From Dr. Daniel Swain @weatherwest about 4 minutes ago…The Park Fire is continuing to grow rapidly and exhibit extreme behavior/exotic phenomena in its plume, including strong rotation/vortices and supercell-like structure.
Hang on for a wild day with this one. It is still early. Heads up this afternoon.
The fire is now 71,489 acres per CAL FIRE
71,000 acres in under 24hrs
Spot across Chico Creek and making a hard run
Now at 120k acres as mapped by Intel ship
Forest Ranch structure group requesting an additional 10 ST immediate need any config and type.
I’m assuming you mean Forest Ranch… just don’t want people who are not familiar with the area to get confused
Spot fire in front of the Platte mtn camera pretty far infront of the main fire
124,951. Acres.
1905; Fire has spotted across 32 East of Platte MTN. 1/4-1/2 acre. Crews responding. Per radio.
Spot fire crossed 32 in Forest Ranch. Forest Ranch structure group requesting additional units for suppression. No specifics on location or size.
1956 Per radio spot near Cohassett Keefer crews not on scene.
164,282 acres mapped by Intel-12
From NBC and Cal Fire…The Park Fire in Butte and Tehama counties grew to more than 164,000 acres by early Friday morning, with no containment, and had destroyed 134 structures, according to Cal Fire.
1329 Per Radio; Fire is making a hard run into 32. Fire is east of Chico Creek. Spot fire crossed 32 above Forest Ranch
