Middletown.
Spot across the line division Bravo…if not caught, will reach Middleton area in 24 hours
Unpleasant terrain and fuels in that area.
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Really took off the past hour per cams
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Hops over the line towards St. Helena.
Hops over a dozer line towards a lookout.
The Napa Fairgrounds does not put them near 101. The Calistoga Fairgrounds is very small and would be in the path of the fire if it came sown Hwy.29.
From Calistoga or Napa it is quicker to go over and down into SR rather than across to Petaluma and up 101 or up through Sonoma on Hwy. 12.
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The Napa County Fairgrounds are in Calistoga (not to be confused with the Napa Valley Expo (fairgrounds) which is in the city of Napa and serving as an evacuation center.
I am getting reports of crews at the Napa County Fairgrounds.
Neither are near the 101. The closest highway is, as norcal74 said, 29.
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Any predictions for what Larkfield and Mark West area will look like with the upcoming Red Flag?
second base camp
They going to establish a Napa Zone and Sonoma Zone based on resources arriving???
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Impressed with the hustle to keep Kincade behind the ridge.
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It will look like that. They need to keep the span of control to 1 to 5. Expect that as the fire grows, the incident command structure will expand.
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So the fire now is moving east toward hwy 29. Depending on how far it gets, when the north or north/east winds hit again on Tuesday it may hook around the Tubbs burn. Sunday morning all over again. The east side of upper Napa valley has no recent fire activity.
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Here is a link to an Ops map from the 2015 Valley Fire. It shows some of the dozer lines put in then. It also has dozer lines from 2014 Butts and 2015 Rocky/Jerusalem Fires on it (blue and purple).
If you are using Avenza Maps in the field, here is a QR code you can use to load the Valley Ops map.
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Here’s a view of the Tubbs and Valley Fires in relation to last night’s IR (1am, Oct 28, 2019).
Kincade Fire has red outline. Black areas are cool, yellow is scattered heat.
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If the north winds are forecast to blow tomorrow, I’m trying to visualize how the fire will get to Middletown in 24 hours?
Have they activated a second IMT to take the Napa Zone?
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