West of Ojai - Santa Ana Road / SR 150 at Lake Casitas
Foothill 1 cam:
http://www.alertwildfire.org/centralcoast/index.html?camera=Axis-Foothill1&v=fd40728
VNC CMD 8
VNC A/G
VNC TAC 9
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A few more angles:
Rincon 1
http://www.alertwildfire.org/centralcoast/index.html?camera=Axis-Rincon1&v=fd40728
Red Mtn 1
http://www.alertwildfire.org/orangecoca/index.html?camera=Axis-KHAY1&v=fd40728
Aircraft line up thus far:
AA12, T74, T91, Copter 2, Copter 7
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http://beta.alertwildfire.org/orangecoca/?camera=Axis-KHAY1
Here’s another one. It’s catching heavy fuel and taking off. Heading to the forest.
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The Fire is the Casitas Incident. Unified with VNC and LPF at this time however it is a Fed Fire
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It looks like it is burning in the river bottom, not much heavy fuel since the Thomas. Smoke is still light in color and from the other angles going straight up.
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Big wind shift.
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It looks like the north wind is taken over at higher altitude in the smoke column. It may get down to ground level as the night goes on.
This area has areas of heavy fuel that was not consumed in the Thomas fire, and it is not in a river bed.
It looks like it was in the creek bed, having been at the Thomas, in that specific area( the Ojai Donut) much of that did burn. If you look on the slope… you can see the burn scar… so it was impacted by the Thomas…
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http://www.alertwildfire.org/orangecoca/index.html?camera=Axis-Rincon1&v=fd40728
Based on now…
Column is lazy and wide…
Column is going straight up and the atmosphere is stable… notice the capped smoke.
Smoke column is not sheared off, but rather spreading out laterally. Certainly could come under a wind influence later, as the SB front country is prone to that and it has been highlighted for tonight and tomorrow. However, the ridge separating the counties near Juncal runs east/west… so that would reduce that impact.
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Pretty calm here about 3 miles from the fire. 90 degrees, 39% RH, winds at 4 out of SE
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Night flying air attack requested…
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