Good column from Chico in the Ishi area. Wondering if anyone has heard something. Believe this will be LNF incident
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Is this what you’re referring to?
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That’s it. AA over the fire. 30 acres MROS, no retardant because of the wilderness. A load of jumpers on order, south side of Deer Creek drainage. No road access.
Answering my own question.
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Copy. I see H205 currently over it as well and appears to be east of Deer Creek and north of Wildcat Creek.
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205 went in to rescue a lost hiker. They are returning to Vina with the hiker.
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The scancal.org live scanner also feeds this Broadcastify feed for easier listening for this fire season. Same radio, same feed. The Scancal.org shoutcast feed will be up as best effort, but priority will be placed supporting the broadcastify service moving forward.
C205 will be shutting down and out of play at Vina with lost hiker until law enforcement can arrive for further investigation. AA 7HS over the fire.
Mods or @waterdog1974 - this will be CA-LNF-Graham?? - please update the thread title.
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3rd or 4th dry winter and no Retardant on IA. This could make for another long fire season. Have not we learned anything from the past. There are no guarantees when dropping mud but give it a shot on IA,. Wilderness or not.
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Per LNF DIV 1
Retardant and chainsaws approved, negative heavy equipment.
AA placing order for fixed wing.
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is comms on LNF Main frequency?
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LNF Fire Net is command
C205 back in play off Vina enroute to fire at 1855
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Copy, Thank you. We are on the GMRS Emergency readiness repeaters updating as we go. Thanks for the info.
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C205 has a 16mile round trip to a dipsite suitable for the tank.
The hawk is awesome, the 1000gal tank is awesome, but I will always remind everyone during any fire in the Ishi/TGU front range, which is C205’s backyard and first-on aircraft for any IA, this country is bucket country only, and at times, longline only. Finding suitable dips are hard, especially with drought conditions. And the Huey C205 with bucket knew where every little sip of water could be found in Deer/Mill/Antelope Creek canyons. 
Opinion over - back to fire.
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Here are some quick maps. 2014 Campbell Fire in dark blue.
There is a pinery on top of the ridge. Similar to the well-known Beaver Creek Pinery (just across Deer Creek to NW), these were/are some gorgeous ridgetop ponderosa pine stands that had a lot of fire throughout the 20th century. The 1990 Campbell Fire hit the Graham Pinery hard, and there are still a lot of down logs on this ridgetop from that event.
Fire is badly needed in the Ishi Wilderness, though probably right not right now! The pineries there are some of the best examples we have left on the West Coast of a frequent-fire pine savanna, but in past 20 years, Beaver Creek Pinery has gotten pretty choked with young pine reprod.
Photo from early 2000s.
Large fires in 1990s and earlier. There haven’t been any big fires in this country since 2014 Deer Fire, which burned about 11,000 acres.
Fire history
The new fire is right on the edge of Ishi Wilderness, shown in green.
Cool site focused on Beaver Creek Pinery here:
https://ishiwildfire.geog.psu.edu/map.html
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Weather on the Horizon starting Sunday. Thunderstorm potential Sunday and Dry gusty winds with low RH for Monday into Tuesday.
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They’re having to work for it, today. Tankers have been running short laps out of Chico (2 S-2s and a C-130) since this morning, but the head keeps (short-range) spotting out to the east on them. They’re releasing the S-2s back to IA, ordered 2 heavy airtankers and a lead plane about 20 minutes ago. I think they’ve got 4 hotshot crews on the ground, now, but not sure. No engine access, getting set up to deliver sling loads. On the positive side, the fire has stayed west of Wildcat Creek today, jumpers caught the spot over Wildcat Creek last night.
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Susanville Dispatch just asked everyone to take a moment of silence. On this day in 2013, Lassen County local Luke Sheehy was killed by a snag on a fire in the Warner Mountains. Luke’s former crew, the Diamond Mountain Hotshots, is currently busting their asses on the Graham Fire.
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As CaptMack stated, the engines, dozer, and any other “equipment” not authorized into the fire, or that can not make access to the fire, are working on contingency plans, structure protections, etc should the fire escape and head toward population. They are there because of this fire, is why they are assigned to and counted with the totals.
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Yup you fight the fire you have and plan for the fire you might have if you are unsuccessful.
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Well what ever they are doing and however they are doing it, it seems to be working. Not a lot of smoke on the webcams…
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