mp%2Cwxd_wspd-01
Refresh later tonight.
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Just got off the phone with my brother, who is working the fire in Chester. He said that the fire made a hard push to airport road, but no structures lost. Now it is burning through the junkyard across from the airport and out behind collins. He said that aside from cedar chalet there are no structures lost at this point. They will be setting up to do structure protection in martin ranch next.
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The fire is approaching Greenville High School
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Thank you.
False-color long-wave IR mosaic from the latest Courtney Aviation pass on ftp.wildfire.gov (1850): CalTopo - Backcountry Mapping Evolved
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Here’s a few of the many pictures from my office of the moment when I decided it was time to leave (In retrospect, I’m still sure it would have been physically safe to stay … but there are limits):
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XCZ 2326C LG Type 3 strike team returned this afternoon from the Dixie…dispatched to return at 19:08 per the dispatch respond code 3
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Caltopo has been updated, but behind by 3 hours, zoom in/out and pan around.
Kinda hard to get detail and the entire fire on one page. Placed wind direction and
average speed green lines overlay.
https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=40.20796,-121.10842&z=11&b=t&o=f16a%2Cr&n=1,0.31&a=mba%2Csf%2Cfire%2Cmodis_mp%2Cwxd_wspd-03
Chester RAW has gusts 9-22mph (last four hours)… still strong winds out of the south.
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