Take the Santa Maria Way exit, it is off the frontage Rd. South and East
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Welcome to California where people don’t really think 3425 ft counts as an actual mountain. 
rH recoveries tonight will depend a lot on where your at. The gradient may go from 100% to 10% within a few hundred feet of altitude and which side of a ridge you are on. Probably should not expect good rH overnight recoveries above 1500 ft.
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Team 13 at Inbriefing. I would guess to takeover fire at 0600 tomorrow.
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https://alertwest.live/tileset/14463
Same old same old (grass, refugio, santa ynez peak) but grouped as a set. For me, it makes it simpler to check in on the fire with cam tile sets.
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It depends on the availability of the aircraft equipped for this task. Right now it is shared by 7 other fires.
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Inversion layer over the Santa Ynez Valley leading to poor visibility from most of the wildfire cameras this morning, except for Santa Ynez Peak at 4200+ feet. Column already capped out and it looks angry for today. Screenshot from the Alert Wildfire Santa Ynez Peak location, converted to black and white for contrast. Approx. 0831
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Capping out this early is not good.
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Does anyone have access to today’s 205?
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Looks like pictures from Zaca, Zaca 2 just change the date.
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I know there are critics of the Caltopo. Topographic Mapped Heat signatures are 3 hours ago. But with the smoke out conditions it helps to include this tool.
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Does anyone know the impact to the Forest service station up there on Figueroa mountain?
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As of about 30 min ago she’s still vertical with fire burned up against the north side of the station and just down hill from the station.
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The Figueroa Alert Calif. Cam went off the air… was that mounted at that station? Visible was some siding of a building and a few ground mounted radio antennas in the view too.
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Cant help but find it interesting how much the Lake Fire’s footprint basically runs parallel with Zaca’s infamous footprint.
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I spent 3 days in the Wheeler Gorge years ago on a LPF fire. We saw spectacular fire behavior. Spent one shift looking out for our own safety. Let’s hop this fire doesn’t head that way.
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Yes they are very similar, but the Lake fire is running east in the front country South of Figueroa mountain, and the Zaca ran north of Figueroa mountain.
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