What is the status of thr slop over from earlier today?
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By the looks of it on TV fire activity is drastically reduced from earlier today. I have never seen a fire hit as hard as this one has in the last couple of days. It’s been copter after coter, tanker after tanker all day long, with no let up. The tankers are painting the north side of the fire with a thick heavy retardant line.
They have just a few hours to button this up before the hard winds are expected to arrive. Red flag warnings are expected to last from tonight through Tuesday.
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You can see a pretty good run it made the last 3 hrs. on the Topanga Canyon 1 cam. They’ve been hitting it hard with air the last 2.5 hrs. Not quite familiar where this area is.
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The air attack today has taken 80% of the steam out of the fire. Tonight and tomorrow will test the lines with strong winds.
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The latest NIFC perimeter, from about 1530, shows the fire got over the primary ridge sometime today, shown with the ‘Outside the Line’ icon, here. They were bombing it heavily through this area per the Topanga Canyon Camera, but that may significantly up the work of wrapping the north end.
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Listening to the audio I keep hearing SMODs referenced. What are those?
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Not a full hot shot crew. Some are operating with their year round staff
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Suppression Modules. It’s just the identifier for Crews that don’t have the required number of personnel.
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Since this is Q&A…Does anyone know or have a link to the burnover on the LAC 69Bravo helispot? Someone (I can’t find it) said they saw it live on a TV news broadcast.
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“Flee”???..gotta love headlines.
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https://x.com/BeniOren1/status/1877090448876953904
My “Tweet” sentinel satellite images Christmas day, January 1st burn scar, and Palisades right after it started. Good reason to think it’s a reignition.
https://x.com/Firewatch814/status/1878639565386535327
Can’t get the images to upload here.
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Wait a minute, a fire Christmas Day, or New Years Day? Then reignited 7, or 14 days later? Knowing the SoCal fuels, that would be a serious stretch.
No fire on Christmas day, there was a fire on new years Eve.
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https://x.com/effenjesua/status/1874522969529298983
https://x.com/effenjesua/status/1874411858284978176
Lachman IC
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Yeah those Sentinel pics this got interesting. Totally within probability with how high the winds were that something deep seated got lifted up but im not gonna speculate to much but its dead on in the imagery
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after 30 some years of wildland firefighting in so Cal. have been on fires almost a year after initial fire. Rain and snow on it. I do believe others have had the sane experience.
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During last week’s wind event there were multiple large smokes in the Line Fire scar. Totally possible…
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