West of Coalinga:
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A7HS advised 5- 10 acres, MROS, in grass, oak woodland with a structure threat.
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Aircraft assigned: A7HS, T74, T75, T76, T79, T80, T03, T164, 1CH, H527, C604, 20HT
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20 acres, MROS, potential of 100-200 acres
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IC not even there and requesting 4 dozers.
That’s a long response to get back there for resources…
Now that SLU has the Shadow and Hawk Fires. Hawk and Shadow FROS
stopped.
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Very close to the BEU border as well…long response times.
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Steep narrow drainages, grass oak woodland in the bottom, traversing to thick chapparel and juniper brush mid slope. No real fire history in this specific area off Hwy 198, lots of major fire history in this se tion of the Hwy 198 corridor the most recent being the 2020 Mineral Fire north of the Hwy. The Johnson VMP from the last two winters is north of this and was a very successful burn. The Danell VMP is east of the highway, both burns have improved ranch roads and lots of dozer line. This area is primarily large open ranch land with steep narrow roads and narrow ridge lines, lots of room to run south and west with long response times and slow going into what vehicle access there is. Anything in alignment will run hard. Lots of potential.
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AA requesting two additional type 1 tankers and 1 type 1 copter.
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Firis mapped at 144 acres
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AA has tankers switched from direct fires edge drops to indirect line building.
Heard them chasing spots, including the copters, over the dozer lines, right flank.
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Multiple spots out front now and starting to get established.
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The IC just placed a large resource order.
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(1) lima strike team, (6) private dozers, (4) type 3 strike teams, (3) division groups, (6) private water tenders, (1) safety officer.
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There is nothing fun about that area. Especially when it gets to triple digits outside. Hope they can make some headway on this fire. Looks like 100’s thru the weekend.
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Firis mapped at 704 acres
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If this thing goes extended, does anyone know where base camp would be?
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That’s the best camera angle. This is remote even for the ALERT camera system.
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Usually at the dirty, dusty, stinky, nasty, hot, no-shade rodeo arena just south of Coalinga on 198.
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Prolly coalinga Fairgrounds where they always are.
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