Today’s Branch 10 Ops Map:
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Liberty Power has a WX station east of the airport on their transmission line in the northern half of Sec 14. (Northwest “base” of Trimmer Mtn, at 6500ft) Has a 10min resolution like PGE stations.
Currently giving good indicator of conditions on the left flank of the GOES heat signature there pushing towards NV. Currently at 76F, I’m sure it’ll be a good canary to tell if flames reach that site.
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Here is a 4:45pm IR map of the fire from FIRIS project.
No fire spread visible in the flats. The slopover northeasst of Kyburz wasn’t very noticable at that time. No major spots showing north of Ralston Peak, either.
Video briefing here: Caldor Fire - 8/31/2021 Evening Update - YouTube
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204,390 acres 20% containment
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KML files filtered from 20210901 data package found here:
https://ftp.wildfire.gov/public/incident_specific_data/calif_n/!CALFIRE/!2021_Incidents/CA-ENF-024030_Caldor/GIS/IncidentData/20210901/
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:
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False-color long-wave IR images from today’s Sentinel pass at 12pm. With frequent IR flights, these aren’t really useful for perimeter updates, but they do provide a qualitative view unburned areas and fire activity: CalTopo - Backcountry Mapping Evolved.
Wright’s lake:
Tahoe basin:
Kirkwood:
Echo lake / summit:
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From the overnight IR
Spread south of SLT, looking SE
Spread into the Echo Lakes basin, looking south
Slop over the northern line above 50, looking north
Small spot near Lake Aloha
Spread to the east, north of Kirkwood, looking west
Spread near Silver Lake looking west
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KML files filtered from 20210902 data package found here:
https://ftp.wildfire.gov/public/incident_specific_data/calif_n/!CALFIRE/!2021_Incidents/CA-ENF-024030_Caldor/GIS/IncidentData/20210902/
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:
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Latest IR from 11 this morning show relatively little increase in acreage from prev. If I am intepreting it correct 
they have a good amount of some type of line in on the north side as there shows no spread in more than 2/3 (swag) of the line. Most of the increase is on the east and wrapping around on the south in SLT and in the Kirkwood area. And again, those look to be relatively small.
Also looked like the pockets SE of White Hall and SE of Kyburz burned out.
Curious if anyone who has eyes on it could describe what they’re seeing in SLT, cameras are too smoky.
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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:
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
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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)
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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”
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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.
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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:
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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:
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