CA-LPF-Howard

California & Hawaii Hotlist Initial Attacks
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State ID CA
3 letter designator:LPF
Fire name: Howard
Location: HWY 33 Rose Valley Rd At the Pedro Blanca trail
Reported acres:20 acres
Rate of spread:moderate
Report on Conditions:Heavy brush with high growth potential
Structure threat:zero
Resources: Full response from LPF and VNC
Hazards:
Weather:
Radio channels:
Scanner link:
Webcam link:
Agency Website:

#2

Helicopter 530 advising it’ll be a hand crew show it’s only access is by foot.

#3

Cam…https://alertca.live/cam-console/2142 Got a little cap on it.

#4

Howard AA overhead of the incident and is requesting VLAT out of San Bernardino

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#6

Another from further away showing the entire column. https://alertca.live/cam-console/2440

Aircraft…Air Attack 52, 1 Lead Plane, Air Tankers 105, 131, 1 VLAT, VCFD Copter 4, Helitanker 61.

#7

From this angle it looks like there is a storm cell in the area.

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#8

There was a report of lightning strikes and sprinkles in the area on the 1st of arriving units

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#9

VNC copter 4 evacuated 4 people

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#10

LAT tanker 167 off Fresno enroute, 28 minutes.

#11

75 acres per Intel aircraft.

#12

Looks like tanker 169 coming around

#13

ANF Crew 1,3,5 and SQF Crew 5 enroute.

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#14

1822hrs per IC: 80-85 acres, retardant around 80% of it, has significantly slowed.

3 LATs, 1 VLAT for tomorrow

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#15

VNC copter will be making night drops on the fire.

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#16

With the exception of a V CoFD night flying copter all Ventura Co FD resources have been released.

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#17

Angeles NF night flying helicopter 531 has been requested to the fire. Possibly to spell the VNC copters.

#18

Copter 531 has been cancelled, VNC copter 5 released for the night and VNC copter 4 continues to work the fire. No further updates heard.

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#19

The dialog in this thread mimics (almost exactly) the kind of tipping we would see in defense combat chat channels. Great interaction, good insight, great SA!

Question: Do y’all work within the incident level or support teams or was the tipping based on observations of outside channels/sources? The reason I ask is I work in a team looking at creating more real-time group chat spaces to enable much the same kind of dialog for all events, among the support crews.

#20

have you checked out watch duty?

#21

Yep, watching that as well. Is that a main source?

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