CA-ENF-Caldor (Contained)

Tornadokat · September 3, 2021, 4:24pm

KML files filtered from 20210903 data package found here:
https://ftp.wildfire.gov/public/incident_specific_data/calif_n/!CALFIRE/!2021_Incidents/CA-ENF-024030_Caldor/GIS/IncidentData/20210903/

For import into CalTopo, Google Earth, etc. Can’t vouch for how accurate they keep the data vs what’s really on the ground.

Completed Dozer Line:

Completed All Type Of Line:

Planned Dozer And Hand Line:

Planned All Type Of Line. Note this adds two categories (Fuel Break and Mixed Construction) to Dozer and Hand:

tumbleweed · September 3, 2021, 4:42pm

Edit: Red does not mean cold/no heat! Most of the fire, including the west side still has heat in it.

From IR last night. Note that in these images yellow signifies high heat, not progression. The majority of the fire still shows moderate heat or scattered heat. I eliminated those for clarity.

West side

Above 50

Echo Lake basin looking south

Tahoe basin looking south

Tahoe basin looking north

Kirkwood looking north

Silver Lake area looking north

tumbleweed · September 3, 2021, 6:36pm

Progression from yesterday. Green shows increase in acreage. You’ll notice that comparing these to the previous maps above, even though the fire didn’t increase much, there is still a lot of heat (FFs like to call “potential” inside the lines)

tumbleweed · September 4, 2021, 3:34pm

Progression from 24 hours ago (white lines). Very Little spread but still heat throughout.

Note: I’m the last three posts on this thread. I’ll need an intervening post in order to continue.

Looking south over the head

Looking south over Echo Lakes Basin

Looking north over 50 into Desolation Wilderness

The west end. Any of those red dots have potential to cause an issue.

Looking north over Kirkwood. Looks like a unplanned finger went south near Tragedy Springs. “Potential”

adsbfish · September 4, 2021, 3:42pm

Intervening post. View from Heavenly camera at 03h00

SOP · September 4, 2021, 4:32pm

The 12 hour loop on the Hawkins camera shows a lot of active fire throughout the night. Tumbleweed your maps have been very helpful and appreciated. Intervening Post.

fire955 · September 4, 2021, 4:47pm

Some of this morning’s intel, still a large number of outstanding resource needs but good to see as much black line on the map as there is, considering the resources on hand.

Per ONCC News & Notes this AM:

CA-ENF Caldor Fire: 214,107 acres brush and timber, 37% contained. Active fire behavior overnight with short-range spotting, smoldering and torching observed. Evacuation Orders and Warnings remain in effect. Many schools in El Dorado County are either evacuated or cancelled. Substantial damage to utility infrastructure reported. Repopulation occurring where safely possible with multiple communities threatened.

Unified Command: Type 1, CA Team 4 (Opliger), NIMO Team 2 (Reinarz) and Cal Fire Team 6 (Veik). NIMO Team 2 (Reinarz) and Cal Fire Team 6 (Veik) in command of West Zone. Type 1, CA Team 4 (Opliger) in command of East Zone.

Critical Resource Needs 12hr: As of this AM 209:

East Zone:
(2) SOFR (2) SOF2 (1) REMS (4) EMPF (4) EMTF (1) LTAN (1) ABRO (1) STAM (2) FOBS
(6) Type 1 Hand Crews (2) Type 2IA Hand (9) Type 2 Hand Crews (15) Type 1 Engines (25) Type 3 Engines
(15) Type 6 Engines
(4) Water Tenders Type 2
(1) FELB
(23) TFLD (Qualified or Trainee) (22) HEQB (Qualified or Trainee) (1) OSC1 (Qualified or Trainee) (2) OSC2 (Qualified or Trainee) (1) SITL (Qualified or Trainee) (1) WFMU (2) OPBD (2) STPS
(14) DIVS (Qualified or Trainee) (10) Engine Strike Teams 3/4/6 (1) FUDL (1) ORDM (3) RADO (1) FACL
(3) BCMG (2) Camp Crew

West Zone:
(1) STA (14) STC (2) STF (2) Type 1 ENG (4) TYPE 3 ENG (5) TYPE 6 ENG (8) STG
(5) CRW Type 1 (9) CRW Type 2 (5) IHC (8) HEQB (2) OPBD (9) DIVS (3) LIMA (5) MAST
(2) FELB (14) EXC (9) SKD (1) FALM (2) VLATS (2) Type 1 Helicopter
(1) Type 2 Helicopter, x1 Standard, x1 Limited (1) UAS Aerial Ignition Module
(1) HLCO-Qualified (4) HCWN (6) HECM (4) EMTF (1) REMS (1) THSC (5) TFLD (1) CHIP

Todays Ops Overview and Progression Maps:

Tornadokat · September 4, 2021, 6:25pm

KML files filtered from 20210904 data package found here:
https://ftp.wildfire.gov/public/incident_specific_data/calif_n/!CALFIRE/!2021_Incidents/CA-ENF-024030_Caldor/GIS/IncidentData/20210904/

For import into CalTopo, Google Earth, etc. Can’t vouch for how accurate they keep the data vs what’s really on the ground.

Completed Dozer Line. There are 479 entries vs 458 yesterday:

Completed All Type Of Line. There are 741 entries vs 711 yesterday:

Planned All Type Of Line. There are 17 entries vs 17 yesterday:

Opschief7102 · September 5, 2021, 2:17am

Briefings by both Zone Operations Chiefs sounded very confident that containment numbers would be growing significantly over the next 48 hours.

North side of the fire near Walker Lake is lined and plumbed, head fire is lined as is the area south of SLT. Caples Lake area looking much better.

tumbleweed · September 5, 2021, 3:08pm

I’ll won’t be updating the west side as it is essentially all black lined.

I’ve removed all the scattered/isolated heat visuals for clarity.

Looking over 50/Kyburz, still some heat

Overlooking Sierra at Tahoe, Looking north

Echo Lake Basin looking south, a lot of work being done in this area

Tahoe basin looking south. Head still is hot but it looks like they are really putting in the effort mopping up here.

However still some heat on the south side of the east zone. Looking north

The same on the south side of the upper east finger. Looking northwest

Lower east finger, hot, minimal spread, some spots. Looking northwest

A little got across 88 on the southern flank. Looking north

Tornadokat · September 5, 2021, 5:49pm

KML files filtered from 20210905 data package found here:
https://ftp.wildfire.gov/public/incident_specific_data/calif_n/!CALFIRE/!2021_Incidents/CA-ENF-024030_Caldor/GIS/IncidentData/20210905/

For import into CalTopo, Google Earth, etc. Can’t vouch for how accurate they keep the data vs what’s really on the ground.

Completed Dozer Line. There are 501 entries vs 479 yesterday:

Completed All Type Of Line. There are 785 entries vs 741 yesterday:

Planned All Type Of Line. There are 16 entries vs 17 yesterday:

Tornadokat · September 5, 2021, 7:44pm

Latest VIIRS along with some of today’s data package:
Red dots = Detection last 24 hours.
Dark Orange dots = Detection Last 48 hours.
Light Orange dots = Detection Last 72 hours.
Cyan = Fire Perimeter.
Dark Blue lines = Completed All Types Of Line.
Purple lines = Planned All Types Of Line.

FireWatchFrazier · September 5, 2021, 8:27pm

Please continue with the west side. There’s still heat showing up and residents evacuated…and pissed. One of your maps would be fabulous to share where there’s still heat. Thanks!!

tumbleweed · September 6, 2021, 2:29am

Here’s an overview of the fire including all heat signature from the IR run. It should be noted that isolated heat sources can be rather large. Not all heat sources are detected by the IR flights (some reappear after disappearing from previous runs).

One should not use these maps for information to support a view that an area is “safe” to repopulate.

Tornadokat · September 6, 2021, 10:07am

KML files filtered from 20210906 data package found here:
https://ftp.wildfire.gov/public/incident_specific_data/calif_n/!CALFIRE/!2021_Incidents/CA-ENF-024030_Caldor/GIS/IncidentData/20210906/

For import into CalTopo, Google Earth, etc. Can’t vouch for how accurate they keep the data vs what’s really on the ground.

Completed Dozer Line. There are 557 entries vs 501 yesterday:

Completed All Type Of Line. There are 870 entries vs 785 yesterday:

Planned All Type Of Line. There are 16 entries vs 16 yesterday:

Fire spread 09/05 vs 09/06.
Orange = 09/05 perimeter.
Red = 09/06 new growth.

tumbleweed · September 6, 2021, 3:36pm

IR from 2341 last night. Isolated heat has been removed for clarity. Clear areas do not indicate no heat, many reasons for heat not showing on IR runs. Only eyes on the ground can determine when it is safe to enter an area.

Feint white line indicates previous fire perimeter

Above 50 at Kyburz/Strawberry. Finally the top has started to cool down (relatively).

Looking south over Echo Lakes Basin. Stubborn heat. Unless your used to to it it’s difficult working up at that elevation.

They’ve reduced the evac order to advisory in the City of SLT, but as you can see there is still plenty of heat near the county areas. They are still on mandatory evacs. Looks like they have the head pretty much boxed in. Good Job!

Looking north over the SLT Basin. Though not expanding much still some pockets of intense heat.

Looking north over the upper finger. What little growth did occur seemed to be mainly here and the next 2 pic.

Looking west over the lower finger. This area has also finally started to cool down from previous.

Looking northwest over Silver Lake. Hard on the ankles walking over all that rock.

Tornadokat · September 7, 2021, 8:23am

KML files filtered from 20210907 data package found here:
https://ftp.wildfire.gov/public/incident_specific_data/calif_n/!CALFIRE/!2021_Incidents/CA-ENF-024030_Caldor/GIS/IncidentData/20210907/

For import into CalTopo, Google Earth, etc. Can’t vouch for how accurate they keep the data vs what’s really on the ground.

Completed Dozer Line. There are 582 entries vs 557 yesterday:

Completed All Type Of Line. There are 921 entries vs 870 yesterday:

Planned All Type Of Line. There are 19 entries vs 16 yesterday:

fire955 · September 7, 2021, 3:26pm

This morning’s update from ONCC with Team change information and a few of the pertinent Ops Maps for today.

Full text from ONCC News & Notes here.
All of Today’s Maps, full size PDF’s

CA-ENF Caldor Fire:
216,646 acres brush and timber, 49% contained.

Cal Fire IMT 2 assigned, Planned transfer command West Zone on 9/8. Unified Command: Type 1, CA Team 4 (Opliger), NIMO Team 2 (Reinarz) and Cal Fire Team 6 (Veik). NIMO Team 2 (Reinarz) and Cal Fire Team 6 (Veik) in command of West Zone. Type 1, CA Team 4 (Opliger) in command of East Zone. Cal Fire IMT 2 (Blankenheim) assigned, Planned transfer command West Zone on 9/8 at 0700.

OVERVIEW

BRANCH 10

BRANCH 20

EAST ZONE

tumbleweed · September 7, 2021, 3:34pm

IR from 2309 last night. Isolated heat has been removed for clarity on some pics. Clear areas do not indicate no heat, many reasons for heat not showing on IR runs. Only eyes on the ground can determine when it is safe to enter an area.

Feint white line indicates previous fire perimeter

Above 50 at Kyburz/Strawberry. They used some Super Scoopers (Planes that skim the water to fill up) to assist with this area yesterday. The results are obvious. Very helpful to cool things off, having 1600 gallons of water dumped on your line 3 or 4 times an hour. They filled out of Lake Tahoe.

Looking south over Echo Lakes Basin. Just a guess but the thinner air and sheltered landscape possibly slows the cooling off.

You can really see the effects of intensive mopup by the firefighters with the area near structures in SLT cooling off rather quickly. Looking south.

Looking north over SLT. Hitting those areas near structures in order to get residents back in as soon as possible.

Again, the place the fire is spreading (rather slowly) is in areas with no good access. Requires dozers and handcrews to get in and scout areas to put in lines. Hard work. Looking NNW over the upper finger.

Not sure if they brought the line down to 88 here or just corrected data in the IR. I don’t have info about this area, possibly if someone knows they can pass it on. Looking north over Kirkwood.

The small slop over 88 near Tragedy Springs looks to be buttoned up.

Overview of entire fire shows hot spots throughout. Most likely it will take a rain event or the IR plane not flying to see most of these red spots go away. As time goes on, their location will move away from populated areas as they continue to burn out on their own.

Tornadokat · September 8, 2021, 9:20am

KML files filtered from 20210908 data package found here:
https://ftp.wildfire.gov/public/incident_specific_data/calif_n/!CALFIRE/!2021_Incidents/CA-ENF-024030_Caldor/GIS/IncidentData/20210908/

For import into CalTopo, Google Earth, etc. Can’t vouch for how accurate they keep the data vs what’s really on the ground.

Contained Line. There are 55 entries vs 36 yesterday.

Completed Dozer Line. There are 687 entries vs 582 yesterday:

Completed All Type Of Line. There are 1085 entries vs 921 yesterday:

Planned All Type Of Line. There are 19 entries vs 19 yesterday: