Copy. To clarify: BTU Zone CDF Tac 9 ?
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Only hearing that on scanner.
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Looks like there putting this one out tonight. Will they decrease the initial resource order?
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The people on this site are awesome, but please please please sync up with the comms shop or otherwise get this info from the appropriate party on the incident…
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Where do you see that? That it’s going out tonight?
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I totally agree and understand. Thanks. However we’ve been sent on many fires with no intel and I’ve acquired vital info from this site. So thanks to everyone. A lot of us active duty ff use this info to see what’s happening.
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Hearing ICP will be at Chico Fairgrounds .
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Agreed, hearing intel we aren’t? Looks pretty active still…
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I don’t think so, praying for all the displaced people!!
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Yes it was announced on Cal Fire 6pm briefing
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Continuing the discussion from CA-BTU-THOMPSON ???:
Down canyon winds often spill over Lake Oroville and Oroville Dam in the early mornings of the hottest summer days. Sometimes they go unnoticed several hundred lower in elevation in the downtown area proper. (Personal Experience)
I expect there is a plan in place for all those resources that have been ordered.
For example; a contingency plan for the right flank should a surfacing down canyon wind create a third head on this fire.
Plenty of dozer work will get done overnight.
Relief of some of the initial attack so some can be rolled over to a particular assignment sooner rather than later to take advantage of local knowledge.
Probably a few miles of hose to be plumbed …
The list goes on and on…
Nothing released if guess correctly.
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Night flying helo will be over it tonight.
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Spotting across the Oroville Dam Flood Control Spillway and establishing on the other side was not on my bingo card, today.
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Radio chatter earlier seems to suggest it was hung up at the penstock and they were getting a team in there to attempt tie in and fire it to have a good anchor point for north kelly ridge
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Looks like they’re working helos after dark now.
Be interesting to see if they can finally do water drops on hotspots at night when the winds are down, to really jump on any isolated spotting.
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I believe all CF helicopters are night qualified now. They just had more training. Command Staff will just need to make sure all of X’s and O’s are checked off before they ok the night mission. Key is alwaysRisk Vs. Gain. Other option is for the Coulson Aviation task force to fly up from So Cal as long as ORC, LAC, AND VNC agree to let CF “borrow them”.
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Any update on structure loss?
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Looking at flight radar, there are 3 copters working night ops, CF 607, PJ Chinook and a Helimax Chinook along with a bell 429 which is probably running helco.
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