How does one know this before team members?
I am a team member and received word this morning 
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The ordering system for Teams goes something like this.
IC of the fire, and his/her bosses discuss the need for a team well before it is ordered, for new, building fires. For established fires, many people know the Team schedules and likely rotation times. Again, ordering replacement Teams is discussed well before the actual order. Longterm fires with increasing complexities also plan the need for more Team orders, as well as zoning or splitting fires. This is not something done spur of the moment.
People know what Teams are up. It’s not a secret. Some can look in the ordering system and see the orders being placed ( but not yet assigned). The IC is usually alerted a Team order is being discussed, and in the larger situations, the alerts, which the IC passes down the Team, can occur days ahead of the actual order. In situations where Team rest days and days off are a critical concern, a resource, including a Team can be told " when you come back from R&R, you will be assigned to this fire".
Lastly, the not always reliable, rumor mill.
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I guess the best answer to your good question is that the information flow on wildfireintel.org and other social media sites are more advanced than the emergency mobilization and emergency managerial communication processes.
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I see 4 Helo’s today, good to see! Again, in the north, near Wilsonia and Grant Grove
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Hopefully enough Precip in the next 48 to put this thing to bed.
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Only predicting .1 to .25 inches @ the KNP and even less further south. Snow levels above 8000 ft. Then a cold inside slider with no moisture, followed by a warming and drying trend. No super soaker conditions yet.
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Prayers for those involved.
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Thank you for saying that. It needed to be said.
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TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Authorities have given an update on the four fire personnel struck by a tree at the KNP Complex Fire on Thursday afternoon.
According to officials, all four individuals injured have been treated and released from the hospital on Friday morning.
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I see this morning, they have split the KNP into 2 sections, North and South along a diagonal line. 2 separate video updates were given in YouTube KNP Complex - YouTube
around .25 inch of rain here in Squaw Valley, hoping they got a bit more over there.
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.13 inches so far at Grant Grove. Looking spotty on radar. Better than nothing.
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About what I got here on my side of Squaw Valley. Just enough to wash all the leaves into my gutters and make a mess.
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3 CCC corpmemberd and 1 Calfire firefighter.
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Prayers for all. Do you know what center the C’s were from. I have close ties to Placer Center Auburn.
I’m trying to find that out, I used to work at the Fresno center.
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just an uneducated observation on FireMappers seems that there is a run to the East???
they seem to be headed to Silver City and such???
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Yep, It made a short run towards silver city between the road the river but it sounds like they hung it up with the helicopters.
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