I feel @pyrogeography could explain this well!
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I don’t really have a very good idea of where the fire is exactly at, but I was thinking maybe these plumes are taking turns taking out these small drainages, as they come into alignment?
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It’s called the fire on fire effect. The simplest way to explain it is to take some birthday candles put them about 1 inch apart. Light one then another then another see what happens. This is what is occurring on this fire with the multiple heads
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Air order for tomorrow 4 S2, 6 LATS, 2 VLATS
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The Plowshare Peak cam was getting some really nice, close-up footage of the fire making these runs last night on the 24hr timelapse loop, most noticeably around 9:35 PM and 2:00AM.
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Agree. Saw this in the Moonlight Fire in timber…separate drainages burning, separate heads. Managed to hold it at the ridgeline, though.
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Latest mapping mission has seen growth to 39,676 acres.
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43,118 acres
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The IAP does not appear to have a lot of resources based on the size and potential for this fire. Guessing they will ordering additional resources as it looks like the weather is going to heat up…
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Gifford Fire will likely continue to expand today- tonight. Very warm/dry conditions will result in threat of large vertical plume growth. Later this afternoon, northwest winds will be gusting 15-25 mph, shifting to the north-northeast tonight
. Sundowner winds with warm/dry conditions will increase this afternoon-tonight across southern Santa Barbara County bringing elevated fire weather concerns. Strongest winds Gaviota-San Marcos Pass with gusts 35-50 mph. Eastern Santa Ynez Range will see gusts 25-40 mph.
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Fenner crews working around the La Panza cam, must be expecting it to work that far north, was thinking the power line road might of been the holding line
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La Panza cam has zoomed into a lookout out on a ridge above the fire, anyone know the name of that lookout?
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Branch Mtn lookout used to be out there.
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Not seeing any orders on the 215. Wonder if there plans are to let it burn and management itself.
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Great work being done. It a same all of the comm/lookout sites across the nation have had zero treatment around them. Too many sites have been damaged/destroyed over the past few years due to lack of treatments. Solid work guys.
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Those crews are doing great work. However, the 11th hour is not the time to get this stuff done.
Working in the business, leadership seems far more concerned with buzzwords like cyberattacks, hacking, unauthorized intrusions etc. While these items are important they come at the cost of ignoring 30 years of brush growth around these sites (usually containing a whole lot of diesel and propane). Insane to me that a few hours of a dialed crew can prevent hundreds of millions of dollars in infrastructure damage (and not to mention the critical loss of infrastructure used on the incident) and we are choosing the alternative. I see it every day…
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Making a strong Southward push too, very impressive fire behavior.
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While an ounce in prevention is worth a pound in suppression, it’s always easier to get reactive spending in our society, unfortunately…
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