Wouldn’t it run into the Malibu fire from a couple months ago? The Franklin Fire?
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Sounds like a 5-10ac slop over in Zulu.
Same time Contingency East is east of the 405 prepping.
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Yes, it would eventually run into that scar, but there are many structures in Topanga Canyon and in the hills.
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Anyone have the most recent 209?
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No damage as far as I know. They have had a problem keeping the water pressure and volume adequate.
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It was burned over yesterday at about 1715. They lost 1 truck and they had to run for their lives. Watched live on TV last night.
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The Palisades fires western travel was stopped by the Franklin burn scare in the morning after it started. That said there is a hugh fuel bed to the north of the Franklin. If this fire gets a little more of an easterly wind it very easily could continue burning further to the west.
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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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