Tankers are currently dropping around the infrastructure on top of Bear Mountain. The Bolt has made significant eastward movement from this mornings mapping flight, judging by the camera view.
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Evacuations are being upgraded to orders in Fresno County, did not catch the zones.
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Yokuts valley is on elwood.
Mandatory evacs extended to east of Dunlap road along 180.
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North Side of Highway 180, evacuating Elwood and all streets off of Elwood.
- Evacuation Order - Level 3 - Go
K73, K77, K75 South of Elwood*
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CAL FIRE IMT 5 activated
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Hog 1: 170 acres, holding, expecting to have it contained by morning. Dozer line all the way around, but 65% is indirect dozer line.
Hog 2: 6 acres, contained
Hog 3: 100x100 spot, contained.
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Bear mountain 10 minutes ago.
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Didn’t catch the designator but just diverted a strike team in the unit code 3 to bear mountain.
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FSO now working on Evacs south of 180, west of Indian Guide Rd. Highway 180 is closed basically from Cove all the way to 245. 245 is also closed due to construction.
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Looking at the cameras, the fire has made about a 2.5 mile run from this mornings perimeter, and is within 0.5-1 mile from impacting the first structures on Elwood.
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Bolt 3500 acres, Flash 1500 acres per IC on Command 2.
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Will there be a change in Air Tactics frequency for Wednesday?
It was CDF AT6.
The fire burning to the top of Bear Mtn. is the Bolt fire?
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Cal Fire Team 6 assigned
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It appears that overnight they lost the buildings associated with at least one tower. Does anyone know who’s infrastructure and most importantly, will that affect comms for the responses? I am pretty sure that NWS and Calfire use Bear Mountain and it is highly populated with towers.
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This isnt throwing stones at anyone but I am always amazed at the lack of fuels reduction at these sites. I know they are a mix of land owners yada yada but geez they should be able to have fire burn around them not through them.
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yeah I was gonna say, that’s Bear Mt. I watched it get impacted 4am this morning.
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Most, if not all the Fresno county LE, Fire and EMS agencies are connected to Bear Mountain in a partial capacity at least. It isn’t the sole repeater site but it will impact operations in these mountain and nearby rural communities if services were in fact impacted by the burn over.
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