Is there a good scanner for this fire , I found a couple . One doesn’t seem to have Dixie Comms and the other I hear Butte SO traffic
Well, that depends on where you are. In Chester, visibility just plummeted to fairly smoky half-mile, maybe out to a mile to make out large, dark objects like treelines. The Air Attack and the SEATs left a little while ago during semi-clarity, but I seriously doubt they’re coming back today, not without a drastic change in the wind.
The smoke is actually even worse than during the North Complex, and that’s saying a lot. Still not as bad as the Chips Fire, when it was literally raining chunks of burnt cinder and large flakes of white ash (more of a gentle shower of very fine ash right now).
Quick and dirty before and after, with the bottom pic about five minutes ago:
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Seeing on Facebook that the fire jumped Hwy 70 and is now burning on the south side of the canyon.
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We do an Air Swap With Lake Almanor. In the Morning Paradise looks like a soupy mess. By afternoon when the wind picks up Almanor socks in and Paradise is clear. Every day for the last 4 days like clock work. at the 11’s AM and PM
Looks like they are hitting it hard. Look at the trail of one of the tankers and you can see where it jumped 70… Looks like around rock creek camp and Bucks creek. It has a straight shot at Bald Eagle Mt and Bucks Lake . there are a heck of a lot of tankers and AA at the same time… must be crazy up there
Here is a shot from Paradise Lake about 30 minutes ago
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Hi SIXONENINE
Can you reference your source for “Mandatory Evacuation Alert for the communities of Bucks Lake…”? I’m looking at Plumas County Sheriff Facebook page, post as of 12:30 PM today, mentions no order or warning about Bucks Lake, just the older High Lakes order and newer Hwy 70 corridor order.
Updated 21 minutes ago on their Facebook.
It has alignment with slope, hot slopes, and upcanyon winds to really blast up the south side of Bald Eagle Mtn if it gets on that slope. Bald Eagle Mtn is little green icon east of Tobin on the map.
Here is a map showing location of 2020 Bear Fire.
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Thank you! I guess they were a bit slow to get it on their Facebook page and must have posted it just a few minutes after I looked.
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Also adding new evacuations on the north-west side of the fire
Butte County Sheriff
@ButteSheriff
](https://twitter.com/ButteSheriff)
EVACUATION ORDER
7.18.21 4:00 p.m.
The Butte County Sheriff’s Office is issuing an EVACUATION ORDER for Jonesville and Philbrook areas, due to a wildfire burning in the area.
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I am watching this thing blow up… in the last 15 minutes
this is pretty close to what I am watching from my back yard. Thing just went big in a matter of minutes… scary awesome. It got some altitude to it too fast to be good. Pictures from Flea Mt around 17:00 are imposing Tankers fly over every few minutes , C130 just buzzed us…
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http://www.alertwildfire.org/shastamodoc/index.html?camera=Axis-FleaMtn&v=81e002f
From Flea Mtn camera. Things don’t seem to be going well…
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Per AA: Well established on S. Side of HWY 70, past Grizzly Forebay and Rogers flat.
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