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.
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.
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.
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:
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
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.
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:
IR from 2240 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
Continued cooling off above 50. A lot of timber on these side slopes can burn through and roll down posing a threat to vehicles on Hwy 50
Crews doing close in work around all the cabins in the Echo Lakes basin. Minimizing structure damage. Some of the ‘advancement’ of the fire could be the IR plane with just a slightly different angle when its doing its overflight in this steep country. It could also be my Google Earth not cooperating. Tactical decisions are best made with eyes on the ground by the DIVS that roam the areas.
Sounds like they have at least handline around the entire perimeter of the fire in the basin. Now its mop up, mop up, mop up.
The lower finger looks to be pretty much contained. Its that pesky upper one that continues to give them problems. Looks to be at least a couple of spots out ahead, where the fire advanced yesterday.
Unless something changes, this will be the last shot of the slop over Hwy 88.
Less intense and scattered heat and more isolated heat. This is a progress.
IR from 2233 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
*** Note *** Today we’re supposed to have the start of pattern of possible thunderstorms in this area, both wet and dry. Thunderstorm can bring very erratic and strong winds. A good chance some of the lines will be wind tests today/tomorrow. Any uncontrolled edges can have explosive growth. Head on a swivel!
Still some heat over Hwy 50 and near Wrights lake. They are bringing handline up into the granite. Not expecting much to happen up hear (except a lot of grunt work by firefighters). Not many areas for it to grow as granite doesn’t burn. But interesting enough it does melt at 2300 degrees. This will be the last shot of this area unless something changes.
From @TheBrushSlasher comment yesterday. They have handline down by the lakes in the Echo Lake basin and are letting the fire slowly creep down to it. Hopefully this is doing beneficial work by cleaning up the forest floor and not damaging the trees. Crews are all around this area preventing damage to cabins in the area.
The blue line indicates controlled fire line edge (“blackline”), I tried black but it was difficult to see in some places. Not much to say hear, mop up time.
This is the pocket between the two eastern fingers. Yesterday a larger smoke column than recent was seen. Looks like that finger of unburned fuel in the upper finger didn’t last. In addition some additional spread of the perimeter a little west of that.
Looking over the lower eastern finger. Some additional spread to the north from it. Interesting to see the fires stopping closely to the edge of the 2019 Caples burn (blue area). Reduced fuel load assists with containment in an area.
Not a lot of intense heat left in the fire (scattered and isolated removed for clarity). This is also where that 50% of open line remains.
KML files filtered from 20210909 data package found here:
https://ftp.wildfire.gov/public/incident_specific_data/calif_n/!CALFIRE/!2021_Incidents/CA-ENF-024030_Caldor/GIS/IncidentData/20210909/
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 56 entries vs 55 yesterday.
Completed Dozer Line. There are 717 entries vs 687 yesterday:
Completed All Type Of Line. There are 1128 entries vs 1085 yesterday:
Planned All Type Of Line. There are 19 entries vs 19 yesterday:
No IR flight last night. Mechanical issue.
Cloud energy in the area of this fire at 07:00:
https://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu/?sat=goes-17&sec=conus&x=7664.2001953125&y=3782.2666015625&z=3&angle=0&im=18&ts=1&st=0&et=0&speed=130&motion=loop&maps[borders]=white&lat=0&p[0]=cira_glm_l2_group_energy&opacity[0]=1&pause=0&slider=-1&hide_controls=0&mouse_draw=0&follow_feature=0&follow_hide=0&s=rammb-slider&draw_color=FFD700&draw_width=6
KML files filtered from 20210910 data package found here:
https://ftp.wildfire.gov/public/incident_specific_data/calif_n/!CALFIRE/!2021_Incidents/CA-ENF-024030_Caldor/GIS/IncidentData/20210910/
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 57 entries vs 56 yesterday.
Completed Dozer Line. There are 744 entries vs 717 yesterday:
Completed All Type Of Line. There are 1174 entries vs 1128 yesterday:
Planned All Type Of Line. There are 20 entries vs 19 yesterday:
Any Lightning Spots detected so far?
This article discusses some and mentions resources pulled from Caldor because of them:
Also mentions NWS recorded approx 1,100 CG strikes in California.
Another article, almost cut and paste from the first one:
https://www.usnews.com/news/news/articles/2021-09-09/california-wildfires-at-risk-of-sparking-as-wind-blows-in
Only area of interest was between the two fingers (looking to the northwest), some minimal growth and a few spots. The larger one they have lined with dozers. The rain cooled some areas down and surprisingly a few areas warmed up, probably due to the increase in winds. Otherwise the IR looked very similar to two days ago.
KML files filtered from 20210911 data package found here:
https://ftp.wildfire.gov/public/incident_specific_data/calif_n/!CALFIRE/!2021_Incidents/CA-ENF-024030_Caldor/GIS/IncidentData/20210911/
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 67 entries vs 57 yesterday.
Completed Dozer Line. There are 778 entries vs 744 yesterday:
Completed All Type Of Line. There are 1237 entries vs 1174 yesterday:
Planned All Type Of Line. There are 19 entries vs 19 yesterday:
KML files filtered from 20210912 data package found here:
https://ftp.wildfire.gov/public/incident_specific_data/calif_n/!CALFIRE/!2021_Incidents/CA-ENF-024030_Caldor/GIS/IncidentData/20210912/
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 72 entries vs 67 yesterday:
Completed Dozer Line. There are 787 entries vs 778 yesterday:
Completed All Type Of Line. There are 1243 entries vs 1237 yesterday:
Planned All Type Of Line. There are 11 entries vs 19 yesterday:
Throw all the lines on a map, what do you get?
Black = Contained Line.
Blue = Completed All Type Of Line.
Purple = Planned All Type Of Line.
Perimeter line changes. This is just the area of the fire I see any changes.
Teal = both days.
Red = new today.
IR from 2317 last night. Blue lines indicate contained line “Blackline”, the color blue shows up better. There is no white (previous perimeter) lines as there was no spread to speak of. 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.
Looking south over Lower Echo Lake. They’ve mopped up 50’ in and are going for more. General area is cooling off.
Looking south over the basin. Last pic unless something changes which I doubt as most of it is blacklined and wind tested. They opened up the North Upper Truckee Rd to folks. Welcome back. Xmas Valley is the only large area that remains closed for the basin.
Looking north over the catchers mitt of open line. All spots have been ringed. Now they’re trying to connect the all the dozer line with the handlines. The lower blue area is the Caples fire from 2019.
Still some open line around Hwy 88, but they anticipate this turning into blackline in the next couple of days.
