Hard to tell with all the ghost targets you get with ADS-B Exchange, but it looks like they are going to have Spartan 620 pretty soon. I also spotted Guard 820 near Mather, but I have no other info. I’d rather think if its CalGuard, they’d maybe want to bring a CH47, or the like.
This definitely looks like Spartan 620 and CalFire 606 are getting ready to do something. Again, no info on whether these are evac or buckets.
The airport thermal 1hr time-lapse shows rate of spread very well
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/2591
Richardson Structure Group reporting down canyon winds now
Yes, 30 STE’s of any type plus 30 Dozers and 44 Hand Crews. All by IC to Oroville.
Caltopo is 3hrs. behind on loading the heat signatures from VIIRs and MODIS satellites :
But its a start to the location of the fire and spread direction… interactive, zoom in and out, add or remove layers on right side menus
Base layer I used USFS topographic map (this is a map for the location of heat on a topo map)
606 Helco. 620 unknown to me.
For those that would like an easy " tile console" view of all cameras in the currently effected area.
Anyone hearing fills on the 30 ST?
Spartan 620 is probably a bucket. CalGuard has 2 NVG Chinooks on standby for nighttime evac, if they are needed. LACFD QRF NVGs are at the Apache Fire, right now.
From the post on CalFire’s website, 1500 acres at 20:55
Link to the details page for the fire, has crude map of spread towards the north? :
https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2024/7/24/park-fire/
Per Richardson Structure Group Fire is burning downhill to the West, should be hitting Richardson Springs and Cohasset Rd in about an hour. Getting ready to put some new evacs up
How so you know which ones are thermal?
Looks Guard820 made it up there from Mather. Probably another NVG bucket.
This is a major WAG, but here is where it could be as of about now.
Pretty solid on the south flank and origin, and the NE flank was pretty evident from the edge of the foothills. Spot across Cohasset Road based on scanner traffic, and major growth up Mud Creek is a guess based on the size of the column - it had to have gobbled a big slope-driven run?
South flank will be fought at the base of the foothills or Sycamore Diversion channel levee.
Smoke is drifting into Chico now.
820 is on a training flight.
823 is inbound from SHU.
It looks like there will be consistent wind on it for the next couple days at least
